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21. Background | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship3.html
    August 01, 2024 - Ahead Conclusion References The increasing number and complexity of diagnostic tests … , but only 11 percent used it frequently. 21 Ensuring that clinicians are optimally equipped to use tests

22. Patient and Family Engagement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/topics/patient-and-family-engagement.html
    Office Testing Process: Patient Engagement Survey can help assess patients' understanding of their tests

23. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship2.html
    August 01, 2024 - reduce diagnostic errors. 8 A variety of actionable approaches are available to ensure that diagnostic tests … described collectively as diagnostic stewardship. 9,10 Diagnostic stewardship refers to “ordering the right tests … ordering and also includes, for instance, reporting results in ways that maximize the usefulness of tests

24. NICU Family Information Packet, Appendix B, Neurodevelopment (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/nicu_toolkit/nicupacket-apb-neurodevt.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - ■ Use standardized screening tests to assure consistency and accuracy in the identification of infants … ■ Repeat screening tests at each well-child visit in order to follow their developmental trajectory … ■ Parent test instruments have excellent psychometric properties and are comparable to screening tests … ■ Screening tests requiring direct examination of the infant: – Denver-II Screening Test. … ■ Screening tests for behavioral and psychosocial problems: ■ Temperament and Atypical Behavior

25. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/actionplan-trip-facguide.docx
    January 01, 2017 - We will talk more about piloting tests of change later in this module. … Slide 19 Title Slide Tests of Change How small-scale tests inform sustainable quality improvement … Tests of change are small-scale tests to evaluate a proposed change. … Tests of change offer action-oriented learning in the appropriate context and setting. … ASK: Can you think of any reasons to employ small tests of change?

26. Final Progress Report: Risk Assessment of the Testing Processes of Access Community Health Network (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/eder-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - comprehensive risk assessment of the management of laboratory testing, imaging studies, and special tests … Scope The scope of this assessment includes the processing of all lab tests, imaging studies, … and special tests ordered on ACCESS patients that, when optimally managed, normally would be returned … We did not study individual performance or the accuracy of ordering tests or interpreting results. … A phone survey of patients to assess their understanding of tests ordered for them and whether they

27. Georgetown University Family Nurse Practitioner Program Trains Hundreds of Students Using AHRQ App to Improve Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201901.html
    March 01, 2019 - patient individually, allowing for a better understanding of which preventive services or screening tests … informs students about a patient’s health needs and determines proper timing for particular screening tests … Students also learn the most current guidelines about how often various screening tests should be performed … Scientific evidence has evolved about recommendations on the frequency of Pap tests, breast cancer screening … Students then write a paper comparing what tests they ordered during the wellness encounter with what

28. 2018 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Appendix A (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2018qdr-appa1.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - 2000-2017) Adults who had a doctor’s office or clinic visit in the last 12 months and needed care, tests … , or treatment who sometimes or never found it easy to get the care, tests, or treatment -2.19 0.0 … , or treatment who sometimes or never found it easy to get the care, tests, or treatment 2.34 0.0 … , or treatment who sometimes or never found it easy to get the care, tests, or treatment 138.68 6.19 … , or treatment who sometimes or never found it easy to get the care, tests, or treatment 59.74

29. PowerPoint Presentation
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/manage-resident-RTI-slides.pptx
    June 01, 2021 - Have we collected appropriate cultures and diagnostic tests before starting antibiotics? … Re-evaluate the resident and review results of diagnostic tests. Can we stop antibiotics?  … Have we collected appropriate cultures and diagnostic tests before starting antibiotics? … Re-evaluate the resident and review results of diagnostic tests. Can we stop antibiotics?  … Have we collected appropriate cultures and diagnostic tests before starting antibiotics?

30. Calculating Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Laboratory Test Percent Positivity: CDC Methods and Considerations for Comparisons and Interpretation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/calculating-sars-cov-2.html
    May 01, 2022 - percent positivity used by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is the number of positive tests … (numerator) divided by the total number of resulted reported tests (denominator) (positive/total) x

31. Final Progress Report: Improving Safety and Quality with Outpatient Order Entry (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/gandhi-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - • Order Tracking: Reports of tests that were ordered but not performed. … Outcome—Completion rate of tests ordered. … Order Tracking: Reports of Tests that Were Ordered but not Performed. … Secondary outcomes will compare test type, specifically lab tests versus colonoscopies. … tests, producing the cost-savings number.

32. Tools To Improve Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/tools/index.html
    June 01, 2025 - Studies of primary care offices consistently show that the process for managing tests is a significant … This toolkit helps ensure that diagnostic lab tests are accurately managed and shared with patients and … The tools help examine how tests are managed in the office, from the moment tests are ordered until the

33. Diagnostic Error in the Testing Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship4.html
    August 01, 2024 - test selection, ordering, and specimen collection. 10 Often, such errors reflect ordering diagnostic tests … urinary tract infections and lead to inappropriate use of antibiotics. 26   Underuse of diagnostic tests … findings to the patient’s family. 34 If access to the appropriate expertise to interpret these complex tests

34. Final progress Report: Spaced Education to Optimize Prostate Cancer Screening (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/kerfoot-conlin-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - weeks 1-36), clinicians receiving SE emails ordered significantly fewer inappropriate PSA screening tests … PSA screening tests ordered by a cohort by the total number of PSA screening tests ordered by that … All three multiple- choice tests were completed by 92% and 85% of providers in the spaced education and … Mean test scores in the spaced education cohort were 96% (SD 8) and 95% (SD 8) for tests 2 (week 18) … Spaced education clinicians also ordered fewer PSA screening tests overall compared with clinicians

35. Job Aid: Model for Improvement and PDSA Cycles (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-model-pdsa.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - Conduct small tests of change (e.g., one patient, practitioner or team), refine, and then spread using … Keeping tests "small" reduces people's fear and helps overcome our natural resistance to change. … When data show the change being tested is promising, the tests can increase in size. … Cycles move from small tests, to refining the change based on the results of the small test, to testing

36. RED Discharge Preparation Workbook (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/hospitals/red-toolkit/dischargeprep.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - requests: _________________________________________________________________ Additional Appointments, Tests … Outstanding Tests/Labs Tests /Labs Pending Date Conducted Results Expected Who Will Follow … Outstanding Tests/Labs

37. 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_gilliam.html
    January 01, 2014 - student at the University of North Carolina, first learned about the potential harms of cancer screening tests … Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for screening tests.

38. Development of the CAHPS Outpatient Mental Health Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/develop-outpatient-mental-health-surveys.html
    August 01, 2024 - logistical challenges related to finding partners for field testing, the team conducted multiple field tests … The CAHPS research team first conducted online field tests among participants who were members of an … After making further adjustments to the survey, the team conducted two additional field tests in the

39. Presentation: Program Overview
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/actionplan-trip-slides.pptx
    January 01, 2017 - Principles for Tests of Change. … Principles for Rapid Cycle Tests. … Principles for Rapid Cycle Tests. … Principles for Rapid Cycle Tests. … Principles for Rapid Cycle Tests.

40. AHCP Template for Manual Creation: English-Speaking Patients (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/hospitals/red-toolkit/ahcptemplen.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - [PCP Name]: When I left the hospital, results from some tests were not available. … Please check for results of these tests: [List tests done] I am having trouble with the stairs in