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441. PowerPoint Presentation
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/47-prep-colorectal-surgery.pptx
     June 01, 2023 - Improving Surgical Care and Recovery 1 Originally, oral antibiotics were not widely used Later, studies … Antibiotics and Mechanical Bowel Prep 4 1980s 1990s Antibiotic and Mechanical Bowel Prep in the 1990s Studies … Bowel Prep in the 2000s 1970s AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery 5 Studies … Mechanical Bowel Prep 7 AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Ongoing Studies

442. Final Progress Report: Pediatric Medication Safety: Analyses from the MEDMARX Medication Error Reporting System (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/bundy-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - METHODS We conducted five sub-studies as part of the overall study. … Study design: Our studies were cross-sectional analyses of a national medication error reporting database … Future studies should determine the impact of these electronic records on the vaccination status of … Our findings are also consistent with previous studies that have highlighted anti-infective, analgesic … Furthermore, several of the studies focused, though indirectly, on children with special healthcare

443. Medical Injury Identification Using Hospital Discharge Data (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Layde.pdf
     January 01, 2003 - systems have produced adverse event reports at rates substantially lower than indepth patient safety studies … In contrast to the comprehensive studies of patient safety, and our surveillance approach, the AHRQ … Rates of adverse events or medical injury in selected studies Study* HMPS QAHCS CUS WMIPP Location … of variability among reviewers in their determination of adverse events and negligence.6, 22 Studies … Rates of adverse events or medical injury in selected studies << /ASCII85EncodePages

444. Slide 1 (ppt file)
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     August 01, 2009 - In addition, many of the studies supporting these interventions comprised diverse samples of tobacco … and estimated abstinence rates for interventions delivered by different types of clinicians (n = 29 studies … In addition, many of the studies supporting these interventions comprised diverse samples of tobacco … Interventions that have been shown to be effective in individual studies are: counseling and medication … It should be noted that these studies typically included intensive psychosocial interventions for all

445. Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/recent-grants-behavioral-health.html
     May 01, 2024 - Below are tables, organized by subtopic, which include short summaries of the 9 studies focused mainly … Behavioral Health Integration Three studies focus on behavioral health integration. … Use of Digital Healthcare Tools in Behavioral Health Three studies look at the use of digital healthcare … Substance Use Disorders Three studies in this topic area focused on substance use disorders. … Two of the studies about substance use disorders described below focus on opioid use disorder.

446. 1. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2020 - PCR comprehensively studies the whole person, acknowledging that patients often face multiple diseases … PCR studies common, important conditions that are often not treated in hospitals or specialty clinics … The ongoing need for HSR and PCR studies is clear: The U.S. health system is complex and faces many challenges—including … research need to be viewed strategically to maximize their value and limit potential duplication among studies

447. Data Reveal Uneven Impact of COVID-19 on Urban, Rural Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/913.html
     May 01, 2024 - pandemic impacted rural hospitals more significantly than those in urban settings, according to two studies … The authors of both studies suggested that tailoring responses to the unique needs of rural hospitals … They found that few studies used clear definitions or frameworks for understanding diagnostic error in … mental health, but several studies of missed, wrong, delayed and disparate diagnosis of common mental

448. AHRQ Views: Commemorating 35 Years as an Independent Science Agency | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/904.html
     March 01, 2024 - Studies Highlight Design Challenges in Trauma Rooms . … Studies Highlight Design Challenges in Trauma Rooms Two AHRQ-funded studies revealed that physical … The studies, based upon a series of focus group sessions with trauma team members at six U.S. hospitals

449. Improving Healthcare Using Engineering Principles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - Diagnostic error is a major public health problem, yet very few studies provide an accurate, in-depth … Gurses and her interdisciplinary team used cognitive task analysis and field studies in urban, suburban … Those are important, but AHRQ also allows for mixed-methods studies that account for the complexities

450. AHRQ Announces New Healthcare System Challenge Competition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - be particularly valuable when results from systematic reviews are limited by the number of research studies … , or only include studies with narrow patient populations.

451. CAHPS Child Hospital Survey (Child HCAHPS) Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/child-hcahps/index.html
     August 01, 2021 - Patients and Families To Improve Pain Management       Other Inpatient Pediatrics QI Initiatives and Case Studies …       Additional Research Reports and Case Studies Using CAHPS Survey Data       Information About

452. Build Trust in the Sponsor of a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/communicate/trust.html
     December 01, 2022 - [1] These studies, like much formative research to design reports, have not been published. … The studies have been to support reports on various CAHPS surveys, on the AHRQ Quality Indicators, on

453. Role of the Patient and Family in Telediagnosis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/teledx-4.html
     August 01, 2020 - Studies suggest that clinicians should draw on similar communication skills for telehealth visits to … Patient engagement strategies to improve telediagnosis, and studies to evaluate them, are now needed.

454. Directions for Future Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol1-4.html
     June 01, 2023 - Additional studies could also help map out an agenda for implementing multiple channels of feedback about … documented multiple ethnic and racial disparities in diagnostic performance. 49 These quantitative studies … Some are more immediately feasible, while others might benefit from findings generated by other studies

455. Table 6 and Figures 1 and 2 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-196-section-5.pdf
     April 21, 2015 - Of the 185 children with neuroimaging studies, 78% were normal, 22% had “remarkable” findings, and … One fifth to one quarter of imaging studies were ordered by child neurologists, and 3% to 9% were requested … Seventeen studies met inclusion criteria; the majority had low quality of evidence. … III) Opinions of respected authorities, based on clinical experience; descriptive studies or case reports

456. Final progress Report: Anticholinergics and Cognitive Decline in the Elderly with Depression (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/aparasu-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Selection of controls in case-control studies. I. Principles. … Selection of controls in case-control studies. III. Design options. … Selection of controls in case-control studies. II. Types of controls. … Dynamic risk analysis in retrospective matched pair studies of disease. … The exposure odds ratio in nested case-control studies with competing risks.

457. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 16. Venous Thromboembolism (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/venous-thromboembolism-1.pdf
     March 01, 2020 - This balance has become increasingly important as a growing number of studies have found that newer … • An overwhelming majority of studies concluded that aspirin has a lower bleeding risk rate than … All included studies took place in the hospital setting and addressed patients undergoing total joint … In almost 50 percent of studies, some degree of patient risk stratification occurred. … Thirteen studies were included in analysis.

458. Overuse of Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with a First Generalized Afebrile, Atraumatic Seizure: Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0198-fullreport.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - Intravenous Contrast-Related Burden and Risk During the course of CT and MRI studies, intravenous (IV … Performance Gap The low yield of neuroimaging studies in children with seizure presenting to EDs has … The low yield of neuroimaging studies in children with seizure presenting to EDs has been documented … Order entry systems can provide structured information about orders placed for neuroimaging studies; … in this measure as opposed to limiting the measure to obtained neuroimaging studies.

459. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/sepsis-facilitator-guide.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - reduce the risk of emergence of resistance, although this is refuted by a meta-analysis of eight studies … The patients included in these studies were severely ill and did not have worse outcomes after the … The vast majority of studies have been performed at sites outside of the United States. … However, subgroup analyses showed no mortality reduction in studies in which patients had sepsis, in … studies that had greater than 80 percent protocol adherence, or in studies in which PCT was the only

460. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     Review Data Repository™ The SRDR is an open-access repository of data abstracted from primary studies … literature, along with appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods of synthesizing data from multiple studies