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461. Using Data To Drive Change and Improve Patient Safety Slides
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/data-change-slides.pptx
     April 01, 2022 - CLABSI Rate by Month per 1,000 Device Days Abbreviation: MICU = medical ICU Disclaimer: All case studies … Tell the Story Using Data: Numerator Data Abbreviation: MICU = medical ICU Disclaimer: All case studies … = methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, SSI = surgical site infection Disclaimer: All case studies … ventilator-associated pneumonia 73 Hand hygiene compliance rate this week 72% Disclaimer: All case studies

462. Final Progress Report: Staff Nurse Fatigue and Patient Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/rogers-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Scope Background Studies in many industries have shown decreased productivity and increased errors … Earlier studies tended to focus on nurse satisfaction with the new schedule and only minimally addressed … No studies addressed nurse fatigue or difficulties maintaining vigilance during extended work periods … level of the nurse, ward clerk, pharmacist, or physician who made the error, recent controlled studies … Several recent polls and studies have suggested that few adults obtain sufficient sleep.

463. Research Findings and Evidence Gaps in Youth Mental Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/964.html
     July 01, 2025 - treatment practices for child and adolescent mental health disorders, but gaps remain in patient-centered studies … “We need studies for parents and kids looking for the right treatment for them.” … Still, the studies in the review were limited by several factors.

464. 092-Evidence-Decolonization-One-Pager (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/092-evidence-decolonization-one-pager.docx
     April 01, 2025 - Orthopedic Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Purpose: To evaluate cardiac and joint replacement studies … decolonization approach for use with Gram-positive bacteria · Design: Meta-analysis included 5 randomized studies … and 12 observational studies of patients that underwent cardiac or total joint replacement surgeries

465. Training the Next Generation of Leaders in Clinical Preventive Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/chronic-care/decision/research-centers/rce_profile_liss.html
     August 01, 2014 - starting at the center, Liss has been involved in a number of projects, but he has primarily worked on studies … These studies evaluate the effects of comprehensive outreach to patients who are due to complete fecal

466. Nutritional Research Series | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/tr17-series.html
     April 01, 2018 - Critically explore the consistencies and inconsistencies in results between observational and intervention studies … Disease Associations (October 2011) Volume 6: Concordance Between the Findings of Epidemiological Studies

467. Can an Academic Health Care System Overcome Barriers to Clinical Guideline Implementation? (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Quinn.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - While cardiovascular complications remain a leading cause of perioperative morbidity and mortality, studies … use of perioperative beta-blockade in patients who are at risk for adverse cardiac events, but few studies … and management of specific health conditions.1 Despite the abundance of published guidelines, few studies … The prevailing expert opinion acknowledges that further studies are needed to select patients who will … Concern for adverse events Studies have shown beta-blocker therapy initiated on the day of surgery

468. Electronic Patient Portals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/healthit-ed-2.html
     February 01, 2021 - Despite the obvious benefits of portal access and patient engagement, recent studies have shown relatively … These results are also consistent with previous studies that have demonstrated disparities in portal

469. Quality Indicators Sensitive to Nurse Staffing in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Savitz.pdf
     March 01, 2004 - For example, recent studies documenting the relationship between nurse staffing levels in hospitals … Further, the searches were limited to English, human studies published from 1997 through March 2004. … The majority of studies look at nurse staff mix, proportion of RNs with a baccalaureate Figure 1. … In addition to variations in indicator definition across reported studies and lack of a core set of … We found variation in unit of analysis across studies in the abstracted literature.

470. Factors that Impact Perinatal Care Experience and Outcomes: Slide Presentation (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/webinars/perinatal-care-experience-slides.pdf
     March 06, 2025 - Maternity Care 1930–1980 1980–2000 2000–2023 16 Systematic Review Results • Evidence Summary: 37 studies … describing or defining RMC (24 validation studies; 1 RCT on maternal health outcomes; 12 studies defining … Disrespect & Abuse: 2 frameworks − Rights-Based: 10 frameworks • Validated Measures of RMC: RMC focused (25 studies … ); Included RMC elements (16 studies) with overlapping themes

471. Articulate Word Output (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/primary-prevention-cvd-with-statins.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - effect of statins and should be considered separately. 8 Statins for Primary Prevention Across studies … Importantly, however, studies of primary prevention have not examined the effect of treating different … statins is myopathy, or muscle pain, which is reported in about 10- percent of users in observational studies … Recent studies have shown that a small increase in risk of diabetes occurs with statins, particularly … Studies suggest that 33-50% of statin prescriptions are not filled, and that many patients stop taking

472. Pain Management Injection Therapies for Low-back Pain: Topic Refinement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/lbpinject-topicref.pdf
     March 03, 2014 - exception of epidural steroids), inconsistency of results across trials, as well as variability across studies … However, diagnostic methods for determining the source of pain differ across studies, and their accuracy … selective nerve root block, facet joint block, medial branch block, sacroiliac joint block), imaging studies … Exclude: • Uncontrolled or pre-post studies Outcomes: Include: • For Key Questions 1 2, 3: Pain … A systematic review of observational studies. Spine. 1997;22(4):427-34. PMID: 9055372. 13.

473. Ratio of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans to Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Seizure: Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0197-fullreport.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - A list of codes for imaging studies of the head (CT) are shown in Table 1 [=IMG1]; codes to identify … Intravenous Contrast-Related Burden and Risk During the course of CT and MRI studies, intravenous (IV … The low yield of neuroimaging studies in children with seizure presenting to EDs has been documented … in this measure as opposed to limiting the measure to obtained neuroimaging studies. … Statement on recent studies regarding CT scans and increased cancer risk, December 15, 2009.

474. Infections Avoided, Excess Costs Averted, and Changes in Mortality Rate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final-companion/clabsicomp4c.html
     January 01, 2013 - As such, studies conducted outside of the United States were excluded. … assumed that the cost of treating adult versus pediatric CLABSIs differs and as such did not include studies … Costs identified in included studies were adjusted to reflect May 2012 dollars using the consumer price … factors such as sample size (range: 12-100,851 cases), setting (single hospital site estimate in four studies … Cost per CLABSI of studies meeting inclusion criteria * Author Cases † Study Mean Cost

475. Final Progress Report: Profiling the Needs of Dying Children (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/feudtner-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Project: 8/1/2000 - 7/31/2006 Federal Project Officer: Kay Anderson Acknowledgement: The research studies … Feudtner, Final Progress Report, page 1 of 13 Abstract Purpose: To delineate through a series of studies … The institutional and population-level studies have involved subjects, from birth into adulthood (but … Methods The studies reported below have used a variety of epidemiologic and health services research … Results My collaborators and I have completed seven studies that address the above- mentioned specific

476. Overuse of Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Headache: Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-206-fullreport.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - To conduct imaging studies with radiation dosing that is appropriate for children, many facilities follow … Intravenous Contrast-Related Burden and Risk During the course of CT studies, intravenous (IV) contrast … as opposed to limiting the measure to obtained neuroimaging studies. … Including orders for neuroimaging studies decreases the potential for underestimation of overuse that … ACR Position Statement on recent studies regarding CT scans and increased cancer risk, December 15,

477. CHIPRA 119 Section 5, Literature Review and Discussion (pdf file)
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     March 19, 2012 - Most studies recommend the axillary site for temperature assessment. … Search Considerations Some resources were not used because it was deemed that the studies were too … Studies used included normal newborns, premature and very premature infants, and babies of SGA, LBW … Warming led to improvement in neonatal physiologic parameters in two of 4 studies. Holland, B. … Four eligible studies identified; randomized and quasi- randomized controlled trials.

478. Methodology | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptmgmt/methodology.html
     July 01, 2018 - We limited the search to English-language articles published in the last 5 years and studies conducted … From these studies, we abstracted information on the research design, self-management support program

479. Appendix A Tables from Matar (2010) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpraapamattabs.html
     April 01, 2018 - † Strong evidence in support of the risk factor presented by the studies included in the systematic … ‡ Limited evidence presented by some but not all of the studies included in the systematic review

480. Communicating With Patients and Families About Antibiotic Decisions – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/communicating-decisions-guide.docx
     September 01, 2022 - In a 2014 systematic review of 13 pediatric studies on parent-clinician communication and antibiotic … While some studies have identified correlations between patient satisfaction and antibiotic prescribing … , other studies have not shown correlation. … Studies have shown that, on average, discussions around not prescribing antibiotics generally take only