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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. Adolescents who present to the ED with psychotic symptoms should receive the laboratory tests | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2021 - Adolescents who present to the ED with psychotic symptoms should receive the laboratory tests … Adolescents who present to the ED with psychotic symptoms should receive the laboratory tests … Citation: Adolescents who present to the ED with psychotic symptoms should receive the laboratory tests

3. National Collaborative for Innovation in Quality Measurement--Metabolic Monitoring for Children and Adolescents on Antipsychotics (pdf file)
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   November 01, 2014 -  At least one test for blood glucose (Glucose Tests Value Set) or HbA1c (HbA1c Tests Value Set) …  At least one tests for LDL-C (LDL-C Tests Value Set) or cholesterol (Cholesterol Tests Other than …  At least one test for blood glucose (Glucose Tests Value Set) or HbA1c (HbA1c Tests Value Set) …  At least one test for LDL-C (LDL-C Tests Value Set) or cholesterol (Cholesterol Tests Other Than

4. 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

5. 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

6. CAHPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 18, 2024 - Item Number Title Population Survey Topics C-HIT16 Blood tests … Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT15 Blood tests … Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT17 Blood tests … Health information technology C-HIT14 Patient looked for blood tests … Health information technology C-HIT13 Provider's office put blood tests

7. PowerPoint Presentation
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   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?

8. 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

9. 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

10. The Never Antibiotics Diagnoses: Influenza and RSV – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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    September 01, 2022 - .: Do I need to order any diagnostic tests?  … Rapid influenza direct antigen diagnostic tests look for viral antigens. … These tests take only 10 to 15 minutes to run, and many are available as point-of-care tests. … Furthermore, these tests are generally better at detecting influenza A than influenza B. … Besides the rapid tests we just discussed, other molecular tests are more commonly used in the hospital

11. CAHPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Health information technology C-HIT13 Provider's office put blood tests … Health information technology C-HIT14 Patient looked for blood tests … Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT15 Blood tests … Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT16 Blood tests … Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT17 Blood tests

12. CAHPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT17 Blood tests … Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT16 Blood tests … Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT15 Blood tests … Health information technology C-HIT14 Patient looked for blood tests … Health information technology C-HIT13 Provider's office put blood tests

13. CAHPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Health information technology C-HIT13 Provider's office put blood tests … Health information technology C-HIT14 Patient looked for blood tests … Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT15 Blood tests … Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT16 Blood tests … Clinician & Group Health information technology C-HIT17 Blood tests

14. Manage-Resident-Rti-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
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    June 01, 2021 - The team decides to obtain some laboratory tests and a chest x ray. … for diagnostic tests to return? … Slide 8 Diagnostic Tests SAY: Several diagnostic tests should be considered as part of the evaluation … Slide 9 Urinary Antigen Tests SAY: Two different urinary antigen tests, which both have relatively … These urinary antigen tests are not always available in the long-term care setting.

15. 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.

16. 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?

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. Implementation Guide for AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice Training Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - Confusion as to which tests, treatments, and procedures require consent. … Consent not consistently obtained prior to performing bedside tests, treatments, and procedures that … In QI work we talk about "small tests of change." … Documentation X percent of tests, treatments, or procedures requiring informed consent will have a … b) I know which tests, treatments, and procedures require verbal consent.