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8801. Implications for Practice Improvement, Research, and Policy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-older-adults3.html
      August 01, 2024 - higher geriatric syndrome diagnosis rates (e.g., UTIs, dementia, and delirium/altered mental status states … five Americans are caregivers 130 and it is estimated that at least 17.7 million individuals in the United … States are family caregivers of someone over age 50 who needs help because of a limitation in physical … A few states have enacted “I am sorry” legislation that prevents healthcare providers’ disclosure of

8802. Final Progress Report: The P4P Decision Tool: A Stakeholder Guide to Exploring and Selecting an Appropriate Pay-for-Performance Program (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/leapfrog-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - , to provide strategies for public and private payers to improve the quality of healthcare in the United … States. … Physician Pay-for-Performance in Medicaid: A Guide for States. … he Center for Healthcare Strategies, 2007. www.chcs.org This guide for states offers lessons from Medicaid

8803. Problem Solving and Escalation – Standards Component Kit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/problem-solving-comp-kit.html
      June 01, 2017 - Problem Solving and Escalation – Standards Component Kit Contents 1. What Are Problem Solving and Escalation? 2. What Is a Problem and What Is a Solution? 3. Where Are Problems Identified? 4. Problem Triage: More on Different Types of Problems 5. Applying the Model for Improvement To Advance Problem …

8804. A Playbook for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in the ICU Setting (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/playbook_revised.pdf
      April 01, 2022 - It is important to reflect that many facilities throughout the United States have achieved their goals … noncommercial purposes (research, clinical or patient education, quality improvement projects) in the United … States, and do not need specific permission to be reprinted and used unless they contain material that … incorporation into software, incorporation into for-profit training courses) or for use outside of the United … States.

8805. Can We Talk? Priorities for Patient Care Differed Among Health Care Providers (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Evanoff.pdf
      January 01, 2003 - .3 More than one-fifth of patients Advances in Patient Safety: Vol. 1 6 hospitalized in the United … States reported hospital system problems, including staff providing conflicting information and staff … In a survey of urban teaching and nonteaching hospitals in the United States and four other countries

8806. Vial Mistakes Involving Heparin | PSNet
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      May 11, 2014 - drug administration error was reported for every 133 anesthetics administered.( 2 ) More recently, the United … States Pharmacopeia's MEDMARX database identified 3298 medication errors in the OR from 1998 to 2005

8807. HERO: New Mexico’s Health Extension as a Model for Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2015 - extension agents (i.e., practice coaches)—and to learn how these programs could serve as models for other States … Dissemination Efforts to Partner States "We helped a lot of small practices... obtain resources they … Shared learning from the New Mexico program continues to build, and it has invited other States, including … the Commonwealth Fund, the New Mexico IMPaCT project also created an online toolkit to help other States … The toolkit shares experiences from all 17 IMPaCT grant model and partner States and explains the core

8808. In Conversation With… Christopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-christopher-p-landrigan-md-mph
      April 01, 2013 - The second problem is that realistically when you look at workforce trends in the United States, with … My suspicion would be that in the States things are more likely to go that way than mandated work hours … Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) oversees all graduate medical education in the United … States, including all accredited residency and fellowship programs. … laparoscopic surgery skills (measured via simulation) have been shown to be worse in sleep-deprived states

8809. Are Residency Duty Hour Rules Improving Patient Safety? | PSNet
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      April 01, 2013 - Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) oversees all graduate medical education in the United … States, including all accredited residency and fellowship programs. … laparoscopic surgery skills (measured via simulation) have been shown to be worse in sleep-deprived states … The second problem is that realistically when you look at workforce trends in the United States, with … My suspicion would be that in the States things are more likely to go that way than mandated work hours

8810. Machine Learning Validation of Medication Regimen Complexity for Critical Care Pharmacist Resource Prediction | Digital Healthcare Research
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      March 31, 2025 - But access to these pharmacists in the United States is lacking.

8811. STATISTICAL BRIEF #489: Transitions in Health Insurance Coverage for Non-Elderly Adults in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population: 2013-2014 and Selected Preceding Two-Year Periods
      meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st489/stat489.shtml
      June 01, 2016 - and middle-income adults to purchase private insurance in the new Marketplaces and the potential for states … By the end of 2014, 26 states and the District of Columbia had expanded their Medicaid programs. … In 2014, newly-available Marketplace insurance and the expansion of Medicaid eligibility in many states … in obtaining more information about access, cost, use, financing, and quality of health care in the United … States.

8812. Hcupcdiffhosp2010-2014Report102616 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/ataglance/HCUPCDiffHosp2010-2014Report102616.pdf
      October 26, 2016 - HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States, with all-payer … METHODS This analysis uses the HCUP SID from 2010 through 2014 from 41 States and the District of … Coding practices vary across hospitals and States, thereby affecting generalization of the results. … Because the reporting of POA can vary across hospitals within and across States, the data were edited

8813. “Safeware”: Safety-Critical Computing and Health Care Information Technology (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Wears_75.pdf
      May 27, 2008 - applied to the design alternatives to: • Determine if and how the system can get into the hazardous states … Such formal analyses of system safety are now required for safety-critical systems in industry in the United … States and European Union34 and should be continuously maintained and updated as experience is gained … The alternative proposed in this article is to begin by envisioning the states the system should never … and then work backward to design, implement, maintain, and operate the system such that either those states

8814. Spotlight Case September 2003 (ppt file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.29_slideshow.ppt
      September 01, 2003 - Smith Ambiguous or incomplete information transmitted Physician states “give rocuronium” without

8815. Dementia-Nursing-Home-Characteristics Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/dementia-nursing-home-characteristics_executive.pdf
      October 01, 2012 - States annually.4 Characteristics of Long-Term Care Settings One relevant question to ask is whether … English language (consistent with our focus on characteristics, structures, and processes in the United … States) and humans. … States so the evidence examined would be relevant to care in this country. … Trends in the supply of long-term-care facilities and beds in the United States.

8816. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867700/psn-pdf
      March 01, 2023 - Toolkit for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections. March 1, 2023 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Toolkit for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections. March 2023. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/toolkit-reducing-central-line-associated-blood-stream-infections Eliminatin…

8817. Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/shuttered/toolkitchecklist/surgetkit2.html
      July 01, 2018 - Investigate the existence of agreements between neighboring States for waiving license verification in … place for declared disaster situations, mutual recognition systems, and agreements between neighboring States

8818. Methodology Report #9: Design, Methods, and Field Results of the 1996 MEPS Medical Provider Component
      meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/mr9/mr9.shtml
      May 01, 2000 - of 8,655 families, totaling approximately 23,000 individuals in 195 different communities across the United … States.

8819. Disposition of Comments Report for Cardiac Troponins Used as Diagnostic and Prognostic Tests in Patients Wtih Kidney Disease (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/renal-function_disposition-comments.pdf
      August 11, 2014 - information about the cardiac troponin assays, including 1) its detection in normal and abnormal states … TEP #2 Executive Summary Page1,Troponin Detection in Normal And Disease states-There may be some … Page ES-1-The report states that troponin is low but measurable in normal individuals. … In fact, this seems contradictory to the first conclusion paragraph that states no conclusive evidence

8820. Disposition of Comments for CER 195 Management of Uterine Fibroids (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-195-disposition-comments-uterine-fibroids.pdf
      December 14, 2017 - Allergan is conducting a Phase III development program specifically in the United States with two Phase … the following sentence to the Pharmaceutical Management Overview and Nomenclature section "In the United … Allergan acquired the rights to develop and market Ulipristal upon approval in the United States, for … States, in the willingness of individuals to participate in clinical trials. … States is a leader in the conduct of clinical trials.