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8581. Spotlight
      psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/final_spotlight_case_open_wound_of_the_elbow_slides_09.19.2024.pptx
      January 01, 2024 - for foreign body.4 Impalement injuries may result in fragments of clothing, or the impaled object being … in a comfortable (usually supine) position, wounds should be examined to their base in a bloodless, well-exposed … the “wad” (a plastic cup positioned between the powder charge and the shot in the shotgun shell), as well … thrive, especially anaerobic bacteria. 38 38 To Close or Not to Close… (2) Clean, relatively fresh, well-irrigated

8582. Archived: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/colorectal-cancer-screening-june-2016
      June 15, 2016 - effective than others, although they have varying levels of evidence supporting their effectiveness, as well … than others, although the tests have varying levels of evidence supporting their effectiveness, as well … A prospective cohort study also found an association between patients who self-reported being screened … As an invasive procedure, colonoscopy can produce important morbidity as well as anxiety and discomfort … harms include additional diagnostic testing of an abnormality that is of no clinical importance, as well

8583. Computerized Provider Order Entry - Inpatient | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2023 - alliance with provider organizations that allowed for financial discounts on products and services as well … This level of support should be factored into the training process as well as the development and planning … Alert fatigue can result from an abundance of medically inconsequential CDSS alerts being displayed when

8584. S50 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/s50.pdf
      October 01, 2007 - RCTs use relatively simple computations and fairly small sample sizes, which were well suited to the … Unfortunately, results of ITT analyses do not reflect efficacy of the treatment being studied, because … However, many interventions do not lend themselves well to blinding of any kind (eg, many physical therapy … and outcome data that are suggested by transdisciplinary clinicians who treat the types of patients being

8585. Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Topic Refinement - Project ID: CRDT0913 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/afib_topicref.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - control in patients with AF, pharmacologic therapy is typically the first choice, with catheter ablation being … Because catheter ablation is increasingly being used to treat AF patients in the Medicare population … stages for FDA approval • Studies in which PV electrical isolation was not the goal of ablation as well … Suggestions regarding evaluation of such provider characteristics as well as specific patient factors

8586. Final Progress Report: Developing a Medical Biometric Identification System with a Secure Database Network That Can Access Electronic Medical Databases (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/sohn-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Scope:  The patient identification and procedure verification is a well‐known problem in the medical … Scope Background  and  Context:  The patient  identification  and  procedure  verification  is  a  well‐known … patient,  a  scanned  fingerprint  is  sent  to  the  fingerprint  matching  application  that  is  being … security  policy  (ID,  PASSWORD,  and  FINGERPRINT)  that  protects  the  system  from  being

8587. Accreditation and Regulation: Can They Help Improve Patient Safety? | PSNet
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      April 01, 2009 - rules be clear, compliance be observable, and performance be fully in control of the hospital or agency being … Health care is a very complex system, and it is difficult and dangerous to assume that well-intentioned … We asked him to speak with us about his role at The Joint Commission, as well as future directions for … So far that has worked really well. … But they are already out there on individual physicians as well as on organizations.

8588. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866839/psn-pdf
      September 25, 2024 - for a foreign body.4 Impalement injuries may result in fragments of clothing, or the impaled object being … in a comfortable (usually supine) position, wounds should be examined to their base in a bloodless, well-exposed … the “wad” (a plastic cup positioned between the powder charge and the shot in the shotgun shell), as well … Clean, relatively fresh, well-irrigated traumatic lacerations, without retained foreign material or damaged

8589. Continuity of Insurance: Informed Participation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/duration/chipra-153-fullreport.pdf
      May 23, 2018 - was a decrease from 10.9 percent to 10.0 percent in uninsured children from 2007 to 2010, which is being … disenroll from Medicaid/CHIP and are subsequently uninsured or switch to private insurance have fewer well … An analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that being insured increased … of this report, we define the reliability of the metrics as their ability to produce consistent as well … (7) All five measures performed well with regard to predictive validity and positive (CHIPRA core

8590. Final Progress Report: Engineering Safe Care Journeys for Vulnerable Older Adults (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/smith-werner-carayon-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - We convened an Intervention Implementation team of our Human Factors Engineering team as well as ED … On average, the patient/care partner representative rated usability issues as being more significant … I find the elements of the DI well organized. 2.8 (1, 5) 2.3 (1, 5) Less 6. … the skilled nursing facility Nurse Practitioner who cares for the older adult that their patient was being … responses indicated that, before implementation, they often did not know when one of their patients was being

8591. Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup: PC CDS Planning, Implementation, and Reporting User Guide (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/User%20Guide_SMD%20Planning_%20Implementation_%20Reporting_508.pdf
      August 01, 2023 - patient (e.g., patient-generated health data [PGHD], social determinants of health [SDOH] data, as well … before implementation begins for planning purposes, during implementation to ensure key steps are being … description of what implementation and patient-centered activities to consider for each task, as well … To understand the extent to which PC CDS is being used, implementers can consider: Scaling, Measurement … quintuple aim,” which focuses on improved patient experience, better outcomes, lower costs, clinician well-being

8592. Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup: PC CDS Planning, Implementation, and Reporting User Guide (pdf file)
      cdsic.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/User%20Guide_SMD%20Planning_%20Implementation_%20Reporting_508.pdf
      January 01, 2023 - patient (e.g., patient-generated health data [PGHD], social determinants of health [SDOH] data, as well … before implementation begins for planning purposes, during implementation to ensure key steps are being … description of what implementation and patient-centered activities to consider for each task, as well … To understand the extent to which PC CDS is being used, implementers can consider: Scaling, Measurement … quintuple aim,” which focuses on improved patient experience, better outcomes, lower costs, clinician well-being

8593. Chartbook #17: Chartbook #17: Dental Use, Expenses, Dental Coverage, and Changes,1996 and 2004
      meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/cb17/cb17.shtml
      January 01, 2004 - or black (i.e., American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) as well … white or black (i.e., American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) as well … black (i.e., American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) as well … black (i.e., American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) as well … Other includes non-Hispanics who reported being of a single race other than white or black (i.e

8594. Effectiveness of Treatments for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/diabetic-neuropathy_research-protocol.pdf
      May 09, 2016 - for foot injury, delayed treatment (since injuries are not noticed by the patient immediately) as well … interventions to prevent specific complications, such as foot care for prevention of foot ulcers, as well … This review is currently being updated. … antidepressants and anticonvulsants, tramadol, and capsaicin recommended as probably effective, as well … , new trials have been conducted on the drugs evaluated in this review and related medications, as well

8595. Lessons Learned From AHRQ’s State and Regional Demonstrations in Health Information Technology (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/SRD_LessonsLearned_0.pdf
      October 01, 2010 - As of December 2008, data from 14 hospitals (inpatient, outpatient, and EDs) as well as 14 primary care … and value of investing in the HIE effort; these have been reported as barriers to HIE elsewhere as well … in the HIO at different levels, will inform the short- and long- term business plan for the HIO as well … Furthermore, point-of-care devices are increasingly being used in clinical settings where routine tests … HIE software products, however, have recently become more widely available and have the advantage of being

8596. Infantile-Hemangioma Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/infantile-hemangioma_executive.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - Specific disease characteristics, such as lesion size, location, rate of growth, and persistence as well … For example, small, superficial lesions may respond well to topical agents such as timolol, while deep … While well-recognized clinical signs such as ulceration, airway obstruction, or vision-threatening … Newer lasers and adjunctive features such as dynamic cooling have resulted in older lasers being out … moderate benefits with steroid treatment and greater improvements with beta-blockers, with propranolol being

8597. Health-Careassociated-Infections Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/health-careassociated-infections_executive.pdf
      November 01, 2012 - reports and technology assessments will inform individual health plans, providers, and purchasers as well … strategies and health outcomes: decreased infection rates, decreased complications and mortality, as well … This trend continued while the systematic review was being prepared. … effectiveness of quality improvement strategies may vary with the context and with the clinical issue being … The factors that can confound the results of such quasi-experimental studies are well known.

8598. Evidence Summary: Food Insecurity: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/food-insecurity-screening
      March 11, 2025 - 0.59 and specificity of 0.87 (95% CIs not reported) but was also the only instance of the screener being … needs demonstrates one potential challenge in implementation, but there are other considerations as well … Improving patient well-being in the United States through care coordination interventions informed by … Whole child well-child visits:implementing ACEs and SDOH screenings in primary care. … 0.59 and specificity of 0.87 (95% CIs not reported) but was also the only instance of the screener being

8599. Archived: Evidence Summary: Supplemental Screening in Women With Dense Breasts: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-supplemental-screening-in-women-with-dense-/breast-cancer-screening-january-2016
      January 11, 2016 - Breast density findings can change because of multiple factors related to the woman being examined … may result in different mandated communications in states with breast density notification, as well … KQ 4: What are the harms associated with being identified as having dense breasts, including psychological … In addition, it examines the accuracy of breast density determinations by radiologists, as well as the … harms associated with being identified as having dense breasts.

8600. Dietary Total Fat Intake and Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Intake and Child Growth and Development Outcomes: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/child-growth-development-outcomes-protocol-amended.pdf
      November 18, 2024 - Group allows the two governments to more efficiently coordinate discussions and use resources, as well … metabolism Note: given the distinction between chronological age versus pubertal stage, as well … be taken by mouth as a pill, capsule, table, or liquid, and that is labeled on the front panel as being … Studies will be rated as being “low,” “moderate,” or “high” risk of bias as described below in Table … describes the level of certainty of the effect estimate for a particular outcome with a precise estimate being