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1. Categorizing High and Low Performance in Quality Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2022 - Here are two alternative strategies to consider: Using statistical tests to identify “significantly … Using Statistical Tests to Categorize Performance One solution is to use statistical tests to identify … Many health care professionals believe that only statistical tests can tell you which differences really … The Challenge of Statistical Tests If you use this approach, providers will want assurance that they … Some report sponsors worry that if statistical tests or more judgment-based tests of clinical significance

2. Were, Martin | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2014 - has four aims: Develop and implement a computerized tool (PRP tool) which automatically identifies tests … with pending results at hospital discharge and assists in incorporating these tests into the discharge … Progress to Date: The first year was spent developing the tool for incorporating pending tests into … Were will evaluate the impact of the PRP tool on the accuracy with which pending tests are documented … The PRP tool will be enhanced to allow it to deliver results of tests that were identified as pending

3. Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2018 - guide can increase the reliability of the testing process in your office by helping you examine how tests … Studies of primary care offices consistently show that the process for managing tests is a significant … The tools will help you examine how tests are managed in your office, from the moment tests are ordered

4. Tools To Improve Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2024 - 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 … important areas: elevated blood pressure, adolescent depression, and actionable pediatric diagnostic tests

5. NICU Family Information Packet, Appendix B, Neurodevelopment (pdf file)
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   December 13, 2013 - ■ 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

6. Job Aid: Model for Improvement and PDSA Cycles (pdf file)
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   May 17, 2021 - 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

7. Issue Brief 9: Improved Diagnostic Accuracy Through Probability-Based Diagnosis (pdf file)
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   September 01, 2022 - ■ Step 3: Selection of diagnostic tests. … The chosen tests may relate to the most likely diagnosis or the most concerning diagnosis, depending … are physical examination maneuvers or blood or imaging tests. … to screening tests is an illustrative exception. … Information provided by diagnostic and screening tests: improving probabilities.

8. Final Topic Refinement Document - Role of Liquid Biopsy in Detection and Management of Cancer in the Medicare Population (pdf file)
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   July 29, 2021 - Laboratory Developed Tests. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. … https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/vitro- diagnostics/laboratory-developed-tests. … such as PSA, hCG, CA125, tumor-based gene expression tests, calcitonin, HE4, NMP-22 etc … The current construct of FDA approved tests will most likely make FDA approved tests lag in content … infancy, with few such tests currently validated and available for clinical use.

9. Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process Toolkit (pdf file)
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   December 01, 2017 - The tools will help you examine how tests are managed in your office, from the moment tests are ordered … Errors in managing tests are more common than most of us realize. … Do you know why the test (or tests) was ordered? If yes, what was the reason?” … • An area to improve your patients’ knowledge about their tests. … A report that identifies all tests ordered during a specific time period?

10. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare (pdf file)
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    July 14, 2023 - updates from the IAWG Subcommittee on Best Practices for Utilizing Patient Portals for the Release of Tests … very similar symptoms, and a full workup and examination (sometimes with additional diagnostic tests … This policy financially penalizes hospitals that may want to perform the tests. … The winning technologies designed and developed diagnostic tests and platform technologies to reduce … updates from the IAWG Subcommittee on Best Practices for Utilizing Patient Portals for the Release of Tests

11. Results of ARRA-Funded CER Dissemination Activities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2014 - Continuing Education Retention Tests Slide 14. … Continuing Education Retention Tests: Confidence in Applying PCOR Slide 15. … Continuing Education Retention Tests: Perceived Value of PCOR Slide 16. … Return to Contents Slide 14: Continuing Education Retention Tests: Confidence in Applying PCOR … : This set of pie graphs shows perceived value of PCOR in continuing education retention tests for two

12. Module 2: Script and Slides (doc file)
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    May 01, 2017 - introduce huddles, we’ve identified a few tips that may help you enhance the value of your initial tests … SLIDE 9 Title: Additional Tests To Hardwire Huddles Into Daily Practice SAY: Once you have completed … your first test huddle, you should consider additional PDSA tests that will help you hardwire huddles … Additional tests to consider may be to alternate staff who lead the huddle or introduce the huddle in … Title: Testing and Implementation: Common Problems and Tips SAY: As you continue with additional tests

13. Make Referrals Easy: Tool 21 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - In the case of tests, explain how you and the patient will use the information to diagnose, manage, or … Follow up with the patient on the results of any tests or screenings, even normal results. … Let patients see how you use the information obtained from tests or specialist visits. … Select at random the records of at least 20 patients who were sent for lab tests a month ago.

14. Tool 13: ED Care Plan (doc file)
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    May 01, 2015 - List presentations in past (12) months, list or provide count of number of relevant tests (e.g., abdominal … care] [Provide recommendations to minimize harm – such as avoiding certain medications or repeated tests … format (S= reason for plan; B= brief history of recurrent presentations; A: summary of prior visits, tests … Utilization Summary: · [summarize past 12 months of ED visits, hospitalizations, relevant diagnostic tests

15. Men: Stay Healthy at 50 (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2014 - Learn which screening tests you need and when to get them, which medicines may prevent diseases, and … Get the Screenings You Need Screenings are tests that look for diseases before you have symptoms. … Blood pressure checks and tests for high blood cholesterol are examples of screenings. … Several different tests—for example, a stool test or a colonoscopy—can detect this cancer.

16. Module 2: Daily Huddles - Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2017 - introduce huddles, we’ve identified a few tips that may help you enhance the value of your initial tests … Slide 9: Additional Tests To Hardwire Huddles Into Daily Practice Say: Once you have completed … your first test huddle, you should consider additional PDSA tests that will help you hardwire huddles … Additional tests to consider may be to alternate staff who lead the huddle or introduce the huddle in … 10: Testing and Implementation: Common Problems and Tips Say: As you continue with additional tests

17. Using Reported Primary Care Errors to Develop and Implement Patient Safety Interventions: A Report from the ASIPS Collaborative (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2005 - Results: The intervention for laboratory tests involved the use of a portable bar coding utility to … In some cases, one log was used to track lab tests ordered and another was used to track lab tests returned … By using a single database, tests ordered can be tracked against test results received to determine … The system tracks all lab tests ordered and results returned using bar code technology. … as well as the status of “stat” tests and “alarm” values.

18. Research Centers for Excellence in Clinical Preventive Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2018 - Excellence in Clinical Preventive Services | University of North Carolina Overuse of some medical screening tests … main research projects of this center focus on reducing the overuse of potentially harmful screening tests … Screening tests, such as mammograms and colonoscopies.

19. Module 1- Component Kit (doc file)
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    May 01, 2017 - Results of these preliminary tests were promising, including increases in staff satisfaction and safety … accompanying “component kits” to help you introduce these management practices in your center through small tests … “Acting” means using what you learned to move to further tests or incorporate the change into daily practice … The component kits we have designed include suggestions for multiple tests to help you operationalize … For example, you will find examples of PDSA forms to help you plan your tests of change with these ideas

20. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 2b) (doc file)
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    June 20, 2011 - Your doctor may also ask you to get some tests or give you test results that you are waiting for. … Am I waiting on results of any tests? When should I get the results? … Are there tests I need after I leave the hospital?