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521. Strategy 6R: Reminder Systems for Immunizations and Preventive Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/health-promotion-education/strategy6r-reminder-systems.html
     March 01, 2020 - Studies have found that a letter reminder system can cost $10.50 per fully vaccinated child, whereas … A review of studies of appointment reminder systems also found that they resulted in improvements. 4 … attempted. 9 The Impact of Physician Reminder Systems There is strong evidence from meta-analytic studies … care are effective at increasing preventive procedures: 7 , 10 Balas et al. reviewed 33 controlled studies

522. Improving Customer Service and Access in a Surgical Practice (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/reports-and-case-studies/Case_Study_Specialty_Practice_Updated.pdf
     October 01, 2011 - Improving Customer Service and Access in a Surgical Practice WORKING P A P E R Improving Customer Service and Access in a Surgical Practice A Case Study of a Successful Quality Improvement Intervention Denise D. Quigley, Shelley H. Wiseman, and Donna O. Farley WR-848-AHRQ August 2011 Prepared for th…

523. Webinars to Improve Management of Urinary Incontinence in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/webinars/index.html
     March 01, 2025 - Past Webinars November 14, 2024: Implementing Urinary Incontinence Management in Primary Care: Case Studies

524. Final Progress Report: Improving Patient Safety and Disease Management While on Contact Isolation (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/morgan-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - The repository has been validated for infection control studies of antibiotic resistance. … hospital duration was chosen because length of stay has been an important confounding bias in prior studies … Previous studies of adverse events related to patient isolation were not replicated when more rigorous … Conclusions/Significance: These studies have informed the public debate over patient isolation.

525. Overuse of Imaging for the Evaluation of Children with Simple Febrile Seizure: Final Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-192-fullreport.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - sedation or anesthesia, which are often required for longer CT imaging sequences and for most MRI studies … Intravenous Contrast-Related Burden and Risk During the course of CT and MRI studies, intravenous (IV … in this measure as opposed to limiting the measure to obtained neuroimaging studies. … Position Statement on recent studies regarding CT scans and increased cancer risk, December 15, 2009 … Yield of diagnostic studies in children presenting with complex febrile seizures.

526. The Brighton Collaboration: Creating a Global Standard for Case Definitions (and Guidelines) for Adverse Events Following Immunization (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Kohl.pdf
     April 01, 2004 - Formal evaluation studies of definitions are underway. … and study duration, the principal focuses for collection of data on rare events are postlicensure studies … , and 11 different cut-off diameters for local reaction size in 102 vaccine studies. … Implementation of case definitions and guidelines Public health investigations and studies typically … Evaluation of vaccine safety post-9/11: role of cohort and case-control studies.

527. Development of a Multipurpose Dataset to Evaluate Potential Medication Errors in Ambulatory Settings (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Chan.pdf
     July 01, 2004 - As this data resource has served as the basis for seven patient safety studies, it is crucial to describe … million-subject data source has been used in a number of epidemiology and health services research studies … For purely descriptive studies in which the study objectives were to describe the frequency of events … As this dataset was developed to support multiple studies, the Study IDs were not reused. … In addition, the dataset have been used for four studies that are not directly related to medication

528. Improving Patient Safety in Community Pharmacies: A Resource List for Users of the AHRQ Community Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety Culture (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/community-pharmacy/pharmacy-resources.pdf
     May 01, 2023 - Case studies are included to document how transparency is practiced in each of the domains. … AHRQ Impact Case Studies https://www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case- studies/index.html? … search_api_views_fulltext=patient+safety https://www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/index.html? … Alphabetical Index of Resources AHRQ Impact Case Studies AHRQ Patient Safety Education and Training … AHRQ Impact Case Studies 2.

529. Patient Safety Research in Medical Group Practices: Measurement and Data Challenges (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Wilson.pdf
     December 01, 2004 - Then, how should group practices be classified for studies of patient safety, and how can the important … While early studies specified the financial incentive variable at the practice level as capitation or … This distinction would be very relevant to studies of prescription drug errors, and a research model … of errors and adverse events often vary between studies. … However, some studies have acquired patient safety data using phone interviews.

530. Low Tidal Volume Ventilation: Introduction, Evidence, and Implementation: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/technical/ltvv-intro-fac-guide.html
     February 01, 2017 - More recent studies confirm that LTVV benefits ARDS patients. … This shows LTVV is effective in preventing atelectasis, based on the analyzed studies. … Some studies use 5 while others use 6 or 8. … Some have even used a PEEP value as high as 12, and some ARDS studies use PEEP values over 20. … The minimum value should be 5, and studies support a range of acceptable PEEP values above 5.

531. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mvp/ltvv-intro/ltvv-intro-facguide.docx
     January 01, 2017 - More recent studies confirm that LTVV benefits ARDS patients. … This shows LTVV is effective in preventing atelectasis, based on the analyzed studies. … Some studies use 5 while others use 6 or 8. … Some have even used a PEEP value as high as 12, and some ARDS studies use PEEP values over 20. … The minimum value should be 5, and studies support a range of acceptable PEEP values above 5.

532. Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptfamilyscan/ptfamily3.html
     July 01, 2018 - The evidence comes primarily from qualitative and quantitative research studies and systematic literature … The focus of the studies reviewed in this section is evenly divided between patients and providers. … that this number is far greater—between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths each year. 8 Also of note is that studies … Analyses of multiple studies on shared decisionmaking indicates that most patient populations want to … For example, results from a systematic review of 38 studies examining health attitudes toward shared

533. Conclusions and Implications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/conclusions.html
     October 01, 2015 - Health Outcomes Reported in Transforming Primary Care Studies There is growing momentum … However, the studies also reveal that transforming the way primary care is delivered is a complex and

534. Conclusions and Implications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/conclusions-and-implications.html
     March 01, 2017 - Health Outcomes Reported in Transforming Primary Care Studies There is growing momentum … However, the studies also reveal that transforming the way primary care is delivered is a complex and

535. Grantee Guidance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/pubcomguide/granteeguide.html
     November 01, 2021 - Contents Acknowledgment Ownership Marketing Press Releases Journal Article Tracking Impact Case Studies … Return to Section Contents Impact Case Studies AHRQ’s Impact Case Studies show how AHRQ-funded research … patient outcomes should review the criteria and fill out the form available on AHRQ’s Impact Case Studies

536. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/nurse-role-dxsafety6.html
     September 01, 2022 - SIDM Competencies To Improve Diagnosis and Suggested Questions for Debriefing Case Studies … The frequency of diagnostic errors in outpatient care: estimations from three large observational studies … WebM&M: Case Studies. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/webmm-case-studies?

537. Build a Business Case for Quality Improvement: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/build-business-case-slides.html
     February 01, 2017 - Ventilator-Associated Events (VAEs) Attributable Hospital Mortality 10-13 Recent retrospective cohort studies … Estimating the attributable mortality of ventilator-associated pneumonia from randomized prevention studies … ventilator-associated pneumonia: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from randomized prevention studies … Estimating the attributable mortality of ventilator-associated pneumonia from randomized prevention studies … ventilator-associated pneumonia: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from randomized prevention studies

538. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/update/index.html
     April 01, 2013 - and Additions to the 2008 Guideline Update General References  ( PDF Version  [ - 191.43 KB] ) Studies

539. Using Home Visits to Understand Medication Errors in Children (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Walsh_74.pdf
     May 28, 2008 - Many studies have used parent report to detect administration errors. … Three studies involved observation of parent administration of medication in the clinic or ED. 26, … In each of these studies, measurement instruments were provided by research staff, so problems with … Studies of Adults Two medical record review studies in adult patients detected and described home medication … problems.34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 Three studies about communication failure indicated that many

540. References (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/ltvv-litreview.docx
     January 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients Relevant Studies, 1990–2015 Study Type … 13 articles (1 randomized controlled trial and 12 observational studies) that studied tidal volume as … Eight studies showed decreased progression to ARDS when a lower tidal volume strategy was utilized. … The search yielded 1,704 studies, of which 13 were included in the final analysis. … One randomized controlled trial was found; the remaining 12 studies were observational.