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381. Inpatient vs. Outpatient Surgeries in U.S. Hospitals (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/outpatient-surgery.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Percentages below show body systems most commonly addressed in inpatient surgery. … Percentages below show body systems most commonly addressed in outpatient surgery.

382. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/key_drivers_descriptions.pdf
     February 01, 2019 - Embed selected evidence and guidelines into clinical information systems Research shows that relying … Functional clinical information systems can make it easier for teams to adhere to agreed-upon actions … Practices that are part of larger systems may have more QI resources to draw on and likely will need … , such as registries and laboratory systems, to fill the gaps. … Electronic systems may require the addition of new fields and paper-based systems will need a coherent

383. Creating a Culture of Patient Safety through Innovative Hospital Design (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Reiling.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - from the health care profession and other fields, including transportation, spacecraft design, and systems … Finally, recommendations are made for the design of all health care systems, including new facilities … Use adaptive systems that will allow function in the future. 8. … Systems analysis of adverse drug events. JAMA 1995;288:501–13. 3. Borden S. U.S. … Improper administration technique harmful to patients; costly to health systems and insurers.

384. Final Progress Report: Chronic Care Technology Planning Project (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/branscombe-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Inland Hospital, Waterville, Maine Georgianna Kosciusko, Planning Office, Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems … Locally, Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems (EMHS), which is the parent corporation to the Aroostook … Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems employs the critical technical resources for enterprise information … systems. … The EMHS Information Systems Department consists of over 135 highly skilled technical and analytical

385. Quality Improvement Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/asthma/qi-strategies.html
     July 01, 2021 - provider group) will need to partner with practices and quality improvement (QI) coaches to evaluate systems … Some systems with a high degree of integration and QI capacity have chosen multiple interventions to … However, most care systems will likely be best served by selecting a single approach after evaluating … Between meetings, clinicians conducted observations of office systems. … The improvement team integrated hypotheses, data, and office systems into meaningful process measures

386. Final Progress Report: Incident Reporting Practices in Nursing Homes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/castle-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - One start to reducing adverse incidents is to use reporting systems. … Improvements in reporting practices are significant because incident reporting systems have been used … Regulations and policies mandate the use of incident reporting systems in healthcare settings. … Software tools to support incident reporting in safety-critical systems. … Software tools to support incident reporting in safety-critical systems.

387. Concluding Remarks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/confid-report/remarks.html
     March 01, 2016 - Part One: Physician Feedback Report Fundamentals Part Two: Design of Physician Feedback Reporting Systems … Part Three: Three Strategies for Continuous Improvement of Physician Feedback Reporting Systems … Part Four: A Research Agenda To Advance the Science of Physician Feedback Reporting Systems Concluding

388. Final Progress Report: Electronic Communications Across Provider Settings (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/morrison-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Such systems have been shown to decrease the incidence of adverse medical events, facilitate communication … of up-to-date clinical data that results from patient information existing in “silo” information systems … It is clear that the information technology systems vary among the partner organizations in our community … o How will patient matching occur among disparate systems without a unique patient identifier? … o Information sharing affects a number of different systems and vendors.

389. Focusing on Health Equity in AHRQ's PCORTF Investments | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/pcor/strategic-framework/investments.html
     July 01, 2023 - deliberate focus on understanding and addressing factors at multiple levels of influence (policies, systems … Healthcare delivery system infrastructure: How can healthcare delivery organizations structure their systems … By using its core competencies to support progress in these key areas, AHRQ aims to support health systems

390. Final Progress Report: Improving Safe Use of Direct Oral Anticoagulants: A Population Health Approach (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/barnes-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Some systems required that all patients on DOACs be referred to the anticoagulation clinics. … Each of these health systems has a functioning anticoagulation clinic and uses the Epic™ EHR. … The first was the VHA health systems. … The second setting included four distinct health systems that participate in MAQI2. … Timing of Off-Label Dosing of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Three Large Health Systems.

391. Final Progress Report: Triage and Allocation Model for Primary PCI After STEMI (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/concannon-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - To accomplish this, we employed powerful geographic information systems (GIS) to perform head-to-head … and implementation of voluntary agreements between hospitals and emergency medical service systems … Health systems interventions do not have to be voluntary or market-based. … Getting reliable data on all of these aspects of EMS systems is challenging. … Some state health departments maintain data on EMS systems operating in the state.

392. Final Progress Report: Theory to Practice: Issues and Challenges for Engineering Resilience (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/blocker-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - Scope: Resilience engineering is an emerging paradigm for understanding and improving complex adaptive systems … ) Resilience engineering is an emerging paradigm for understanding and improving complex adaptive systems … focused on blame and shame failed to change patient outcomes; thus, in the early 2000s, an alternative systems … These latter techniques use a systems view that examines what goes wrong; however, they can be a tool … development of practical solutions to adequately measure resilience engineering so that healthcare systems

393. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/169-cusp-science-safety-slides.pptx
     October 01, 2024 - Describe the characteristics of safe systems and outline the main strategies used to create them. … Safe systems can be designed by applying human factors and other approaches to address technical problems … Systems are designed to obtain the results they get. … Focus on systems, not individuals. … Change efforts often require a focus on systems, not individuals.

394. How Well Do You Know AHRQ? Quizzes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cpi/about/how-well-do-you-know-ahrq-quizzes.pdf
     September 01, 2024 - Health systems b. Healthcare professionals c. Chefs d. Policymakers ANSWER: C. … AHRQ is to health systems as CDC is to … a. Patients and consumers b. Public health systems c. … Public health systems AHRQ’s unique authorities focus on improving the delivery of care in hospitals … and health systems in the way CDC focuses on improving public health. 5. … Challenges with electronic health systems

395. Final Progress Report: Transitional Care Medication Safety and Reducing Medical Liability: Closing the Chasm (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/corbett-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Health systems expend considerable resources reducing medication errors in the hospital setting. … As evolving payment reform systems mandate that health systems initiate transitional models to better … The findings may differ in other parts of the United States or within other health systems. … Medicare quality improvement: Bad apples or bad systems? … American Society Health Systems Pharmacist Journal, 66, 2027-2031.

396. National Advisory Council Meeting, July 14, 2020: Minutes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/nac/2020-07-nac/nacminutes-071420.pdf
     January 01, 2020 - and Provider Database and, at AHRQ itself, of a compendium of U.S. health systems (almost 700 systems … A goal is to foster greater measurement and collection of data by health systems. … AHRQ has been partnering with systems-engineering experts. … How are healthcare systems reestablished? Dr. … Secretary Azar is visiting States and delivery systems.

397. Optimizing Health and Function as We Age: Roundtable Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/healthy-aging-roundtable.pdf
     September 08, 2022 - Discovering the 4Ms: A Framework for Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems. 2018: New York, NY. … need to pay for the equipment, space, and personnel they have built into their systems. … /age-friendly-health- systems-initiative; https://www.ihi.org/Engage/Initiatives/Age-Friendly-Health-Systems … Public Health Systems https://afphs.org/ Every day, 10,000 Americans turn 65. … Hartford Foundation, developed the Framework for Creating Age-Friendly Public Health Systems.

398. Maine State at a Glance (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/mestateataglance.pdf
     March 01, 2012 - grants to 10 States under a 5‐year, $100 million effort to improve health care quality and delivery systems … Maine’s goal is to enhance the State’s current quality performance measurement and incentive payment systems … reporting EPSDT/Bright Futures preventive measures from electronic clinical records and linking data systems … within Maine's Department of Health and Human Services to child‐serving practices and health systems … The State is developing infrastructure to receive clinical data from health systems and to pilot e‐measure

399. Understanding the Transformation Experiences of Small Practices With NCQA Medical Home Recognition (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-scholle.pdf
     April 01, 2015 - Level 1 recognition rated resources and challenges associated with implementing and using information systems … Some physicians and staff were initially resistant to learning new processes and systems, especially … EHR and registry systems. … • The transformation process spurred many practices to expand their use of EHR and registry systems … For additional information about this grant, please visit: http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems

400. Available Comprehensive Quality Improvement Guides (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/g1_combo_availablecomprehensiveqiguides.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - quality-improvement/improvement-guide/improvement-guide.html The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems … A Guide to Achieving High Performance in Multi-Hospital Health Systems Julie Yonek, Stephen Hines, and … product of an effort to identify and disseminate best practices associated with high-performing health systems … best practices that have a demonstrated association with high performance in multi-hospital health systems