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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/5s
January 01, 2023 - Also Known As
Sort, Straighten, Scrub, Standardize, and Sustain
Description
This tool … Implementing this tool can provide numerous benefits including increased productivity, improved quality … How do I use this tool?
1. … Expertise Required
This tool is easy to use and requires little or no training. … Martin K. 5S: a powerful tool for creating high-performing healthcare organizations. 2007 Society for
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digital.ahrq.gov/2020-year-review/research-summary/time-surgery-using-patient-reported-outcomes-shared-decision-making-osteoarthritis-patients
January 01, 2020 - Osteoarthritis Patients
Successful validation of a patient-reported outcomes-guided shared decision making tool … Bozic at the University of Texas-Austin (UT-Austin), developed a tool to support shared decision making … The tool is designed to use data from patient-reported outcome (PRO) scores as well as the patient’s … The research team will conduct a randomized controlled trial of use of the tool at UT Austin, and then … care providers and ensuring this is a feasible and pragmatic tool to implement across the country
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/decision-precision-increasing-lung-cancer-screening-risk-patients
January 01, 2023 - Effective Digital Healthcare Interventions Across Healthcare Systems
A shared decision-making tool … Low-dose computed tomography is an effective but underused tool for identifying lung cancer
Lung cancer … The team adapted a previously developed standalone shared decision-making tool for lung cancer screening … The new tool, Decision Precision+, is a SMART on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) app … Already, adoption of the CDS tool is in process with multiple healthcare systems. In addition, Dr.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/translating-hypertension-guidelines-practice-development-interoperable-clinical
January 01, 2023 - Story
Translating hypertension guidelines into a patient-facing clinical decision support tool … This research developed Collaboration Oriented Approach for Controlling HBP (COACH), a CDS tool that … Build CDS artifacts using the CDS Connect Authoring tool and build a FHIR application that can elicit … FHIR interoperable standards were used so that the tool could be interoperable and adopted by others. … Based on survey results, the tool will be modified to meet both patient and provider needs.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-safety-and-quality-emergency-care-using-machine-learning-based
September 30, 2023 - Project Description
Research Story
The use of an emergency department triage tool … This research will design, implement, and evaluate an ED triage clinical decision support (CDS) tool … Incorporating user-centered design methodology, the clinician-facing CDS tool will be developed, built … The researchers will use FHIR standards so the CDS tool can be shareable and interoperable. … The study team expects the digital health tool will display personalized risk predictions for each of
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-evidence-based-nursing-practices-and-electronic-health-record-decision-4
January 01, 2023 - Staff nurse training presentation for the deployment of the CP-CDS tool
Citation
Staff … nurse training presentation for the deployment of the CP-CDS tool
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action-cp-cds-training.pdf
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-anxiety-detection-pediatrics-using-health-information-technology
January 01, 2023 - The ADHD module in CHICA was enhanced to include an anxiety-specific validated screening tool, the … CHICA automatically scores the SCARED screening tool and generates a report with interpretations. … , use of the tool was low and there was no significant difference between the intervention and control … While one caregiver described the tool as helpful for understanding anxiety, several others indicated … Providers also voiced concern about the length of the SCARED tool, but said it was a useful reminder
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/leveraging-health-information-technology-avoid-unnecessary-asymptomatic-carotid-revascularization
January 01, 2023 - This project developed a decision making tool for patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis. … The data were then used to develop the Carotid Artery Risk Assessment Tool (CARAT) to identify patients … The CARAT tool accurately identified patients unlikely to benefit from carotid revascularization, as … Development and pilot feasibility study of a health information technology tool to calculate mortality … risk for patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis: the Carotid Risk Assessment Tool (CARAT).
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/nursing-home-information-technology-it-optimal-medication-and-care-delivery/citation/nursing
January 01, 2023 - The limits of technology: far from a panacea, IT is merely a tool for solving problems. … IT is merely a tool for solving problems. Mod Healthcar 2006 Aug 7;36(31):20.
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/patient-facing-clinical-decision-support-improve-blood-pressure
January 01, 2023 - Interoperable
Translating hypertension guidelines into a patient-facing clinical decision support tool … the Oregon Health and Science University, and his research team hypothesized that a patient-facing tool … The feedback obtained served as the foundation for the creation of their tool, called Collaboration Oriented … available in an implementation guide and built COACH, which brings together the recommendations into a tool … required but feasible to help patients manage blood pressure
The research team iteratively tested the tool
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/closing-communication-gap-between-prescribers-and-pharmacists
January 01, 2023 - Medication Safety Using Digital Healthcare Solutions
Implementing CancelRx, an e-prescribing tool … Communication is key to ensuring medication safety
CancelRx is an e-prescribing tool that electronically … The tool allows pharmacists to have patients’ current prescription information and notifies them when … Pitts sought to identify how this tool directly impacted dispensing after the discontinuation of medication … Pitts is encouraged that this tool has significant impact in reducing medication discrepancies and enhancing
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/knowledge-engineering-decision-support-osteoporosis/citation/comparing-fracture
January 01, 2023 - Comparing fracture absolute risk assessment (FARA) tools: an osteoporosis clinical informatics tool to … Comparing fracture absolute risk assessment (FARA) tools: an osteoporosis clinical informatics tool to
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-otitis-media-care-electronic-health-record-ehr-based-clinical
January 01, 2023 - The project team successfully developed the OM CDS tool and completed its evaluation. … The study found that those practices which used the CDS tool had significantly greater adherence to OM … guidelines than those practices which did not use the tool. … However, the rates of physician adoption of the tool varied markedly and overall were approximately 20 … The team is working to make changes based on feedback from physicians about the tool to improve adoption
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digital.ahrq.gov/2019-year-review/research-summary/helping-patients-better-understand-effective-treatment-options
January 01, 2019 - Understand Effective Treatment Options for Crohn’s Disease
Use of the Crohn’s Disease Prediction Tool … , a validated individualized risk prediction tool plus a web-based decision aid, resulted in improved … The Crohn’s Disease Prediction Tool consists of a previously validated individualized risk prediction … tool and a web-based decision aid. … The tool shows patients the likelihood they will develop complications over a 3-year period.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-electronic-health-records-patient-education-materials
January 01, 2023 - s Health Literacy and Learning Program (HeLP), developed the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool … The tool and user guide is available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/pemat . … details
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Development of the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool … Electronic Health Record/Electronic Medical Record
The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool … Citation: The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) and User’s Guide: An Instrument To
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/engaging-patients-enable-interoperable-lung-cancer-decision-support-scale/citation/patient
January 01, 2024 - Patient perspectives on a patient-facing tool for lung cancer screening. … Patient perspectives on a patient-facing tool for lung cancer screening.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/dissemination-wiseapp-improving-health-outcomes-across-settings/citation/comparison
January 01, 2024 - Comparison of evaluation methods for improving the usability of a Spanish mHealth tool. … Comparison of evaluation methods for improving the usability of a Spanish mHealth tool.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/project-echo-hepatitis-c-ambulatory-care-quality-improvement-new-mexico-through
January 01, 2023 - The specific aims of this project were to:
Develop a disease management tool that will standardize … These sessions identified barriers to adopting the tool and provided feedback for the development of … Pre- and post-tool implementation surveys were conducted. … The project team successfully designed and implemented the iHealth tool. … Patient and clinician focus groups indicated that an HCV patient portal would be a valuable tool for
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/dissemination-wiseapp-improving-health-outcomes-across-settings/citation/evaluation
January 01, 2024 - Comparison of evaluation methods for improving the usability of a Spanish mHealth tool. … Comparison of evaluation methods for improving the usability of a Spanish mHealth tool.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/disseminating-and-implementing-medsmart-families-emergency-departments
September 30, 2024 - Misuse
Project Description
Implementing a mobile game-based tool … This research adapts MedSMA℞T Mobile, a digital health tool that combines an educational game with a … By integrating this tool into ED workflows, the study aims to offer accessible, engaging, and cost-effective … Feedback from ED staff on scaling and sustaining the tool will inform broader implementation at the health … often overlooked population—adolescents and their families—by introducing an engaging mobile game-based tool