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  1. Fall TIPS: A Patient-Centered Fall Prevention Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-tips/index.html
    February 01, 2021 - has reduced falls by 25 percent in acute care hospitals and is used in more than 100 hospitals in the United … States and internationally.

  2. EvidenceNOW Building State Capacity Profile: Michigan Cooperative (pdf file)

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/EvidenceNOW-BSC-MI-profile.pdf
    September 01, 2021 - primary care by working with health care organizations, public health, and primary care practices in states … Over three years, grantees in four states – Alabama, Ohio, Michigan, and Tennessee – will form cooperatives … Background Michigan is among the top 10 states with the highest cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden … in the United States, with heart disease the leading cause of death for both men and women.

  3. Labor and Delivery Unit Safety (pdf file)

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/labor-delivery-unit/ldusafety_facguide.pdf
    May 01, 2017 - externally developed examples are available as part of perinatal safety and quality initiatives of states

  4. SOPS Surveys | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/index.html
    January 01, 2023 - users should contact SafetyCultureSurveys@westat.com for permission to use the survey outside the United … States.

  5. SOPS Ambulatory Surgery Center Database | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sops/databases/asc/index.html
    February 01, 2024 - Safety Culture from 59 ambulatory surgery centers that participated in a pilot test of the survey in the United … States in 2014. 

  6. Research Initiative in Clinical Economics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/rice/index.html
    August 01, 2018 - Valuation of the EuroQol EQ-5D™ Health States has established population-based preference values for … the EQ-5D™'s 243 health states for use in the United States and compared EQ-5D™ health state values of … Valuation of the EuroQol EQ-5D™ Health States .

  7. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/overview-off-ventilator-slides.html
    February 01, 2017 - Mead Slide 5: Impact of Mechanical Ventilation Affects 800,000 hospitalized patients in the United … States each year. 1 Five to 10 percent of mechanically ventilated patients develop a ventilator-associated … The epidemiology of mechanical ventilation use in the United States. … A total of 1,071 intensive care units in 45 States. A 43 percent reduction in CLABSI rates. … The epidemiology of mechanical ventilation use in the United States.

  8. Hospital Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/about.html
    December 01, 2017 - Preventing Falls in Hospitals Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United … States fall in the hospital. … Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Each year, more than 2.5 million people in the United States

  9. Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/policymakers/hrqa99a.html
    October 01, 2014 - —S.580— Select for   PDF version - 167.27 KB One Hundred Sixth Congress of the United States of … Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress

  10. Hospital Deaths for Common Heart Conditions Increased While Hospitalizations Decreased During the First Year of COVID-19 (pdf file)

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/qdr-data-spotlight-heart-failure-hospital.pdf
    July 01, 2023 - Ten leading underlying causes of mortality in the United States, total population, 2016-2020 Influenza … States between 2016 and 2020. … States and that considerable disparities exist among racial and ethnic groups in terms of hospitalization … States, including deaths due to the most common types of 11 heart disease: ischemic heart disease … Heterogeneous trends in burden of heart disease mortality by subtypes in the United States, 1999-2018

  11. Creating Capacity for Improvement in Primary Care, No. 1 (pdf file)

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/pcmhqi1_0.pdf
    April 01, 2013 - to emphasize QI and practice redesign in ways that could fundamentally improve health care in the United … States. … States, from $2 million to $21 million, or $200 to $400 per discharge. … States, ambulatory care practices—and primary care practices in particular—lack a well-developed QI … Given the structure of primary care in the United States, a QI infrastructure external to practices holds

  12. AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer Reports: Shaping Patient Safety Efforts in the 21st Century | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/index.html
    July 01, 2023 - attention and successful interventions in recent years, patient safety remains a significant problem in the United … States.

  13. Tobacco Use and Dependence, General References (pdf file)

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/clinicians-providers/guidelines-recommendations/tobacco/clinicians/references/tobaccogenrefs.pdf
    January 01, 2010 - Health, United States, 2006, with chartbook on trends in the health of Americans. … Cigarette smoking among adults—United States, 2003. MMWR 2005;54:509-13. 16. … Actual causes of death in the United States. JAMA 1993;270:2207-12. 39. … Tobacco use among adults—United States, 2005. MMWR 2006;55:1145-8. 40. … Employer coverage of clinical preventive services in the United States.

  14. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/policy/foia/index.html
    September 01, 2018 - For a general overview of the Freedom of Information Act, read the United States Department of Justice

  15. How To Manage Change

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module2/module2_slides_fallprev.pptx
    August 24, 2017 - How To Manage Change How To Manage Change ADD Hospital Name Here Module 2 QI Change Process Change process strategies can be applied to other quality improvement efforts: Hospital-acquired pressure injuries Catheter-associated urinary tract infections Deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism following knee and/o…

  16. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) User Support (HCUP-US) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/otherwebsites/hcupnet.ahrq.gov/index.html
    September 01, 2014 - HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States, with all-payer

  17. Physician and Physician Practice Research Database (3P-RD) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/data/innovations/3p-rd.html
    April 01, 2024 - Panel Survey (MEPS) AHRQ Quality Indicator Tools for Data Analytics State Snapshots United … States Health Information Knowledgebase Data Sources Available from AHRQ … Practice Research Database (3P-RD) captures characteristics of physicians and physician practices in 13 states … The database describes the supply of physician services available across selected states for data year … Data Files in 3P-RD The PUF versions of 3P-RD consist of 52 individual data files as each of the 13 states

  18. We Must Not Underestimate the Impacts of Gun Violence on Healthcare Workers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/impacts-gun-violence.html
    March 01, 2023 - These violent incidents have been common in the United States, but we must not accept them as such.

  19. Databases Used for Hospital Quality Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/hospitals/databases.html
    January 01, 2023 - HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States, with all-payer

  20. With A Little Help, AHRQ Rethinks the Future of Healthcare Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    pcmh.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/future-healthcare-quality.html
    December 01, 2022 - In seven years, the United States is expected to reach a demographic tipping point that will redraw the
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