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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/974.html
September 01, 2025 - Learn About AHRQ’s New Quality Indicators Software in September 16 Webinar
Issue Number
974
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
September 9, 2025
Today’s Headlines: Learn About AHRQ’s New Quality Indicators Software in September 16 Webinar . Hando…
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/implementation-guides/implementation-guide1/impguide1step4.html
March 01, 2019 - Step 4: Convene and Disseminate
Implementation Guide Number 1
This Implementation Guide includes suggested steps and tips for implementing initiatives for improving child health care quality from the CMS-funded national evaluation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA)…
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/co-spotlight.html
July 01, 2015 - Spotlight on Colorado
National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program
July 2015
This brief highlights the major strategies, lessons learned, and outcomes from Colorado’s experience in the quality demonstration funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Ch…
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www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/phone-roleplay.html
March 01, 2025 - Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
Tool 5 (continued)
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Table of Contents
Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
Tool 1: Overview
Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital
How CMS Measures the "30-Day All Cause Rehospitalization Ra…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/2025-06/understanding-how-uspstf-works-tf101-updated_2025.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Understanding How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Works
Understanding How the
U.S. Preventive Services
Task Force (USPSTF)
Works
USPSTF 101
January 2025
Goals
• Improve understanding of the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force (USPSTF or Task Force)
• Explain the connection between the US…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/088-or-traffic.pptx
April 01, 2025 - PowerPoint Presentation
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Operating Room Traffic
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
AHRQ Pub. No. 25-0029
April 2025
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
OR Traffic
1
Educational Obj…
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/effect-health-information-technology-health-care-provider-communication
January 01, 2023 - The Effect of Health Information Technology on Healthcare Provider Communication
Project Final Report ( PDF , 293.22 KB) Disclaimer
Disclaimer
The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily r…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/overview-cuspmvp-slides.html
February 01, 2017 - Overview of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program for Application to Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Slide Presentation
AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
Slide 1: AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
Overview of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/assemble/team-slides.html
December 01, 2012 - Assemble the Team
CUSP Toolkit
The Assemble the Team module of the CUSP Toolkit addresses CUSP team composition for your quality improvement initiative.
Note : Slide content is presented below each of the images.
Contents
Slide 1. Cover Slide .
Slide 2. Learning Objectives .
Slide 3. The Unit…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/man3.html
December 01, 2017 - The Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities
Chapter 3. Data Collection and Analysis Using TRIPS
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
The Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities
Chapter 1. Introduction and Prog…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/cooperatives/evidencenow-executive-summary-va.pdf
November 01, 2017 - EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Virginia Cooperative
Virginia Cooperative
Virginia
EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to transform health care delivery by building a critical infrastructure
to help smaller primary ca…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/phone-roleplay.html
March 01, 2025 - Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
Tool 5 (continued)
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
Tool 1: Overview
Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital
How CMS Measures the "30-Day All Cause Rehospitalization Ra…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-review40/gonorrhea-screening-2005
May 15, 2005 - of clinic records over a 29-month period was conducted to determine the value of late pregnancy (34 weeks … Factors
Partner with STD/Symptoms
History of STD
History of PID
Antibiotic Use in Previous 4 Weeks … younger age, African American, greater number of sex partners in last 30 days; antibiotic use in past 4 weeks … Asian
Excluded if not sexually active, not between 13-21 years old, or used antibiotics in past 2 weeks … Control =current diagnosis of gonorrhea within 2 weeks of the date of diagnosis of the case patient and
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/depression-horizon-scan-high-impact-1312.pdf
October 01, 2014 - preliminary data have indicated it produces a rapid (within 2
hours) and relatively sustained (about 1–2 weeks … small opening behind the ear and connects the electrode
to the neurostimulator.25
Between 2 and 4 weeks … symptoms improved both significantly and rapidly and that these effects
lasted from 3 days to several weeks
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/alarm-fatigue-1.pdf
March 01, 2020 - Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 13. Alarm Fatigue
Alarm Fatigue 13-1
13. Alarm Fatigue
Authors: Meghan Woo, Sc.D., and Olivia Bacon
Reviewer: Ann Gaffey, R.N., M.S.N., CPHRM, DFASHRM
Introduction
Alarm fatigue occurs when clinicians experience high exposure to medical device alarms, causing alarm
desensitiz…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/research-gap-primary-care-summary-table.pdf
March 01, 2022 - often than placebo and most likely
lead to discontinuation of therapy during treatment
of up to 12 weeks … to placebo
therapy but still may lead to discontinuation of
therapy during treatment of up to 12 weeks … • Duloxetine most likely increases the risk of falls over
longer treatment (<24 weeks)
• Adverse
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/pelvic-pain-therapies-future_research.pdf
January 01, 2015 - pain is the placebo effect, which
in analgesic trials is often substantial and may have a duration of weeks … To
enhance public engagement, the draft report will be made available for public input for four
weeks … inaction
• Potential to address inequities
We sent a link to the second survey approximately 2 weeks … dose once
daily, administered
orally for 1 week, 60
mg dose once daily,
administered orally for
5 weeks
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs025131-jack-final-report-2022.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Research staff followed up on these emails by calling each site
after four weeks. … If there were no response with sites after 4 weeks, these sites were removed from our
recruitment … carry out the
implementation in terms of having promotional and outreach material, but within a few weeks
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/sleep-apnea-treatment-future_research.pdf
February 01, 2012 - The original plan was for the stakeholder discussion to last 2 weeks; in reality, the
discussion period … Since outcomes generally change rapidly (within a few weeks
or months) after the start of treatment, … Since symptoms generally change rapidly (within a few
weeks) after the start of treatment, data could
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/venous-ulcers-treatment_disposition-comments.pdf
January 27, 2014 - The Jull study
included patients who had venous ulcers for only 2 weeks. … patients with
chronic venous ulcers, meaning patients must have had an
active ulcer for at least 6 weeks … of chronic venous
leg ulcers only and did not evaluate evidence on ulcers
present for less than 6 weeks … Nowhere in
wound care is one going to
use the same therapy for 12,
16 or 20 weeks.