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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Leonhardt_35.pdf
March 15, 2008 - education and training on
medication safety and the importance of communication with providers, as well … Patients were sampled within ambulatory care clinics
when being seen by primary care providers. … “Being visually impaired, the bag helps me keep my medications in one place and
allows me to take it … This project identified the need to address both patient and provider issues, as well as the
importance … medication reconciliation
in the outpatient setting, “best practices” identified in this study are being
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/maternal-safety
January 10, 2024 - Maternal deaths occur while pregnant or within 42 days of being pregnant. … morbidity and maternal mortality, 18 though the increased risk can be due to underlying conditions as well … The incidence of preeclampsia is estimated to occur in between 5 and 7 percent of all pregnancies, being … Understand the context of the solutions to determine what is already being done to address the recommendation
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2015-11-nac/nacmtg1115-minutes.html
May 01, 2016 - Practices are being recruited. … Areas being addressed include the following: patient-reported outcomes, patient-generated data, care … White praised MEPS for being comprehensive, longitudinal, free, de-identified, and documented. … process has usability, incorporates human factors knowledge, integrates measurement capability, fits well
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/osteoporosis-screening-2002
September 17, 2002 - The likelihood of being diagnosed with osteoporosis varies greatly depending on the site and type of … The likelihood of being diagnosed with osteoporosis varies greatly depending on the site and type of … FIT, as well as other therapy trials, enrolled highly selected patients thus limiting the generalizability
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/CMS-Aug-23-board-session.pdf
August 22, 2023 - quality
Variance in health systems’ ability to integrate data for
improvement creates choppy data being … health or care outside of hospitals
Boards do not have enough time for the depth of
quality oversight being … https://ihi.org/BoardQuality
The Governance of Quality Assessment
Category 6 | Help Me Stay Well
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/healthyliving/qdr2015-chartbook-healthyliving.pptx
January 01, 2020 - promote wide use of best practices to enable healthy living
LONG-TERM GOALS
Promote healthy living and well-being … Promote healthy living and well-being through interventions that result in adoption of the most important … Promote healthy living and well-being through receipt of effective clinical preventive services across … health is one that is shared across the country, whether it is promoting healthy behaviors, such as being … 6 well-child visits between 12 and 36 months of age, and
1 well-child visit per year from ages 3 to 21
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017010-bailey-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - As an academic center with
responsibility for large numbers of chronically ill children, we were well … incidence of 50.1 ADEs per 1000 patient-years.(19)
ADEs occurring in the ambulatory setting are a well … While
these drug-related morbidities are well recognized, little is known about the actual incidence … laboratory data; and they will frequently receive corrective therapy without laboratory
information being … Further, the reasons for ADEs being missed by the
automated system indicate that nearly half were discovered
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/09-10-0091-1-EF.pdf
October 01, 2009 - • Develop applicable “use cases” to evaluate how well information design in primary care
health IT … increase life expectancy, reduce health
disparities, and support a state of physical, mental, and social well-being … This is true with paper as well as electronic records. … This includes the ability to mask specific data elements as well as alert providers
to the fact that … increase life expectancy, reduce health
disparities, and support a state of physical, mental, and social well-being
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/insulin-blood-sugar-2010_disposition-comments.pdf
January 01, 2010 - Peer Reviewer 2 Introduction Frames the study well. … SMBG despite there being
improved HbA1c associated with rt-CGM. … The key points are well described and clear. … Yes, the conclusions are useful for
both policy as well as practice. … For instance, the device was not being
used appropriately.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r21hs018749-nease-final-report-2013.pdf
January 01, 2013 - opportunity to explore the effects of HIE adoption on ambulatory testing rates more
broadly for a well-defined … opportunity to explore the effects of HIE adoption on ambulatory testing rates more
broadly for a well-defined … 40% local market share), providing commercial
insurance (covering 35% of local commercial lives) as well … quarter after the practice began participation in the QHN system
(receiving test results from QHN and being … avoids analytical problems related to confounding by intention observed in other
studies (eg, HIE use being
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024330-ye-final-report-2018.pdf
January 01, 2018 - pilot evaluate the SLEEPkit, including its effectiveness on patient’s sleep during hospitalization, as
well … Scope
Sleep is a fundamental human need for survival, health, and well-being [1]. … highly reliable, precise instruments of
patient-reported health status for physical, mental, and social well-being
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/AppendixEAHRQProjectDetails.jsp
October 05, 2010 - models for selected inpatient quality indications and patient safety indicators using data elements being … determine whether additional clinical data can be used to improve the validity of outcome measures as well … permit the study team to "jump-start" the analytic phase of this research with a large high-quality, well-validated … database that parallels data being collected from participating hospitals. … data-quality screening methods and evaluation of their usefulness in programs to improve data quality well
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/b4_pdi_documentationcoding.pdf
March 15, 2016 - Also needed is a well-established process through which clinical documentation
improvement (CDI) specialists … It is important to have a well-defined
query process to ensure that your clinical documentation specialists … The quality of
staff’s initial training, as well as their ability to stay abreast of current guidelines … of missed cases that should have been detected,
which would result in the number of true positives being … Assign the correct seventh digit
character “A” if the infection is being
actively treated regardless
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/antipsychotic/qi-strategies.html
July 01, 2021 - psychosocial services for management of conditions for which multiple concurrent antipsychotic medications are being … Information on considerations for selecting appropriate improvement targets is also presented, as well … following activities in a stepwise fashion:
Reviewed the HEDIS national performance benchmarks as well … in the collaborative to compare baseline performance rates to the national and state benchmarks, as well … required providers to document that a child had first received a trial of psychosocial care before being
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/greenes-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Many medical errors classifiable as potential causes of adverse events were
identified as well. … The problem of late-arriving laboratory data in the ED is well understood using
this model. … ALARMS
Phase 1 of the study was completed with ALARMS running in “the background” (that
is, without being … 1
Other
Elevated cardiac troponin 1
Positive urine pregnancy test 1
Phases 3 and 4
ALARMS is now being … The system has been very well received by clinicians, who have been impressed by the
quantity of late-arriving
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ptsd-5-protocol-update-2023.pdf
January 01, 2023 - These data will be available through the
resulting report and excel files, as well as the PTSD-Repository … including PTSD symptoms and diagnosis, substance use, anxiety,
depression, and quality of life; as well … or facilitate posttraumatic
growth are excluded unless they are
designed to treat PTSD directly as well … 5.2) Is the numerical result being assessed likely to have been selected, on the basis of the results … 5.3) Is the numerical result being assessed likely to have been selected, on the basis of the results
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Siddharthan.pdf
January 10, 2005 - of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit studies in allocation of
resources in health care has been well-documented … schedules and work-related injuries on caregiver
burnout, especially in high-risk units, has been well … includes patient-specific
A Cost-effective Safe Patient Handling Program
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characteristics, as well … occupational health
departments, we characterized the initial and subsequent medical evaluations as
being … Approximately
half of the injuries resulted in caregivers being placed on restricted duty.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Snow.pdf
January 01, 2010 - abstracted directly from patients’
medical records are analyzed to determine the residents’ performance as well … which, according to NCQA, result in more than 57,000 U.S. deaths annually,
patient safety is certainly being … The AOA has facilitated the development of the AOA-CAP to evaluate safety
through a pilot project as well … program is a retrospective evaluation of care delivery within
each of these measure sets, which has a well-developed … programs become
engaged in the patient safety improvement loop, future directions of the program
are being
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Mitchell.pdf
March 31, 2004 - have also been successful in educating leadership and
frontline staff in patient safety concepts as well … for curriculum development and experiential education for faculty
leaders across the disciplines is well … Similar needs for interprofessional education as part of the required curricula for
students as well … We are particularly indebted to John Gosbee, who generously
shared many materials and approaches being … However, they also rated their own knowledge as being about half of
that found in the domain of patient
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/university-texas-system-clinical-safety-and-effectiveness-course
February 01, 2011 - Continuing medical education is now being offered as a part of the course. … This course relies heavily on these experienced clinicians as well as local experts in Six Sigma, Lean … Graduates are being promoted to leadership positions (e.g., physician medical directors), leading efforts