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2341. Wound Classification (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/webinars/webinar6_pu_woundassesst.pdf
      April 01, 2011 - Wound Classification Wound Classification Presented by Dr. Karen Zulkowski, D.N.S., RN Montana State University Welcome! Thank you for joining this webinar about how to assess and measure a wound. 2 A Little About Myself… • Associate professor at Montana State University • Executive editor of the Jour…

2342. Pain Management Injection Therapies for Low-back Pain: Topic Refinement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/lbpinject-topicref.pdf
      March 03, 2014 - Estimates and patterns of direct health care expenditures among individuals with back pain in the United … States.

2343. Implementation Guide for the CANDOR Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/impguide.html
      August 01, 2022 - problems associated with injury and harm due to processes of patient care persist. 1 Although the United … States provides some of the best health care in the world, unsafe health care processes harm an alarming

2344. Final Progress Report: Managing the Health Needs of Vulnerable Children (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/seid-sobo-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - At risk in America: The health and health care needs of vulnerable populations in the United States.

2345. 1 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/reports-and-case-studies/ExecSummcaseplancustsvce-RAND7607.pdf
      July 01, 2007 - care benefits plan founded in the 1980s, serving 500,000 members in the northeastern region of the United … States.

2346. Final Report: Collaborative Clinical Culture and Quality of Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/greenfield-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - widespread calls for systems change interventions to improve the quality of chronic disease care in the United … States and the highly variable rates of success of such interventions in improving patient outcomes

2347. Final Progress Report: MammoTutor: An Internet-Based Computer Tutoring System to Teach General Radiologists the Early Signs of Breast Cancer (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/mello-thoms-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - Differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis and cancer-specific survival by race and ethnicity in the United … States.

2348. Final progress Report: Spaced Education to Optimize Prostate Cancer Screening (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/kerfoot-conlin-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - For the average man in the United States, an estimated life expectancy of 10 years is reached at age

2349. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bacteremia
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/bacteremia-slides.pptx
      November 01, 2019 - time they produce carbapenemase enzymes10 KPC carbapenemases are the most common carbapenemases in the United … States Consult infectious diseases for treatment recommendations Some general rules:11-14 Beta-lactam

2350. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 8: Approaches to Quality Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-8-approaches-to-qi.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - History of the Current Quality Improvement Paradigm In the United States, there has been an evolution

2351. PowerPoint Presentation: Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/ASB-UTI-slides.pptx
      November 01, 2019 - but increasing rates of E. coli that are resistant to these agents is of concern in many parts of the United … States.

2352. PowerPoint Presentation
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/gastro-slides.pptx
      November 01, 2019 - Diverticulitis in the United States: 1998-2005: changing patterns of disease and treatment.

2353. INTEGRATING CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK CALCULATORS INTO PRIMARY CARE (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/cvd-risk-calculator.pdf
      February 01, 2022 - disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death for men and women across most racial and ethnic groups in the United … States.

2354. Role of the External Coach in Advancing Research Translation in Hospital-Based Performance Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Donaldson_87.pdf
      April 23, 2008 - Role of the External Coach in Advancing Research Translation in Hospital-Based Performance Improvement Role of the External Coach in Advancing Research Translation in Hospital-Based Performance Improvement Nancy Donaldson, RN, DNSc, FAAN; Dana Rutledge, RN, PhD; Kristin Geiser, PhD Abstract The Califo…

2355. Clinical-Community Relationships Evaluation Roadmap (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/ccreroadmap.pdf
      July 01, 2013 - effective and feasible in improving the delivery of clinical preventive services recommended by the United … States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). … The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issues recommendations for the delivery of … The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States.

2356. Final Progress Report: Health Journalism 2007, National Conference On Health Care Journalism (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/bruzzese1-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - briefing was just one highlight of the conference, which drew more than 400 attendees from across the United … States and from as far away as Hong Kong and Switzerland.

2357. Implementation of a Data-based Medical Event Reporting System in the U.S. Department of Defense (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Davis.pdf
      February 12, 2004 - The 2001 National Defense Authorization Act, Patient Safety Section states, “The Secretary of Defense … publications containing quality assurance- derived information are protected from release under 10 United … States Code Section 1102.

2358. Chapter 2. Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssi2.html
      April 01, 2018 - measure of how well the reviewer perceives the differences in signal between the diseased and nondiseased states … , fever, procalcitonin (not helpful, as this laboratory measurement is not readily available in the United … States), erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, microbiology results, and antimicrobial

2359. Final Progress Report: Hospital Volume and Quality of Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/picone-jollis-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Heart disease is the leading cause of mortality in the United States, and most of these deaths involve … NIS contains all discharge data from approximately 1,000 hospitals located in 22 states between 1988

2360. Medication Discrepancies and Potential Adverse Drug Events During Transfer of Care from Hospital to Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/neumiller.html
      August 01, 2017 - description of the discrepancy (e.g., medication not listed on patient’s discharge list, prescription states … participants in the present study included patients receiving care from one health system in the Northwestern United … States, and our findings may not be generalizable to other health systems or health care that patients