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321. Changing-System-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/changing-system-facilitator-guide.docx
     June 01, 2021 - What empiric therapy should I initiate? … Current recommendations suggest that an appropriate duration of treatment for cellulitis is 5–7 days. … Fourteen days of therapy is too long. … Can we narrow therapy? … to long-term care, the new order for amoxicillin/clavulanic acid did not account for the 3 days of treatment

322. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/search.html?page=8
     November 01, 2016 - October 2016 Publication Number: 16(17)-0015-9-EF Chartbook on Effective Treatment … This chartbook includes a summary of quality and disparities across measures of effective treatment … September 2016 Publication Number: 16-0015-8-EF Consumer Guide - Comparing Talk Therapy … and other Depression Treatments with Antidepressant Medicines. … This guide compares talk therapy and other depression treatments with antidepressants.

323. Reducing the Use of Short-acting Nifedipine by Hypertensives Using a Pharmaceutical Database (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Furmaga.pdf
     January 01, 2005 - The provider was contacted to recommend alternate therapy in 57 (22 percent) of the patients prescribed … facility level in order to take advantage of established relationships between local pharmacy and therapeutics … helped to target drug interactions, medication adherence, and issues requiring prescriber feedback on therapeutic … The risk of myocardial infarction associated with antihypertensive drug therapies. … National use of postmenopausal hormone therapy: annual trends and response to recent evidence.

324. 145. Treatment Recommendations: Medications-Nicotine Patch | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/presentations/2008update-full/slide145.html
     October 01, 2014 - Treatment Recommendations: Medications-Nicotine Patch Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 … Skin reactions are usually mild and self-limiting, but occasionally worsen over the course of therapy … Local treatment with hydrocortisone cream (1%) or triamcinolone cream (0.5%) and rotating patch sites … In less than 5% of patients, such reactions require the discontinuation of nicotine patch treatment. … Dosage Treatment of 8 weeks or less has been shown to be as efficacious as longer treatment periods

325. Communication Strategies to Promote Resident Safety
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/educational-bundles/communication-and-teamwork/communication-strategies.pptx
     September 01, 2016 - Communication was the most commonly occurring root cause leading to delays in treatment, elopement-related … A physical therapy aide is working with Mr. Larkin who is exercising in the gym. … The physical therapy aide notes that Mr. … Let's see what happens when Olivia the physical therapy aide uses CUS. … Larkin if the physical therapy aide didn't speak up? He could've easily passed out.

326. New Interactive Data Resource Illustrates Trends in Sepsis Hospital Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/949.html
     March 01, 2025 - In a study that compared 67,046 patients who received delayed broad-spectrum therapy with 67,046 patients … who received early broad-spectrum therapy, the authors found that death occurred in 8.7 percent of delayed … broad-spectrum treatment cases, adverse drug events in 8.4 percent and readmission in 10.5 percent. … In contrast, after early treatment, death occurred in 9.5 percent of cases, adverse drug events in 7.2 … These findings demonstrated that beginning therapy with narrower-spectrum antibiotics may not pose significant

327. Asymptomatic Bacteriuria One Pager (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/one-pager-asymptomatic-bacteriuria.pdf
     June 01, 2021 - Treatment • The majority of people with ASB and/or asymptomatic pyuria SHOULD NOT be treated with … • Treatment of ASB does not prevent future UTIs. … Antimicrobial treatment in diabetic women with asymptomatic bacteriuria. … Prospective randomized comparison of therapy and no therapy for asymptomatic bacteriuria in institutionalized … No. 17(21)-0029 June 2021 Diagnosis Treatment Frequently Asked Questions References

328. Gap Analysis for Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/improve/gap_analysis_tool.docx
     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

329. Timely Antibiotics for Children With Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0230-fullreport.pdf
     April 02, 2018 - One essential element of timely and appropriate treatment is prompt initiation of antimicrobial therapy … Outcomes of Timely Treatment, Including Prompt Initiation of Antimicrobial Therapy Early recognition … and hemodynamic (i.e., relating to the forces driving blood flow throughout the body) treatments. … Therapeutic endpoints of resuscitation include capillary refill of 2 seconds or less, normal pulses … therapy.

330. Collecting Bacterial Cultures (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/poster-bacterial-cultures.pdf
     June 01, 2021 - recommendations to obtain a good specimen that can be used to diagnose the infection and guide antibiotic therapy

331. Screening for Thyroid Disease: Systematic Evidence Review (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/prevent/pdfser/thyrser.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - We conducted a separate search for controlled studies of the effect of thyroid- directed treatments … of levothyroxine therapy. … Quality of Randomized Trials of Thyroxine Replacement Therapy *Analysis based on assignment to treatment … Unaware of Treatment? … (Estrogen therapy allowed.)

332. National Hospital Week Spotlight on Patient Safety Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/957.html
     May 01, 2025 - AHRQ Analyses: Psychotherapy Grows While Medication-Only Treatment Declines; Gains Have Mostly Benefitted … Two new AHRQ studies have identified that the use of psychotherapy is growing while medication-only treatments … Medical Expenditure Panel Survey from 2018 to 2021 and found that more patients are opting solely for therapy … , and the average number of therapy sessions has increased, along with national spending on psychotherapy … In addition, psychiatrists are providing less of the therapy, with more patients being seen by non-physician

333. Imbedding Research in Practice to Improve Medication Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Raebel_53.pdf
     May 07, 2008 - prescribed critically interacting drugs (Critical Drug Interactions); (2) receive anticoagulation treatment … During ongoing therapy: • N = 9,139 patients received prescriptions for ongoing therapy with any of … States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pregnancy risk category D (i.e., evidence of fetal risk; therapeutic … outweigh the risk) or category X (i.e., evidence suggests that the risk to the fetus outweighs the therapeutic … Note: If therapeutic equivalent drug substitution for amitriptyline is authorized by the RDCs in the

334. Health Systems Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/opioids/health-systems-research.html
     July 01, 2021 - disorder epidemic, from improving management of prescription opioids in clinical care to screening and treatment … MAT in Rural Primary Care Practices AHRQ awarded funds to five Primary Care Medication-Assisted Treatment … the use of screening for unhealthy alcohol use, brief intervention for those at risk, and medication therapy … Improving the Safety of Diagnosis and Therapy in the Inpatient Setting. … The effects of State policies on opioid use disorders in pregnant women: prevalence, treatment, and outcomes

335. Studies in Meta-analyses (continued, 4) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/references/meta/meta04.html
     December 01, 2012 - Transdermal nicotine therapy and primary care. … Two studies of the clinical effectiveness of the nicotine patch with different counseling treatments. … Mood management and nicotine gum in smoking treatment: a therapeutic contact and placebo-controlled study … Evaluation of a treatment approach combining nicotine gum with self-guided behavioral treatments for … Nortriptyline and cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of cigarette smoking.

336. Section 5.A, Table 4 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-0138-section-5a.pdf
     December 01, 2013 - All children had received prophylactic penicillin therapy for at least 2 years immediately prior to … difference in the incidence of bacteremia or meningitis caused by streptococcus pneumoniae between the treatment … The authors concluded that prophylactic penicillin therapy can safely be stopped at age 5 for children

337. 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%.

338. Articulate Word Output (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/primary-prevention-cvd-with-statins.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - And, finally, to examine effective techniques for encouraging adherence to statin therapy. 4 Mr … It assumes a relative risk reduction of 25% with statin therapy. … Adherence to Statins for Primary Prevention But once you and your patient have decided the statin therapy … reduce or eliminate such symptoms. 20 Other Issues Just a few other salient issues in statin therapy … Gray 5 Why is lipid screening and treatment important?

339. AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use: Final Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/overall-antibiotic-stewardship-project-final-report.pdf
     September 01, 2022 - associated with increased healthcare costs and delayed recovery among patients resistant to initial treatment … behavioral drivers of antibiotic decision making, and reviews of best practices in the diagnosis and treatment … In addition, these documents could form the basis of local diagnostic and treatment guidelines or could … Can I narrow therapy or change from intravenous to oral therapy? 4. … What empiric therapy should be used? 3.

340. CAHPS Cancer Care Supplemental Items (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/suppl-items-cancer-english-557a.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - MODALITY] with the appropriate term: radiation therapy, drug therapy, or cancer surgery. … Since it was decided that you would have [CANCER TREATMENT MODALITY], did your [CANCER TREATMENT MODALITY … , including the treatments you did not get? … , including the treatments you did not get? … , including the treatments you did not get?