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61. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/workgroup/index.html
    August 01, 2025 - and Human Services, as well as representatives from the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans … Affairs.

62. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/008-ss-contact-precautions.pptx
    April 01, 2025 - attributable to increase in hand hygiene adherence at patient room exit MRSA Prevention Initiative – Veterans … ’ Affairs (VA) program9,12 MRSA bundle implemented in VA medical centers Reduced MRSA transmission by … Veterans Affairs initiative to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. … Association between contact precautions and transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Veterans … Affairs Hospitals.

63. National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/nac.html
    March 01, 2025 - health care system issues: The National Institutes of Health (NIH); the Department of Defense (Health Affairs … ) (DoD); the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA

64. Acknowledgments | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/hspc-research-study/acknowledgments.html
    June 01, 2020 - DeBakey Veterans Affairs Center; Baylor College of Medicine).

65. Operational Measurement of Diagnostic Safety: State of the Science | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/state-of-science.html
    September 01, 2020 - DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Hardeep Singh, M.D

66. Prologue: Laying the Foundation (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Prologue_Henriksen_Vol1.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - Indicators (PSI) for use in ICD-10 administrative data, and racial disparities in PSI rates at the Veterans … correct surgical and invasive procedures in New York State, a highly focused effort by the Department of Veterans … Affairs to reduce emergency airway management difficulties, a statewide effort to encourage falls prevention

67. Exhibit 21. No. of total knee arthroplasties at principal hospitals in 2008 compared to the HCUP estimates for different hospital types | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiexh21.html
    April 01, 2018 - TKA = total knee arthroplasties, VA = Department of Veterans Affairs. Return to Document

68. Exhibit 15. Accuracy of adjudicated algorithm at each participating hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiexh15.html
    April 01, 2018 - Predictive Value 99.6%       DH = Denver Health; IH = Intermountain Healthcare; VA SLC HCS = Veterans … Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System; VVMC = Vail Valley Medical Center; SSI = surgical site infection

69. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, Hospital Linkage File, Technical Documentation-Appendix A (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/compendium/chsp_linkage_file_tech_doc-appa.pdf
    October 01, 2018 - Non-Federal General Acute Care Hospitals AHA (1) Not Air Force, Army, Navy, Public Health Service, Veterans … Affairs, Federal other, Indian Health Service, or Department of Justice facilities and (2) the hospital … HCOS (1) Not a government or Veterans Affairs-owned/run facility and (2) flagged as an acute care general … SK&A (1) Not military or Veterans Affairs-owned/run facility and (2) flagged as a general hospital,

70. Measure Dx: A Resource To Identify, Analyze, and Learn From Diagnostic Safety Events | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/tools/measure-dx.html
    March 01, 2024 - DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, under the direction

71. Applying Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) Across Health Care Systems: Achieving Data Comparability (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Rivard.pdf
    May 01, 2004 - This study developed and tested methods for (1) applying PSIs to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) … Acknowledgments The research reported here was supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans … Office of the Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs. … Department of Veterans Affairs strategic plan 2003–2008. … Washington, DC: Department of Veterans Affairs; 2003. p. 5.

72. Miller, David | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/grants/active/kawards/Kawdsummill.html
    October 01, 2014 - Miller Is a Research Scientist at the Veteran's Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research Health

73. Module 3: Falls Prevention and Management | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/ltc/mod3.html
    March 01, 2019 - Department of Veterans Affairs, Los Angeles, CA.

74. Module 1: Detecting Change in a Resident's Condition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/ltc/mod1.html
    March 01, 2019 - Department of Veterans Affairs, Los Angeles, CA.

75. Using a Tiered Approach With CUSP Principles Slides
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/tiered-approach-slides.pptx
    April 01, 2022 - CLABSI and CAUTI from materials developed for CAUTI prevention by faculty and staff at the Department of Veterans … Affairs and the University of Michigan. … CLABSI and CAUTI from materials developed for CAUTI prevention by faculty and staff at the Department of Veterans … Affairs and the University of Michigan.

76. Amendment to Charter | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/organization/nac/nac-amd2000.html
    April 01, 2014 - Administration; the Director of the Office of Personnel Management; the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs … ); and the Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

77. Module 2: Communicating Change in a Resident's Condition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/ltc/mod2.html
    March 01, 2019 - Department of Veterans Affairs, Los Angeles, CA.

78. Exhibit 18. Counts of identified organisms by procedure | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiexh18.html
    April 01, 2018 - 2 Total SSI 13 25 4 3 DH = Denver Health; IH = Intermountain Health; VA SLC = Veterans … Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System; VVMC = Vail Valley Medical Center; CABG = coronary artery

79. Exhibit 13. Accuracy of algorithm at each participating hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiexh13.html
    April 01, 2018 - Negative Predictive Value 99.6% DH = Denver Health; IH = Intermountain Healthcare; VA SLC HCS = Veterans … Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System; VVMC = Vail Valley Medical Center; SSI = surgical site infection

80. From Quality Measures to Quality Care: Examples of Quality Improvement at Work | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-measures/21st-century/challenges.html
    June 01, 2018 - The Department of Veterans Affairs has encouraged local VA hospitals to immunize 100 percent of its patients … against the flu ( Department of Veterans Affairs, 1996 ). … In its 140 long term care facilities, the Department of Veterans Affairs has undertaken a major quality … The Department of Veterans Affairs has also designed an error reduction system in health care for use