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21. Chapter-7 - Harm Due to Anticoagulants (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/anticoagulants-1.pdf
    March 01, 2020 - Introduction Anticoagulants are a critical therapy in the prevention and treatment of various types … Dabigatran versus Warfarin in the treatment of acute venous thromboembolism. … Oral rivaroxaban for the treatment of symptomatic pulmonary embolism. … Weight-based argatroban dosing nomogram for treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. … The mean time of the INR in therapeutic range (TTR) was 62.75%.

22. Technology Assessment Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/ta/index.html
    May 01, 2025 - Ventilators (2017; PDF - 144 KB) Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation (2014; PDF - 216 KB) Therapeutic … Options for Obesity in the Medicare Population (2014; PDF - 316 KB) Pain Management Injection Therapies

23. The Patient-Clinician Dyad | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-reimagining-healthcare-teams-2.html
    July 01, 2023 - a patient’s history or to consider all potential data points to develop high-quality diagnostic or therapeutic

24. Using Lean Six Sigma® Tools to Compare INR Measurements from Different Laboratories Within a Community (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Hurley_55.pdf
    March 07, 2008 - The grant supported the creation of the Community Anticoagulation Therapy (CAT) Clinic and the Cedar … These two practices manage approximately 2,000 patients on long-term warfarin therapy, representing … Therefore, almost 40 percent of the variation in a patient’s therapeutic range (typical therapeutic … Repeat INR determinations would be made until the patient was back in therapeutic range. … Bleeding and thromboembolism during anticoagulant therapy: A population-based study in Rochester, Minnesota

25. NICU Family Information Packet, Appendix B, Gastroesophageal Reflux (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/nicu_toolkit/nicupacket-apb-ger.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - to distinguish between physiologic and pathologic GER (GERD, or GER disease) before beginning any therapeutic … Treatment ■ Medical or surgical therapy is indicated only for pathological GER. … ■ Therapies may improve symptoms, but generally reflux is not entirely eliminated.

26. Measure 13 and 17 combined (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/chipra-164-materials-ii.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - Services and Codes, by Severity Treatment Variables Definition – by Severity Variable Proc. … Partial Pulpectomy D7210, D7220, D7230, D7240 Complete Pulpectomy D3120 Pulp Cap Indirect D3220 Therapeutic … Pulpotomy D3240 Pulpal therapy Posterior Primary D3310 , D3320, D3330 End Therapy (Root Canals), Anterior … Bicuspid and Posterior Tooth ENDODONTICS D3120 Pulp Cap Indirect D3220 Therapeutic Pulpotomy D3240 … Pulpal therapy Posterior Primary End Therapy (Root Canals), Anterior Bicuspid and Posterior Tooth

27. Appendix B. Figure 3. Normalized Percent Distribution for Surgical Procedures with Incision (California 2008 SASD) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpraapbfig3.html
    April 01, 2018 - and cataract procedures—30 percent Excision of semilunar cartilage of the knee—8 percent Other therapeutic

28. Acute Care ASP Development
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/improve/program-part1-slides.pptx
    November 01, 2019 - trends Assists with some AS interventions (non-stewardship pharmacists) IV to oral conversion protocols Therapeutic … antibiotic monitoring protocols Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee Decisions regarding formulary … Adverse event detection Appropriate microbiology specimen collection Timing of therapeutic drug level … Antibiotic Decision Making approach Diagnostic criteria for infection Appropriate cultures and empiric therapy … The ASP should develop guidelines for management and treatment of common infectious diseases syndromes

29. What Exactly Is Patient Safety? (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Emanuel-Berwick_110.pdf
    July 02, 2008 - simple and overarching model identifies four domains of patient safety (recipients of care, providers, therapeutics … In an important parallel development, as treatments became increasingly effective, the medical field … The practitioner was trained and certified to apply therapy at the point of the illness-causing disorder … Misuse was further defined as the preventable complications of treatment. … The nature of the illnesses and social setting, the nature of the therapies, the nature of the human

30. NICU Family Information Packet, Appendix B, Apnea Of Prematurity (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/nicu_toolkit/nicupacket-apb-apnea.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - center in the immature brain stem does not trigger inspiration; frequently responds to methylxanthine treatment … Home Treatment ■ Most infants still having apnea are kept hospitalized; few may be discharged home. … – Caffeine is most commonly used due to its broader therapeutic index and slower excretion rate than … Infants are generally monitored for a 5- to 7-day apnea-free period after discontinuing methylxanthine therapy

31. 5 Tk2 T1-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit Background (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_T1-Concise_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Background.pdf
    May 01, 2014 - nursing homes in creating their own antibiograms, an important tool for guiding empiric antimicrobial therapy … susceptibility test data reports to determine the most appropriate agents for initial empirical antimicrobial therapy … practitioners, and physician assistants—can consult these tools before initiating empiric antibiotic therapy …  Selection of empiric therapy in a particular patient should not be based solely on an antibiogram … including patient characteristics and prevalence of other risk factors should be incorporated when making therapeutic

32. 5 Tk2 T1-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit Background (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_T1-Concise_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Background.doc
    May 01, 2014 - nursing homes in creating their own antibiograms, an important tool for guiding empiric antimicrobial therapy … susceptibility test data reports to determine the most appropriate agents for initial empirical antimicrobial therapy … practitioners, and physician assistants—can consult these tools before initiating empiric antibiotic therapy … · Selection of empiric therapy in a particular patient should not be based solely on an antibiogram … including patient characteristics and prevalence of other risk factors should be incorporated when making therapeutic

33. Appendix B. Database Analysis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpraapb.html
    April 01, 2018 - Excision of semilunar cartilage of knee 67,742 2.38% 38,074 2.06% 29,668 2.95% Other therapeutic … Inguinal and femoral hernia repair 48,674 1.71% 40,790 2.21% 7,884 0.78% Other OR therapeutic

34. Protecting Patients from Drug-Drug Medication Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-malone.html
    September 01, 2023 - The University had received a grant from the AHRQ Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics … Specifically, he held focus groups with hospital pharmacy and therapeutic (P&T) committee members—whose

35. Measures: Safe and Judicious Antipsychotic Use in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/chipra_1415-p011-1-ef_0.pdf
    March 01, 2015 - ● Antipsychotic medications are among the most expensive, highest in risk, and fastest growing of therapeutic … Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Centers for Education and Research on Mental Health Therapeutics … The next measure encourages use of psychosocial intervention as a first-line treatment for children … Two measures assess receipt of services for children and adolescents who initiate antipsychotic treatment

36. Medication Summary Guides for Vulnerable Populations with Rheumatoid Arthritis (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/clinicians-providers/iadapt/yelin.pdf
    December 19, 2014 - Project Aims The project aims were to: 1) Assess current knowledge of therapeutic options in

37. Final Progress Report: UIC Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics Tools for Optimizing Prescribing, Monitoring and Education (TOP-MED) (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lambert2-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: UIC Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics Tools for Optimizing Prescribing … Emphasis centers on the quality of the available evidence and on comparisons to therapeutic alternatives … specified the use of actual body weight for dosing and trough serum concentrations at steady state for therapeutic … The use of anticoagulant therapy for the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and … being used as a mechanism to switch otherwise reluctant patients from expensive to less expensive therapies

38. CAPQuaM PQMP Perinatal Measure 1 Detailed Measure Specifications (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/CHIPRA116-Materials-II.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - Documentation child was eligible for and received therapeutic hypothermia (when appropriate). … EXCLUDE if identification of eligibility and plan for therapeutic hypothermia were in place within

39. 5 Tk1 T1-Background Final (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK1_T1-Background_final.docx
    October 01, 2016 - susceptibility test data reports to determine the most appropriate agents for initial empirical antimicrobial therapy … practitioners, and physician assistants—can consult these tools before initiating empiric antibiotic therapy … Antibiograms are not generalizable to different nursing homes; they can be useful tools for guiding empiric therapy … monitoring antibiotic susceptibility trends within a specific nursing home. · Selection of empiric therapy … including resident characteristics and prevalence of other risk factors should be incorporated when making therapeutic

40. 5 Tk1 T1-Background Final (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK1_T1-Background_final.pdf
    October 01, 2016 - susceptibility test data reports to determine the most appropriate agents for initial empirical antimicrobial therapy … practitioners, and physician assistants—can consult these tools before initiating empiric antibiotic therapy … Antibiograms are not generalizable to different nursing homes; they can be useful tools for guiding empiric therapy … • Selection of empiric therapy in a particular resident should not be based solely on an antibiogram … resident characteristics and prevalence of other risk factors should be incorporated when making therapeutic