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1. Pain Management Injection Therapies for Low-back Pain: Topic Refinement (pdf file)
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   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

2. 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?

3. 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.

4. 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)
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   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.

5. 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

6. 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)

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. Team-Antibiotic-Review-Form (doc file)
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    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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Systemic and Public Policy Changes Needed To Improve Care for Patients With Psychiatric Conditions and Substance Use Disorders | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - Researchers Identify Barriers to Infection Prevention Training for Home Infusion Therapy Staff . … These changes also will enhance the treatment experience for physicians and nurses and reduce any biases … Researchers Identify Barriers to Infection Prevention Training for Home Infusion Therapy Staff AHRQ-funded … researchers found a lack of formal infection prevention and surveillance training for home infusion therapy … Crohn's disease shared decision making intervention leads to more patients choosing combination therapy

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 - the initial treatment, determining response to a treatment or modifying a treatment). … The utility of liquid biopsies to detect mechanisms of primary and acquired resistance to treatments … For example, “guiding therapeutic decisions” could encompass the initial selection of therapy (e.g., … , or therapeutic monitoring. … selection, and therapeutic response monitoring.

16. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 20, 2016 - focused on causative factors and preventability3:  Causative factors:  Underlying disease  Treatments … Guidelines for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms: Report of a subcommittee of the Joint Council … /occupational therapy assessment … • STK-3 Anticoagulation Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter • STK-4 Thrombolytic Therapy • STK … -5 Antithrombotic Therapy By End of Hospital Day 2 • STK-6 Discharged on Statin Medication • STK-8

17. Tobacco Use and Dependence, General References (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2010 - Nortriptyline and cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of cigarette smoking. … Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Nortriptyline in Smoking Cessation: A Multistudy Analysis. … Evaluating nicotine replacement therapy and stage-based therapies in a population-based effectiveness … Nicotine- mecamylamine treatment for smoking cessation: the role of pre-cessation therapy. … Tobacco smoking, nicotine, and nicotine and non- nicotine replacement therapies.

18. AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy Center | 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 What … Postdischarge Followup Phone Call Health literacy tools to improve communication for providers of medication therapy

19. Food Assistance Linked to Improved Health and Reduced Emergency Care Among Low-Income Children | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - AHRQ Grantee Identifies Strategies To Improve Patient Safety in Radiation Therapy . … Neurofeedback is a treatment that provides real-time feedback of individuals’ brainwave patterns to help … New Research and Evidence From AHRQ Systematic review (draft open for comment): Radiation Therapy … Systematic review (draft open for comment): Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic … AHRQ in the Professional Literature Two-drug regimens for HIV treatment.

20. Gap Analysis for Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (doc file)
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    November 01, 2019 - ☐ Yes ☐ No Guidelines Does your facility have facility-specific antibiotic treatment guidelines … ☐ Yes ☐ No ☐ N/A Do your guidelines provide recommendations on oral step-down therapy? … ☐ Yes ☐ No ☐ N/A Do your guidelines provide recommendations on duration of therapy? … cephalosporins) ☐ Yes ☐ No ➕Are activities being conducted by the ASP to reduce inappropriate treatment … ☐ Purchasing data ☐ Days of therapy/1,000 patient days ☐ Days of therapy/1,000 days present (National