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8941. 75Ftpgw4Rz-3Tdmqpstvdg (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/75ftPGW4rZ-3tdMQPstvDg
      August 01, 2012 - , well-conducted studies in representative primary care populations. … week of moderate-intensity or 75 minutes per week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, as well … USPSTF’s recommen- dation on vitamin D and calcium supplementation to pre- vent cancer and fractures is being … management are evaluations of balance and mobility, vi- sion, and orthostatic or postural hypotension, as well … for environ- mental hazards, and regular medical care to ensure opti- mized hearing and vision, as well

8942. Final Progress Report: Risk-Informed Intervention to Improve Ambulatory Drug Monitoring and Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/field-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - guidelines for laboratory monitoring and examination of baseline factors associated with ordering as well … patient characteristics, including age, gender, number of study prescriptions, and visit frequency, as well … , with an indicator variable for the period of time when the EMR upgrade blocked the reminders from being … laboratory monitoring of high-risk medications is the result of prescribers not ordering tests as well … Interventions to improve laboratory monitoring should target patients as well as physicians.

8943. Recommendation: Skin Cancer Prevention: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/skin-cancer-counseling
      March 20, 2018 - Three studies provided the intervention in conjunction with well-child visits. … benefit from counseling for skin protective behaviors and from current levels of skin examinations being … frequency of behavioral counseling for skin self-examination in the asymptomatic population is not well … interventions included an interactive web program and tailored text messages on sun protection, as well … A randomized intervention study of sun protection promotion in well-child care.

8944. Costs of Emergency Department Visits in the United States, 2017 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb268-ED-Costs-2017.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - ED visits include patients treated and released from the ED, as well as those admitted to the same hospital … age group, 2017 Figure 1 presents aggregate ED visit costs by patient sex and age group in 2017 as well … other outpatient costs associated with other hospital-based outpatient clinics and departments as well … Veterans Administration, Indian Health Services, and Department of Justice [prison] hospitals) as well … Teaching hospital is defined as having a residency program approved by the American Medical Association, being

8945. Hepatitis-C-Screening Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/hepatitis-c-screening_executive.pdf
      November 01, 2012 - Well- established predictors of advanced fibrosis in those with chronic HCV infection include older … Clinical outcomes were mortality, morbidity, quality of life, and HCV transmission, as well as harms … Some evidence published since the 2004 review suggests that patients who become aware of being HCV positive … Such studies are more susceptible to bias and confounding than well-conducted randomized trials. … therefore focused on results from studies that performed adjustment and were otherwise assessed as being

8946. Archived: High Blood Cholesterol and Other Lipid Abnormalities: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/high-cholesterol-other-lipid-abnormalities-screening-1996
      January 01, 1996 - is a multifactorial process, however, there is no definition of high cholesterol that discriminates well … These benefits are now well established for persons with preexisting atherosclerotic vascular disease … harm may influence decisions about universal screening. 161 Anecdotal reports have reported decreased well-being … The benefit of drug treatment for low HDL-C and normal cholesterol has not been determined but is being … Most "high-risk" young persons (excluding young men with FH) have a near-term risk of CHD well below

8947. Virginia Final Report
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/AHRQFINALREPORTVHI.jsp
      July 01, 2016 - Will you be providing the LOINC map as well? … The page also shows files previously uploaded by the hospital, as well as files uploaded by VHI. … This step often revealed when more records than necessary were being included in the POA data. … VHI plans on creating a series of reports using the POA screens developed by MPA, Inc. as well as reports … themselves were quite large, per MPA, Inc. the final sample size was limited for several conditions being

8948. Continuity of Insurance: Coverage Presumed Ineligible (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/duration/chipra-155-fullreport.pdf
      September 01, 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

8949. Final Progress Report: Racial and Ethnic Variations in Medical Interactions (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/ashton-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - doctor-patient communication are a significant source of health disparities, with minority populations being … structured interviews using some combination of interaction analysis and perceptual measures, as well … : Medical Decision-Making Survey: The computerized decision aid for OA surgical preferences worked well … Scope: Racial/ethnic disparities in lung cancer treatment are well documented but poorly explained … Sixty-six percent of participants reported being retired or not working, and 62% percent of participants

8950. Pediatric Lower Respiratory Infection Readmission Measure (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-131-fullreport.pdf
      April 05, 2017 - The hospital is in a State not being analyzed. … For example, hospitals that provide patient-focused, individualized pre-discharge education as well … Validity Validity of the measure is the extent to which the measure meaningfully represents the concept being … fully valid only if the rates were standardized using a combined dataset of claims from all hospitals being … Lengths of stay could increase if hospitals delay discharging patients to reduce the likelihood of their being

8951. Archived: Evidence Summary (Pregnant and Postpartum Women): Screening for Depression in Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-primary-care-screening-for-and-treatment-of/depression-in-adults-screening
      January 26, 2016 - the United States. 26 Both of the individually randomized trials excluded women who were currently being … level of a midwife or medical practice all had very broad inclusion criteria and did not exclude women being … Although we assessed the pertinent sections of these reviews' methods as being of good quality, it is … Postpartum depression screening at well-child visits: validity of a 2-question screen and the PHQ-9. … Interventions may result in changes in health outcomes as well (KQ4).

8952. Screening for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/36geybKjEXsHDoPkRR5KVZ
      June 01, 2008 - harms of screen- ing, the USPSTF updated its 2003 evidence review, adding evi- dence from new trials as well … For the current recom- mendation, the USPSTF reviewed the evidence from new trials as well as updates … from type 2 diabetes mellitus, especially CVD, because the goal of screening—improvement of health and well-being—is … microvascular complica- tions: Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are substan- tially elevated well … , well-conducted studies in representative primary care populations.

8953. The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide: Ways to Approach the Quality Improvement Process (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/4-approach-qi-process/cahps-section-4-ways-to-approach-qi-process.pdf
      May 17, 2017 - for patient experience, provides an overview of the process of quality improvement, discusses a few well … For that reason, the team needs to define both ultimate goals as well as incremental objectives that …  Through the identification of benchmark practices in health care as well as other industries, … Communicate with staff about why the measures are being collected and how these data will help improve … Patient-centered improvement strategies have to consider the needs of patients and their families as well

8954. March 2nd Mitigating Racial Bias in Healthcare Algorithms Public Meeting (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/impact-healthcare-algorithms-racial-ethnic-disparities-March-2.pdf
      May 15, 2023 - Today's webinar is being recorded for note taking purposes. … Underserved rural residents • Sexual and gender minorities • Social disadvantage that results in part from being … subject to discrimination or racism, and being underserved in health care • A health outcome that … algorithm is going wrong • One clue: where it is going right • Algorithm predicts total health costs well … eligibility Takeaway: Both studies found that USPSTF-2013 resulted in higher proportions of Black patients being

8955. The Impact of Standardized Order Sets on Quality and Financial Outcomes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Ballard_12.pdf
      February 02, 2008 - increasing technologic support (e.g., order set deployment via the intranet physician portal) is being … approach involved the creation of propensity scores to determine the conditional probability of a patient being … compliance also remained significant following adjustment, with patients for whom the order set was used being … showed a significant reduction in in-hospital mortality, expected payment, and contribution margin, as well … increase in core measures compliance was also significant, with patients for whom the order set was used being

8956. Crosscutting Hi Impact (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/crosscutting_hi_impact.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - This report is being generated twice a year. … (A total of 14 topics in this priority area were being tracked in the system as of November 2011.) … Raisin System™ (Proteus Biomedical, Inc., Redwood City, CA), a form of smart-pill technology, is being … Project ECHO is currently being investigated for its viability to improve management of patients with … medical home on individuals’ health…would also affect their quality of life, earning potential, and the well-being

8957. Enabling Shared Decision Making to Reduce Harm from Drug Interactions: An End-to-End Demonstration - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/u18hs027099-malone-final-report-2022.pdf
      January 01, 2022 - complete a System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire regarding the application (Likert scaled) with 1 being … “strongly disagree” and 5 being “strongly agree”. … The positive response for social influence for the control participants is likely due to the tools being … In general, DDInteract appeared to be well received by the clinicians. … I think it was well done…..

8958. Prehospital EMS Blood Transfusion and Fluid Interventions for Hemorrhagic Shock (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ems-blood-transfusion-protocol-amendment.pdf
      February 04, 2025 - for alternatives to blood replacement that address the challenges associated with crystalloids as well … of Defense Joint Trauma System,10 the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies,11 as well … The reason for the gap is identified as the one (or more) that most precludes conclusions from being … The research gaps will be characterized using the PICOTS framework, with timing being considered separately … If the evidence permits a conclusion, all else being equal, a set of studies at low risk of bias yields

8959. Noninvasive Diagnostic Techniques for the Detection of Skin Cancers (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/skin-lesions-evaluation_technical-brief.pdf
      December 01, 2014 - also extracted data on the citation (first author name, journal, and year of publication), condition being … The most commonly reported outcome was lesion characterization (8 studies) with test accuracy being … Additionally, “OCT is being integrated in multimodal imaging devices that would potentially be able … technology used to analyze superficial cells harvested from pigmented skin lesions (PSLs) suspected of being … A dermoscopy survey to assess who is using it and why it is or is not being used.

8960. 2016 Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Part I (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/2016/2016_hospitalsops_report_pt1.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - Hospital units do not coordinate well with each other. (F2R) 49% 2. … Hospital units work well together to provide the best care for patients. … When an event is reported, it feels like the person is being written up, not the problem. … When an event is reported, it feels like the person is being written up, not the problem. 48% 8.79% … When an event is reported, it feels like the person is being written up, not the problem. 50% 49%