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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality"”.
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STANDARDIZATION OF SHIFT REPORT BY IMPLEMENTING A NURSING REPORT SHEET AND ADDRESSING PATIENT VALUES TO MEET PATIENT NEEDS
… of care from one clinician to another. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (2013) reported that approximately 70% of patient adverse events are attributed to communication failures between healthcare providers. Nurses remain inconsistent with information sharing during …
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VAP Prevention in the CTICU
<p>The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2015) has cited ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) as the most common infection in the ICU. In 2014, four episodes of VAP were identified in the 25-bed adult cardio-thoracic ICU (CTICU), a dynamic clinical environment within an academic medical …
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Interprofessional Team Training in the Pediatric Life Support Program: Effects on Teamwork and Quality of Resuscitations
<p>Patients receive higher quality and safer care when it is provided not just by experts, but also by expert teams. Unfortunately, deficiencies in teamwork and communication continue to be the most frequent contributor to adverse patient events. The Institute of Medicine, The Joint Commission, and …
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IMPROVING QUALITY AND EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PROVIDERS AND NURSING - A PSYCHIATRIC SBAR TOOL (PSYCH)
<p>IMPROVING QUALITY AND EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN</p> <p>PROVIDERS AND NURSING - A PSYCHIATRIC SBAR TOOL (PSYCH)</p> <p>Karen Richards</p> <p>University of San Francisco</p> <p>Abstract</p> <p>Effective communication is the cornerstone of providing safety and quality healthcare. However, …
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Validating Targeted Behavioral Markers for Teamwork Skill and Performance Outcomes in Simulation
The National Academy of Medicine, formerly the Institute of Medicine, asserts healthcare providers must demonstrate competency in teamwork (IOM, 2001). TeamSTEPPs® is a comprehensive instructional framework developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Department of Defense to …
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Improved Communication for Safer Patient Care: The Implementation of SBAR
<p>This Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) quality improvement project aims to improve the consistency of intradepartmental communication between Urgent Care Center (UCC) staff, through standardized SBAR patient hand-offs. The aim is to improve; (1) the consistency and clarity of patient hand-offs, (2) …
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Examining the Relationship Between Patient Safety Culture and Patient Experience in Ambulatory Surgery Center Settings
… the relationship between patient safety culture and patient experience using a collective, instrumental case study conducted within 40 ambulatory surgery centers that are part of a large healthcare organization in the United States. The study included analysis of two existing data sets, namely …
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An Architectural Framework for Evidence-Based Practice Diffusion, Dissemination, and Institutionalization
<p>Technology, innovation, and a demand for the safest, value-added healthcare have led to the proliferation of research studies. Unfortunately the evidence from most of those studies has yet to be applied to evidence-based practice (EBP) projects. Much of this research and many of EBP projects …
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Reducing Mortality from Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: A Macro System Approach
<p>Healthcare organizations must be able to provide quality patient care from arrival to disposition that is both expedient and safe. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ranks septicemia as the number one most expensive condition treated in U.S. hospitals, resulting in aggregate costs of …
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The Relationship Between Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture, Nurse Advocacy, and Nurse Sensitive Patient Outcomes
<p>The purpose of the study was to understand relationships between and among patient safety culture, nurse reported attitude toward patient advocacy and key patient outcomes. Nurses play an integral role in patient safety, providing care through constant interaction with the patient and clinical …
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Development of Interprofessional Simulation Scenarios Within the Re-Established Capital Area Simulation Collaborative
<p>Among interprofessional healthcare providers “an estimated 80% of serious medical errors involve miscommunication” (Joint Commission, 2012). The National Academies of Medicine, formerly known as the Institute of Medicine (IOM), World Health Organization (WHO), and Agency for Healthcare Research …
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Triage Training: Improving Access to Care
… (LWBS) rates have been described as “the gold standard of metrics” for high acuity units. In this project, the aim is to increase patient access to care by decreasing both wait times for patients and the LWBS rate for the unit, which approaches 6%. As part of a military hospital, the unit …
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Improving patient outcomes through use of the teach-back method in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit
<p>The setting for this Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) project was the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) at a level I trauma center in the Bay Area. The goal was to improve the discharge education performed by the PACU nurses to improve patient safety and decrease the chance of complications or …
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Analysis of Hospital-Based Emergency Department Visits for Dental Care Services in the United States in 2008
… presenting nationally representative estimates and risk factors of hospital-based emergency department visits primarily attributed to dental complaints. The objective of this study is to provide estimates hospital- based emergency department visits of among working adults.</p> <p>The Nationwide …
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Market Heterogeneity and Drug Innovation
… causal effect of market size (i.e., product demand) on innovation output - larger value markets offer larger profit potential which leads to higher rates of new product entry. Empirical literature has supported the IIH but the estimated effects of market size on pharmaceutical innovation are …
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Racial Disparities in Self Reported Health and Health Care Utilization. Does Primary Care Matter?
… the growing health care disparities among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The literature suggests that Black adults share a disproportionate burden in death, disability, and disease. In 2002, the Institute of Medicine report, Unequal Treatment, showed that racial-ethnic disparities …
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Actor Networks in Health Care: Translating Values into Measures of Hospital Performance
… organizing, spiraling costs, diminishing service quality and new actors, is changing, almost on a daily basis. Reports issued by the Institute of Medicine raise quality issues such as avoidable errors and underuse/overuse of services; other studies document regional variation in care. Improvement …
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Are Appropriators Actually Authorizers in Sheep's Clothing? A Case Study of the Policymaking Role of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
… the authorization-appropriation process is the formal model that establishes the separation between legislative and funding bills. Additionally, it determines the jurisdiction of the congressional committees that oversee those bills. However, a number of scholars have concluded that the …
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Does process quality of inpatient care matter in potentially preventable readmission rates?
… To examine the association between process quality of inpatient care and risk-adjusted, thirty-day potentially preventable hospital readmission (PPR) rates. Data Sources/Study Setting: This was an observational cross-sectional study of nonfederal acute-care hospitals located in two states …
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Contracting Out in a Complex Network: An Effectiveness Analysis of EPC Program I
… out its work continues to proliferate and studies about this phenomenon have increased during the past two decades, still little is known about how effective government sponsored networks are at managing broad and complex networks of primarily non-governmental entities. This …
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