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7441. Final Progress Report: ED Staffing and Patient Outcomes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/bickell-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - overcrowding of Emergency Departments (ED) poses a potential threat to the public’s safety and well-being … physician exam would likely reflect a combination of how sick a patient looked upon arrival to the ED as well … Being sent for CT scan was associated with longer lengths of stay in the ED. … the ED to undergo surgical treatment is affected by the level of physician staffing in the ED as well

7442. Slippery Slide Into Life | PSNet
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      January 21, 2017 - trainees and expert instructors, watching the video record of their actions and discussing what went well … , what did not go well, and what can be done to improve performance in the future. … needed to educate those in charge of such resources as to the benefits of simulation will be time well … A depressed neonate is being resuscitated after a delivery complicated by fetal blood loss.

7443. Toolkit 1. Suspected UTI SBAR Toolkit (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK1_T4-Urinalysis_and_UTIs_Improving_Care-updated.pdf
      October 01, 2016 - the most important roles for nurses is communication, specifically knowing what to communicate, as well … — Possible reasons for a change in mental status: Dehydration; being tired; medication side effects … teamstepps-program/resources/additional/check-back-long.html • Questions: — What did you think went well … — What parts seemed to follow the SBAR approach well?

7444. Obesity (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/obesity_hi_impact.pdf
      April 17, 2012 - This report is being generated twice a year. … (A total of 19 topics in this priority area were being tracked in the system as of November 2011.) … By 2008, 68% of the population was deemed overweight, with half of that number being categorized as … Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, CA, and Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, IN) is already well … not effective since most people are unable and unwilling to sustain them; most physicians are not well

7445. Context-Aware Knowledge Delivery into Electronic Health Records - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/k01hs018352-del-fiol-final-report-2013.pdf
      January 01, 2013 - needed on the kinds of information needs that are often unmet and on the reasons why they are not being … The higher rate observed in our study was likely due to the complexity of the patients observed as well … Implementers predicted that the Infobutton Standard will be widely or at least fairly well adopted in … Information needs in office practice: are they being met? … Residents' medical information needs in clinic: are they being met?

7446. Archived: Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening, July 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-2005
      July 11, 2005 - and are at risk for diabetes, elevated blood lipids, increased blood pressure and their sequelae, as well … Being at risk for overweight is defined as a BMI between the 85th and 94th percentile for age and sex … National data that track BMI show an increasing proportion of overweight children and adolescents, as well … Single BMI measures track reasonably well from childhood and adolescence (aged 6-18 years) into young … To provide well-defined and effective approaches to medical and psychological screening in children.

7447. Recommendation: Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/cognitive-impairment-in-older-adults-screening
      February 25, 2020 - This topic is being updated. … The most well-studied screening instrument is the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). … Evaluators assessed 19 common care needs for participants (71 items) and caregivers (15 items) as being … trials (often ≤6 months for pharmacologic agents and ≤1 year for nonpharmacologic interventions), as well

7448. Screening for Dementia - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/T-DyWdyD67ktDMJGDp3jpm
      June 01, 2003 - evidence of their beneficial effects on instrumental activities of daily living is mixed, with the benefit being … disease found no effect on cognition and limited evidence that it delayed institutionalization.36 A well-conducted … no significant differences in caregiver burden between intervention and control groups.40, 41 Four well-conducted … for a service on a 3-point scale (good, fair, poor): Good: Evidence includes consistent results from well-designed … , well-conducted studies in representative populations that directly assess effects on health outcomes

7449. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/angina-heart-attack-treatments_research-protocol.pdf
      December 11, 2012 - While there is a well-established body of clinical evidence supporting the use of GP IIb/IIIa agents … Currently, long-term management decisions are being made based on studies performed before 6 the … collect data required to evaluate the specified eligibility criteria for inclusion in this review, as well … individual studies, we will use the summary ratings of good, fair, and poor based on their adherence to well-accepted … methodological experts who provide input in defining populations, interventions, comparisons, or outcomes as well

7450. Final Progress Report: APPLIED STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY (ASIPS) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/pace-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - CaReNet’s purpose is to improve health and well-being by the application of scientific methods to questions … Some of the community health centers run specific entitlement programs out of their offices, such as well … to assess the specific incidents and trends that may or may not have been reported to the CU DFM as well … We believed that the two taxonomies would point to differing types of events being associated with … quantitative and qualitative approaches to demonstrate their utility for describing medical errors as well

7451. In Conversation With… Rebecca Lawton, PhD | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-rebecca-lawton-phd
      March 24, 2025 - RW : Is there something unique about health care that we do this even less well than other organizations … very readily respond to—questions about equipment in the work environment, whether staff seemed to be well-trained … have access to their records and to pick up on issues around medications or around test results not being

7452. Tk3 T5 Minimum Criteria Nursing Staff Training (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/TK3_T5_Minimum_Criteria_Nursing_Staff_Training.docx
      October 01, 2016 - For example, penicillin no longer works nearly as well to treat pneumococcal pneumonia. … Slide 7 Few New Antibiotics SAY: At the same time, not only are antibiotics not working as well because … It is well proven in the health care industry that repeated use of antibiotics, necessary or not, has … Active diagnoses are those that are currently being treated in your facility.

7453. Implementing a Patient Safety Program at a Large National Health System | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/implementing-patient-safety-program-large-national-health-system
      January 01, 2008 - This initiative is being rolled out initially in intensive care units (ICUs) but will eventually be expanded … I would send them a précis of the latest evidence and say: "Well can you show me evidence to the contrary … transform the level of quality in those hospitals after enormous public scrutiny of their clinical care as well … An investigation of diagnostic accuracy and confidence associated with diagnostic checklists as well … January 29, 2018 Patient safety, resident well-being and continuity of care with different

7454. AHRQ Grant Final Progress Report: Real-Time, Wireless, Networked Feedback for Bed-Tilt Compliance (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/thomas1-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - blinks every 7 seconds to indicate the sensor’s battery and memory health; green represents all is well … The nurses in the unit were aware of the experiment and the fact that the head-of-bed angle was being … A staff physician kept a record of when each patient was intubated or extubated as well as a record … If this was a principal concern, however, it was not well represented in the interviews or in annotations … The probability of an unmonitored bed being in a compliant position was approximately one third the

7455. Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/Wx_w92ukxeDvNShoRQXbhP
      September 06, 2016 - Level of Certainty Description High The available evidence usually includes consistent results from well-designed … , well-conducted studies in representative primary care populations. … 30 which found an RR of 4.59 (95% CI, 2.03-10.39) for hepato- toxicity at 5 years among participants being … 3 trials of rifampin compared with isoniazid found a higher RR for hepatoxicity among participants being … There also was a nonsignifi- cant reduced RR of death from hepatotoxicity among participants being treated

7456. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/migraine-emergency_research-protocol.pdf
      July 18, 2011 - Furthermore, when the initial oral acute treatment fails, subsequent attempts are likely to fail as well … parenteral pharmacological interventions to prevent recurrence of acute migraine headaches in adults after being … In addition, information on funding sources will be collected as well. 22 Decision rules regarding … , United Kingdom) to obtain simultaneous estimates of all interventions compared with placebo, as well … Expert Panel (TEP) to assure that the questions are specific and explicit about what information is being

7457. Care Coordination Quality Measure for Primary Care (CCQM-PC) - Development and Pilot Test of the CCQM-PC (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/coordination/ccqmpc/ccqmp-pc-development.pdf
      July 01, 2016 - Survey development, as well as field operations for the pilot administration of the CCQM-PC, followed … as the features of well- coordinated care and its effects on health care quality. … Subsequent work identified several extant assessments that were deemed to be potentially well suited … relevance of primary care practice-level reliability depends on the nature of the research questions being … whether your sample knows in advance that they will be asked to complete a survey (and why they are being

7458. Final Progress Report: VTE Safety Toolkit: A Systems Approach to Patient Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/zierler-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - The VTE Safety Toolkit consists of diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic algorithms as well as a mandatory … The online Provider Training Module is still being tested, and this part of the study is not complete … 4) Five pregnant patients had CT scans for suspected PE as the initial diagnostic test instead of being

7459. 2022 Updated Results for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/2022-hsops-wps-study-report.pdf
      January 01, 2022 - It includes 27 hospitals that participated in the pilot study from May to June 2021, as well as 13 hospitals … These items ask respondents if there is a problem with providers or staff being verbally aggressive … Aggression From Patients or Visitors In this unit, there is a problem with patients or visitors being … (Item WPC1*) 64 In this unit, there is a problem with patients or visitors being verbally aggressive … For example, for the item “In this unit, there is a problem with patients or visitors being physically

7460. Disposition of Comments Report for Comparative Effectiveness Review 128 Oral Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Colorectal Surgery (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/colorectal-surgery-preparation_disposition-comments.pdf
      April 30, 2014 - Peer Reviewer #1 Methods The search strategies are well detailed and well designed, and the reasons … The value of having a decompressed empty colon as well as the extreme importance of being able to visualize … Peer Reviewer #7 General Report is well structured and organized. Thank you. … TEP #3 Introduction The background is detailed and well stated. Thank you. … TEP #3 Discussion Well-done. Thank you. No further response necessary.