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1. CAHPS Cancer Care Survey: Drug Therapy (pdf file)
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/drug-eng-cancer-552a.pdf
   October 07, 2016 - Drug therapy does not include radiation therapy or surgery. … In the last 6 months, when you had blood tests, x-rays, or other tests as part of your cancer treatment … your health during cancer treatment such as what to eat and what exercises to do? … Besides drug therapy, did you receive other types of cancer treatments or services from this cancer … How do you prefer to make decisions about your cancer treatment?

2. Dispelling Myths About Nicotine Replacement Therapy: Fact Sheet | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/smoking/myths.html
   August 01, 2018 - Smoking Cessation Evidence and Resources Dispelling Myths About Nicotine Replacement Therapy … Incontinence Tools for Change Dispelling Myths About Nicotine Replacement Therapy … : Fact Sheet Resource title: Dispelling Myths About Nicotine Replacement Therapy Resource … description: This fact sheet for patients reviews and refutes common myths about nicotine replacement therapy … originally created August 2018 Internet Citation: Dispelling Myths About Nicotine Replacement Therapy

3. Health Literacy Tools for Providers of Medication Therapy Management | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/pharmacy/medication-mgt.html
   September 01, 2020 - Health Literacy Improvement Tools Health Literacy Tools for Providers of Medication Therapy … Research Tools, Data, and Funding Health Literacy Tools for Providers of Medication Therapy … Management Medication Therapy Management (MTM) is a patient-centric and comprehensive approach … designed to improve patients’ knowledge of their prescriptions, over-the-counter (OTC) medications, herbal therapies … created July 2017 Internet Citation: Health Literacy Tools for Providers of Medication Therapy

4. Pain Management Injection Therapies for Low-back Pain: Topic Refinement (pdf file)
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/lbpinject-topicref.pdf
   March 03, 2014 - Broadly, these can be classified as pharmacological treatments,15 non-pharmacological treatments (e.g … ., exercise therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, spinal manipulation, acupuncture, and others),16 … injection therapies,17 and surgical treatments.18 Injection therapies, the topic of this evidence review … Ablative therapies include radiofrequency denervation, intradiscalelectrothermal therapy, percutaneous … Effectiveness of therapeutic lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections in managing lumbar spinal

5. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/four-moments/index.html
   November 01, 2019 - Stewardship Program Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing Best Practices for Diagnosis and Treatment … What empiric therapy should I initiate? … Next, decide on the appropriate empiric antibiotic treatment regimen based on what you think the source … Use local antibiotic treatment guidelines whenever they are available. … Can I narrow therapy or change from IV to oral therapy?

6. Improving the Safety of Diagnosis and Therapy in the Inpatient Setting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/improving-safety-diagnosis-long-desc.html
   February 01, 2024 - overall goal of this learning lab was to improve diagnostic safety and link diagnosis to the correct treatment … conduct: Problem analysis using systems engineering methods to analyze the problem of diagnostic and therapeutic … rapid, iterative prototyping of interventions to engage care teams and patients/caregivers to ensure treatment … Final Report: Improving the Safety of Diagnosis and Therapy in the Inpatient Setting. … Research Plan: Improving the Safety of Diagnosis and Therapy in the Inpatient Setting.

7. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/diagnosis/sepsis.html
   November 01, 2019 - Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits Acute Care Hospital Toolkit Best Practices for Diagnosis and Treatment … Care Toolkit Long-Term Care Toolkit Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment … of sepsis Recognize when to stop and narrow antibiotic therapy in patients with suspected sepsis … Discuss durations of therapy for patients with sepsis Slides (PPTX) Facilitator Guide (PDF) … originally created November 2019 Internet Citation: Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment

8. Final report: To Quantify the Impact of the Existing vs. Enhanced Work Configuration of Radiation Therapy Technicians on Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance during Pretreatment QA Tasks (pdf file)
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/mosaly-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - Scope: Our focus was on radiation therapy pretreatment QA tasks performed by RTTs. … Our focus was on radiation therapy pretreatment QA tasks performed by the RTTs. … labeled treatment side/field 8. … A patient requiring esophagus treatment and has incorrectly labeled treatment site/field name Incorrectly … Relating physician’s workload with errors during radiation therapy planning.

9. Massage Northern Ohio Practice-Based Research Network | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/communities/pbrn/registry/massage-northern-ohio-practice-based-research-network.html
   March 12, 2015 - Network Acronym: MNO-PBRN Network Type: Other Network Type Other:

   Massage Therapy … Network Founded: January 1, 2014 Network Mission Statement: To improve access to massage therapy … massage efficacy, and to educate the public, healthcare providers, and policy makers about massage therapy … or Past Research Interests Comments : Other health care areas of interest: Integration of massage therapy

10. AHRQ Health Literacy Tools for Use in Pharmacies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/pharmacy/tools.html
    January 01, 2024 - Health literacy tools to improve communication for providers of medication therapy management. … Phone Call Top of Page Health Literacy Tools To Improve Communication for Providers of Medication Therapy … Management Medication Therapy Management (MTM) is a patient-centric and comprehensive approach to … Get started: Health literacy tools to improve communication for providers of medication therapy management

11. CAHPS Cancer Care Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/index.html
    July 01, 2020 - The survey consists of three parallel instruments specific to the major treatment modalities: radiation … Care Survey 5.0 (ZIP, 4 MB)   The ZIP file includes: Three survey instruments (for Radiation Therapy … , Drug Therapy, and Cancer Surgery) in English and Spanish (Word and PDF). … For quick access to the survey instruments and recommended administration methods: Radiation Therapy … Survey (PDF, 241 KB) Drug Therapy Survey (PDF, 257 KB) Cancer Surgery Survey (PDF, 298 KB)

12. Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Topic Refinement - Project ID: CRDT0913 (pdf file)
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/afib_topicref.pdf
    January 01, 2020 -  Utilization, repeat ablation, repeat or prolonged hospitalization  Reduced medication use Treatments … is the primary treatment for rate and rhythm control, while catheter ablation is the second choice … Pharmacological treatment For rhythm control in patients with AF, pharmacologic therapy is typically … ; namely, dofetilide and amiodarone.5 Catheter ablation Catheter ablation for the treatment of AF … infection leading to prolonged hospitalization or sepsis, pulmonary edema]) • Adverse events from drug therapies

13. Developing Innovative Simulation-Based Training to Improve Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-mazur.html
    March 01, 2023 - Mazur’s research goal is to ensure the safe delivery of radiation therapy. … Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink … Approximately 18,000 (3%) of the 600,000 patients who receive radiation therapy annually might be adversely … While radiation therapy has relatively low error and injury rates, studies show that most errors occurring … during radiation cancer treatment originate in the planning stage.

14. Opioids AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice (pdf file)
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/impact-opioid-final.pdf
    November 01, 2018 - MAT, which uses FDA-approved medications combined with psychosocial treatments, is an effective way … and/or pain for at least 1 month when used for—  Chronic low back pain: Exercise, psychological therapies … (primarily cognitive behavioral therapy), spinal manipulation, low-level laser therapy, massage, mindfulness-based …  Hip osteoarthritis: Exercise, manual therapies. …  Fibromyalgia: Exercise, cognitive behavioral therapy, myofascial release massage, tai chi, qigong

15. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/four-moments/index.html
    August 01, 2021 - What empiric therapy should be initiated? … choose an antibiotic that covers the most likely pathogens Moment 3: What duration of antibiotic therapy … Can we narrow therapy? Can we change to oral antibiotics?

16. Using Comparative Effectiveness Reviews to Optimize Quality of Life for Persons with Diabetes and Chronic Pain (pdf file)
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/clinicians-providers/iadapt/safford.pdf
    December 17, 2014 - for Persons with Diabetes and Chronic Pain Description Medications are a mainstay of chronic pain therapy … in diabetes; however, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) can improve functioning and reduce reliance

17. Team-Antibiotic-Review-Form (doc file)
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/improve/team-antibiotic-review-form.docx
    November 01, 2019 - Question 1: Day of antibiotic therapy (choose one) ☐Day 1 ☐Day 2 ☐Day 3 ☐Day 4 ☐Day 5 ☐Day 6 ☐> 7 Days … Question 12: If antibiotics can be changed from intravenous to oral, will you change to oral therapy

18. Weighted Summary Statistics: PUF Medicare Outpatient File (Version 2) (pdf file)
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-PUF-Summary-Statistics-Medicare-Outpatient-Weighted.pdf
    September 26, 2023 - care. 395,523 0.23 165,806,533 96.26 08: Discharged/transferred to home under care of a home IV drug therapy … Imaging 12,336 0.01 172,243,254 99.99 C: Nuclear Medicine 14 0.00 172,243,269 99.99 D: Ratiation Therapy … Audiology 87 0.00 172,252,694 100.00 G: Mental Health 331 0.00 172,253,025 100.00 H: Sustance Abuse Treatment … A0021-A9999: Medical Supplies 3,128,915 1.82 146,115,905 84.83 B4034-B9999: Enteral and Parenteral Therapy … A0021-A9999: Medical Supplies 3,387,016 1.97 157,138,574 91.23 B4034-B9999: Enteral and Parenteral Therapy

19. Smoking Cessation in Primary Care (pdf file)
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/smoking-detail-aid.pdf
    January 01, 2015 - ASK at all visits whether someone is smoking and ADVISE strongly to quit, offering a treatment … plan that fits the patient.4 Choose a treatment plan that fits the patient A comprehensive approach … to cessation is more successful than any one mode of therapy. … For patients ready to commit to quitting, use both behavioral interventions and pharmacologic therapy … Combination varenicline and bupropion SR for tobacco-dependence treatment in ciga- rette smokers: a randomized

20. Mourning the Loss of Deputy Director David Meyers, M.D. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/871.html
    July 01, 2023 - Standardized Surveillance Definition May Help Reduce Infections From Home-Infusion Therapy . … Standardized Surveillance Definition May Help Reduce Infections From Home-Infusion Therapy An AHRQ-funded … No standardized CLABSI definition had been validated for patients on home infusion therapy. … Researchers sought to track infection reduction efforts in home infusion therapy as well as implement