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21. Appendix N. Part 1: A Clear View of Flexible Endoscope Processing: Transport, Leak Testing, Cleaning - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - Part 1: A Clear View of Flexible Endoscope Processing: Transport, Leak Testing, Cleaning - Implementation … Part 1: A Clear View of Flexible Endoscope Processing: Transport, Leak Testing, Cleaning Susan Klacik … Explain infection prevention guidelines for transport, leak testing, and cleaning. … Cleaning Rinsing Inspecting or testing for cleanliness, where applicable. … Susan Klacik (author), 2015 Image: leak testing of a scope Slide 10: Leak Testing ST91 Perform

22. Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2018 - Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process The tools in this step-by-step guide can increase the … reliability of the testing process in your office by helping you examine how tests are managed. … This step-by-step guide can help you increase the reliability of the testing process in your office. … Use of the Guide This guide (PDF, 4.48 MB) tells you how to: Assess your office testing process … improve the usability, practicality, and usefulness of a 2013 AHRQ toolkit, Improving Your Office Testing

23. Medicare Payment for COVID-19 Viral Testing: Skilled Nursing Facility/Nursing Facility | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2022 - Medicare Payment for COVID-19 Viral Testing: Skilled Nursing Facility/Nursing Facility Resource … : Medicare Payment for COVID-19 Viral Testing: Skilled Nursing Facility/Nursing Facility The document … includes a flow chart for COVID-19 Viral Testing, a Medicare payer hierarchy, Medicaid and the Uninsured

24. Long-Term Care Facility COVID-19 Point of Care Testing Reporting Tool Frequently Asked Questions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2022 - Long-Term Care Facility COVID-19 Point of Care Testing Reporting Tool Frequently Asked Questions … Resource: Long-Term Care Facility COVID-19 Point of Care Testing Reporting Tool Frequently Asked … Source: CDC Topic(s): Infection Control & Prevention, Testing Audience(s): Clinical Leaders, Clinicians

25. Appendix N. Part 1—Transport, Leak Testing, Cleaning: Transcript/Facilitator Notes - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - testing for cleanliness. … Slide 9: Leak Testing IFU In the instructions for use, the manufacturer talks about leak testing. … equipment needed to perform leak testing. … So, again, the purpose of leak testing is very vital. … Slide 10: Leak Testing ST91 In ST91, we also talk about leak testing, and it pretty much mirrors

26. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2024 - Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Introduction Background Diagnostic Error in the Testing … experts to reduce errors in the testing process and, by extension, the diagnostic process. … Diagnostic stewardship has been applied to improve testing for a number of conditions. … Beyond these current applications, any disease known to be misdiagnosed due to problems in the total testing … Given the pivotal role of diagnostic testing in medicine, programs and initiatives to reduce diagnostic

27. Timeliness of Confirmatory Testing for Sickle Cell Disease (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-132-fullreport.pdf
    January 23, 2017 - Timeliness of Confirmatory Testing for Sickle Cell Disease Timeliness of Confirmatory Testing for Sickle … Measure Name Timeliness of Confirmatory Testing for Sickle Cell Disease 1.B. … and the proportion of families who learn the results of that testing. … The efficacy of ensuring timely confirmatory testing is unknown. 3.B. … If so, in what health IT system was it tested and what were the results of testing?

28. Background | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2024 - Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Introduction Background Diagnostic Error in the Testing … bedside and the expertise and knowledge resources available to guide appropriate use of diagnostic testing … to one’s care.” 22 Diagnostic stewardship comprises a variety of interventions to optimize use of testing … directly or indirectly through collaborations between clinicians and diagnostic testing experts.  … and anatomic pathology diagnostic services, stewardship can be applied to other types of diagnostic testing

29. Opportunities and Challenges Ahead | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2024 - Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Introduction Background Diagnostic Error in the Testing … Conditions that are known to be frequently misdiagnosed and have testing-related contributing factors … diagnoses of systemic lupus erythematosus based on misinterpretation of antinuclear antibody (ANA) testing … . 95 While interventions have been developed to reduce inappropriate use of ANA testing and followup … testing, 96,97 it is less clear whether they ultimately reduce the occurrence of false positive diagnoses

30. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2024 - Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Introduction Background Diagnostic Error in the Testing … . 1,2 In several comprehensive analyses of diagnostic errors, problems with the testing process (including … contrast to clinical reasoning errors (e.g., failure to consider alternative hypotheses), 1-4 , 6,7 testing … and guide best clinical actions. 10,12,13 Applying diagnostic stewardship beyond infectious disease testing … that focuses on applying a multidisciplinary, data-driven approach to the broader scope of diagnostic testing

31. Chapter 4. Developing and Pilot Testing Change: Implementing the Medication Reconciliation Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Developing and Pilot Testing Change: Implementing the Medication Reconciliation Process Previous … Developing and Pilot Testing Change: Implementing the Medication Reconciliation Process Chapter 5. … There are many potential settings for pilot testing. … The process should continue to be enhanced and the pilot testing expanded as appropriate. … Just like pilot testing, there are several different strategies to roll out the process.

32. Chapter 4. Developing and Pilot Testing Change: Implementing the Medication Reconciliation Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Developing and Pilot Testing Change: Implementing the Medication Reconciliation Process Previous … Developing and Pilot Testing Change: Implementing the Medication Reconciliation Process Chapter 5. … There are many potential settings for pilot testing. … The process should continue to be enhanced and the pilot testing expanded as appropriate. … Just like pilot testing, there are several different strategies to roll out the process.

33. Final Progress Report: Risk Assessment of the Testing Processes of Access Community Health Network (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - This project documented laboratory testing processes for in-house and off-site testing. … Methods The comprehensive risk assessment of ACCESS testing processes examined the testing process … reduce errors within the testing process. … Improving the Testing Process in Primary Care Practice. … Improving the Testing Process in Primary Care Practice.

34. Final Progress Report: Patient Safety and the Primary Care Testing Process (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Patient Safety and the Primary Care Testing Process Final Report 1. … Title page Patient Safety and the Primary Care Testing Process PI: Nancy C. … Creating safety in the testing process in primary care offices. … Issues and initiatives in the testing process in primary care physician offices. … Creating safety in the testing process in primary care offices.

35. Diagnostic Stewardship in Action | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2024 - Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Introduction Background Diagnostic Error in the Testing … Practices to optimize the use of diagnostic testing are often developed around specialty- or disease-specific … They also provided a service to recommend diagnostic testing based on these protocols, patient history … The pathologist’s role in cancer care has expanded in the era of molecular testing and targeted therapies … teams The costliness and complexity of genetic testing makes genetic diagnosis a strong candidate for

36. Figure 1. Numeric Scoring for Evaluation Criteria | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2010 - domain) that the measure was developed in collaboration with stakeholders (without any of the below testing … Evidence of some instrument testing. … Evidence of testing documented in the public domain. … Reliability and/or validity testing: Testing results reported as a quantifiable statistical measure. … If this type of testing was conducted, but the actual statistical measure was not reported, it would

37. Reporting Results of Point of Care Testing for COVID-19: A New National Healthcare Safety Network Tool for Long-term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - Reporting Results of Point of Care Testing for COVID-19: A New National Healthcare Safety Network Tool … for Long-term Care Facilities Resource: Reporting Results of Point of Care Testing for COVID

38. Part Three: Three Strategies for Continuous Improvement of Physician Feedback Reporting Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2016 - 1: Systems that enable physicians to correct patient-level data Section 3-2: Prerelease cognitive testing … Technique #1: Cognitive testing Cognitive testing is conducted through one-on-one, in-person meetings … See Text Box 4 for sample questions that cognitive testing can answer. Text Box 4. … Illustrative questions that can be answered with cognitive testing Do physicians respond … Cognitive testing can be used throughout the development process.

39. Adverse Events | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Adverse Events Developing and Testing the Health Care Safety Hotline: A Prototype Consumer Reporting

40. Table 3. Testing Results in New York State Medicaid (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2012 - Testing Results in New York State Medicaid Table 3. … Testing Results in New York State Medicaid Testing results for Teratogen Measures using New York State