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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/lep/handouts/lepevidencesum.html
December 01, 2012 - care providers often try to "get by" with their own limited language skills or with ad hoc interpreters … The impact of medical interpreter services on the quality of health care: a systematic review. … Language, culture, and medical tragedy: The Case of Willie Ramirez. … Available at: http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/11/19/language-culture-and-medical-tragedy-the-case-of-willie-ramirez … The high costs of language barriers in medical malpractice: Berkeley: University of California School
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/bruzzese3-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - share
lessons learned from national and statewide adverse event reporting systems. … consulting actuary, Milliman
• Karen Pollitz, director, Office of Consumer Support, CMS Center for Consumer … Olson, J.D., director, Food and Consumer Product Safety Programs, The Pew
Charitable Trusts
• Michael … The law creates accountable care organizations, in which
healthcare providers coordinate patient care … workers are being trained using state-of-the-art patient simulators.
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www.ahrq.gov/downloads/monahrq/pdf/MONAHRQV1_HostUserGuide.pdf
May 27, 2010 - testing of the QI consumer pathway in
MONAHRQ. … thus the content for the consumer pathway in MONAHRQ),
as well as providing helpful hints for host users … of integrated health care delivery systems who are responsible for
quality in their facilities; … • Two focus groups with chief medical officers of hospitals and/or systems and two focus groups
with … More sophisticated systems are
sometimes set up so people can choose hospitals within “n” miles of a
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/casalino_idkeydsr.pdf
February 01, 2014 - system, so the delivery system should be a major
consumer of CER and a key to the effectiveness of … are handicapped by lack of a gold
standard census of medical groups and integrated delivery systems … i
CAHPS is the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems family of surveys available from … Compare the effectiveness of accountable care systems and usual care on costs, processes of
care, and … primary care, improving consumer self-care, a combination of integration and self-
care) in avoiding
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www.ahrq.gov/es/hai/patient-safety-resources/advances-in-hai/hai-article10.html
August 01, 2018 - Records
Using Socio-Technical Probabilistic Risk Assessment (ST-PRA) to Assess Risk and Improve Patient … Safety and Reliability in Health Care Systems
Carol VanDeusen Lukas … Methods
Participating Hospitals
The six intervention sites, in four health care systems, are all … Participating systems differed in the extent of their systems support, as shown in the Appendix . … For hospitals and systems that want to pursue an antimicrobial stewardship program, the toolkit developed
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-case5.html
November 01, 2014 - The system competes with two other well known, private, not-for-profit systems for insured patients, … Another executive noted the importance of having an information systems representative on RIE teams, … a lesser extent, Heights has seen improvements in patient experience, clinical process or outcomes assessment … Clinical Process or Outcomes Assessment and Patient Safety
There were no changes in clinical quality … An executive reported that process indicators for pain assessment and pain management in the ED had also
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/hmv-protocol.pdf
February 02, 2018 - expired tidal volumes), safety and alarm systems,
internal battery life, and accessories. … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies - We will evaluate the
risk of bias … of bias); precision (based on the size of the body of evidence, number of events, and
confidence intervals … Based on this assessment and the initial study design, we will assign a strength of evidence
rating … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and
others
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-case2.html
November 01, 2014 - consists of a safety net hospital and four major hospital systems, including HAU Care. … Historically, the four major hospital systems operated in different niches of the city and surrounding … Two of the other regional systems have hospitals close by, while the third is not considered a major … because they did not have the correct systems upgrade. … Clinical Processes or Outcomes Assessment and Patient Safety
One finding regarding patient safety
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-0232-fullreport.pdf
February 01, 2020 - Understandability
CHIPRA states that the core set should allow purchasers, families, and health care … providers to understand the quality of care for children. … the sex, age, and height percentile method of
hypertension assessment. … Evaluation of the overweight/obese child—
practical tips for the primary health care provider: Recommendations … Expert committee recommendations regarding the prevention, assessment, and
treatment of child and adolescent
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/factors-contributing-sustainment.pdf
August 31, 2015 - in processes and systems reported by the practices. … programs or systems. … care coordination, and improvements to
data systems). … representatives from key provider and consumer organizations. … The platform was based at one of the state’s largest health systems (Intermountain
Medical Center) but
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/telediagnosis.pdf
August 03, 2020 - Medicare Telemedicine Health Care Provider Fact Sheet. … March 17, 2020. https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicare-telemedicine-health-care-
provider-fact-sheet … ://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27042813/
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicare-telemedicine-health-care-provider-fact-sheet … https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicare-telemedicine-health-care-provider-fact-sheet
https … Patterns of use and correlates of patient satisfaction with
a large nationwide direct to consumer telemedicine
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/survey-methods-research/increasing-responses.html
August 01, 2024 - To maximize the number of responses, sponsors and vendors can: Improve initial contact rates by making … against the risk of obtaining low response rates and less representative data. … Interviewing during the daytime on weekdays is especially effective and appropriate for surveys of seniors … mail and phone methods of data collection, mail the questionnaire. … Contact the person again before the end of data collection to determine if he/she has recovered and can
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressureulcertoolkit/putoolssect7.docx
February 16, 2011 - attitudes and risks
Actions to take
Example: health information systems officer
Gatekeeper for making … The form was developed by the Turning Point Initiative to assess if an organization has the needed systems … Use: Use the results of this assessment to identify issues that you need to deal with, and formulate … Use: Use the results of this assessment to identify issues that you need to deal with, and formulate … Use: Use the results of this assessment to identify issues that you need to deal with, and formulate
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/healthyliving/healthyliving-slides.html
April 01, 2018 - care providers, public health professionals, and individuals. … and others urge patients to tell health care providers about all their medications. 28
Health care … Interventions to modify health care provider adherence to asthma guidelines: a systematic review. … Importance: Smoking is a modifiable risk factor, and health care providers can help encourage patients … Is delivered by many health care providers.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/cdifftoolkit.pdf
September 01, 2012 - communication and collaboration as well as ongoing
monitoring of systems. … systems, and hospital intranet pages). … An assessment of cost to
implement the intervention and potential cost savings from fewer or different … What is the
institutional risk
assessment approach
and how can it help us? … Allows use of local systems to
obtain data and supplement
activities
Shorter track record and
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy4/Strat4_Implement_Hndbook_508_v2.docx
April 01, 2011 - At initial nursing assessment
Blank cell. … This includes staff assessment of patients’ risk factors, needs, available resources, knowledge of disease … caretransitions.org/
RED (Re-Engineered Discharge), available at:
http://www.ahrq.gov/
professionals/systems … a combination of assessment and communication strategies for improving discharge outcomes for older … As part of the initial nursing assessment, it is important for nurses to ask patients which family or
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/ptflowguide.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Whether found in a highly mechanical production environment or a consumer-oriented
service industry, … EDs remain exclusively paper based.20 Interoperability of computer systems continues to be
a challenge … Data elements drawn from billing or coding systems tend to have a
consistent location. … The need to access multiple IT systems was the challenge most frequently identified. … ; planning ESI education and competency assessment for
triage nurses; developing written guidance about
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2024-hcbs-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Department of Health and Human Services and managed by
AHRQ. … The Consumer Assessment
of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Home and Community-Based Services … Introduction
The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Home and Community-Based … ”) and the bottom box score is the combined percent of “Never” or “Sometimes” answers. … from the 83 percent of respondents who did not work
and did not want to work for pay and provides their
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/anthropological-approaches-brief.pdf
March 01, 2013 - An Anthropological Approach
The hallmark of anthropology is the exploration of the complexity and nuances … of exploring in depth the whys and hows of human culture, behavior, and expression. … For example, in the baseline assessment phase of a PCMH evaluation, evaluators might use focus
groups … Observers might also note the layout and décor of the
waiting area, emotional tone of the room, length … The collection and analysis of a comprehensive set of this
type of data may be time consuming and labor
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/en-bsc-interim-report-1.pdf
January 31, 2024 - In addition, UPHCS is a
three-time recipient of HRSA’s Small Health Care Provider QI Program funding … Qsource brings over four decades of experience addressing
health quality of care and healthcare providers … , the state Department of Health, healthcare delivery systems and their QI vendors,
medical associations … to the strain and demands created by
COVID-19 and the impact on healthcare providers. … community, patient/consumer, and family
stakeholders) to teach them about the clinical innovation