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1. CAHPS Cancer Care Survey: Drug Therapy (pdf file)
   pcmh.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
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   August 01, 2018 - 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. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2019 - Stewardship Program Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing 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

4. Health Literacy Tools for Providers of Medication Therapy Management | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2020 - 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

5. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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. Pain Management Injection Therapies for Low-back Pain: Topic Refinement (pdf file)
   pcmh.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

7. Antibiotic-Time-Out-Tool (doc file)
   pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/improve/antibiotic-time-out-tool.docx
   November 01, 2019 - Antibiotic 1: Treatment day #: Antibiotic 2: Treatment day #: Antibiotic 3: Treatment … ☐ Yes ☐ No What is the planned duration of antibiotic therapy? … Diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia. … Short-course nitrofurantoin for the treatment of acute uncomplicated cystitis in women. … Prospective randomized trial comparing short-term antibiotic therapy versus standard therapy for acute

8. Improving the Safety of Diagnosis and Therapy in the Inpatient Setting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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.

9. AHRQ Health Literacy Tools for Use in Pharmacies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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

10. CAHPS Cancer Care Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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)

11. Developing Innovative Simulation-Based Training to Improve Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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.

12. Introducing the CAHPS Cancer Care Survey (pdf file)
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    June 13, 2017 - • Received radiation therapy, drug therapy, or surgery for cancer at the specified cancer center … • Breast carcinoma in situ (all treatment modalities), cervical carcinoma in situ (surgery treatment … Radiation Therapy 2. Drug Therapy 3. … malignant neoplasm and The diagnosis is associated with (i.e., on the same billing line) a cancer treatment … , additional criterion of at least 2 outpatient encounters for cancer treatment in past 6 months. •

13. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.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?

14. 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)
    pcmh.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.

15. Statin Use in U.S. Adults Doubles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2018 - Adults Doubles (PDF, 263 KB) Source: Statistical Brief #458: Trends in Statin Therapy among Adults … (Age ≥ 18), United States, 2000 to 2011 ; Statistical Brief #459: Changes in Statin Therapy among Adults

16. ABCS Aspirin Treatment for Secondary and Primary Prevention ASCVD
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/aspirin-asa-measure.pptx
    April 01, 2016 - ABCS Aspirin Treatment for Secondary and Primary Prevention ASCVD ABCS Aspirin Treatment for Secondary … patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic peripheral artery disease of the lower extremity, antiplatelet therapy … Antiplatelet therapy is recommended in preference to anticoagulant therapy with warfarin or other vitamin … includes readily accessible guideline reference information for both providers and patients related to therapy … current evidence on bleeding and aspirin use to derive a patient’s likely benefits and risks of aspirin therapy

17. Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Topic Refinement - Project ID: CRDT0913 (pdf file)
    pcmh.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

18. Mourning the Loss of Deputy Director David Meyers, M.D. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

19. Multiple Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2023 - ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/echo Specialized Surveys: Cancer care—inpatient and outpatient treatment … for drug therapy, radiation therapy, and surgical therapy Web: ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer

20. Opioids AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice (pdf file)
    pcmh.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