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IJERPH, Vol. 20, Pages 2329: Patient Safety Culture in a Tertiary Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study
This study was carried out in a tertiary hospital to analyze PS culture among the professionals and to determine the strengths and weaknesses that influence this perception. A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out. The AHRQ Questionnaire on the Safety of Patients in Hospitals (SOPS) was used. A high perception of PS was found among the participants. In the strengths found, efficient teamwork, mutual help between colleagues and the support of the manager and head of the unit stood out. Among the weaknesses, floating professional templates, a perception of pressure and accelerated pace of work, and loss of releva...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - January 28, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Mar ía Teresa Segura-García Mar ía Ángeles Castro Vida Manuel Garc ía-Martin Reyes Álvarez-Ossorio-García de Soria Alda Elena Cort és-Rodríguez Mar ía Mar López-Rodríguez Tags: Article Source Type: research

Misdiagnosis in the Emergency Department
This Viewpoint offers 3 insights in response to the AHRQ report on diagnostic errors made in US emergency departments: focus on the delivery systems instead of individuals, establish ways to set definitions and assess error rates, and design safe delivery systems to prevent errors. (Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association)
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - January 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

Primary Care's Challenges and Responses in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights From AHRQ's Learning Community
Ann Fam Med. 2023 Jan-Feb;21(1):76-82. doi: 10.1370/afm.2904.ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic dramatically disrupted health care systems and delivery in the United States. Despite emotional, psychological, logistical, and financial stress, primary care clinicians responded to the challenges that COVID-19 presented and continued to provide essential health services to their communities. As the lead federal agency for primary care research, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) identified a need to engage and support primary care in responding to COVID-19. AHRQ initiated a learning community from December 2020-N...
Source: Annals of Family Medicine - January 23, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jenna T Sirkin Elizabeth Flanagan Sebastian T Tong Megan Coffman Robert J McNellis Tracy McPherson Arlene S Bierman Source Type: research

Promoting health equity with HBCUs: Breaking away from structural racism
Despite efforts to improve the nation's health, not all individuals have access to high-quality health care and major disparities in health outcomes persist. Health care disparities are defined as “racial or ethnic differences in the quality of health care that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of intervention” (Smedley et al, 2003, pp. 3–4). In 2021, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality highlighted that Black populatio ns experienced the worst quality of care for 43% of quality measures when compared with White groups, and “disparities in all doma...
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 21, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Roberta Waite, Jessica Varghese, Yolanda VanRiel, Theresa Smith, Gil Singletary, Oren Shtayermman, Brian L. Ragsdale, Nina M. McCune, Catherine Holton, Patricia E. Ferguson, Gina S. Brown, Janice Brewington, Katie Boston-Leary, Kenya Beard Source Type: research

Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Chinese version of the revised surveys on patient safety culture ™ (SOPS®) hospital survey 2.0
Surveys on Patient Safety Culture ™ (SOPS®) Hospital Survey (HSOPS 1.0), developed by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2004, has been widely adopted in the United States and internationall... (Source: BMC Nursing)
Source: BMC Nursing - December 26, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Yinghui Wu, Wenzhe Hua, Daqiao Zhu, Ryo Onishi, Yanna Yang and Tomonori Hasegawa Tags: Research Source Type: research

Anesthesiologist Staffing Ratio and Surgical Outcome —Reply
In Reply We thank the readers for their interest and comments. Some common themes emerged across the Letters. First, we wish to reiterate that the study ’s data and discussion do not assert unsafe or safe staffing ratio thresholds. There are financial and access to care implications to various staffing ratio models, which must be incorporated along with the current data when establishing anesthesiologist staffing ratios in a particular facility. N ext, several comments questioned the choice of primary composite outcome and whether alternative outcome definitions may have resulted in different (null) results. Consistent w...
Source: JAMA Surgery - December 21, 2022 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research

Summary of the 2020 AHRQ Research Meeting on'Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement Using Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS ® ) Surveys '
This article summarizes the meeting. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - December 7, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Denise D. Quigley; Nabeel Qureshi; Lise Rybowski; Dale Shaller; Susan Edgman-Levitan; Paul Cleary; Caren Ginsberg; Ron D. Hays Source Type: research

A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study of Nurses Immediately Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Implications for Action
The Surgeon General (2022) recently issued a public advisory declaring healthcare clinician burnout to be an urgent public health issue in need of immediate action. The American Hospital Association (AHA) in a March 1, 2022, letter to Congress proclaimed workforce challenges a national emergency that demanded immediate attention (AHA, 2022). There is little doubt that many hospitals failed to perform well during the Covid-19 emergency (Joint Commission, 2021; Fleisher et al., 2022). Bloodstream infections, which had declined 31% in the 5-years preceding the pandemic increased 28% in the pandemic's first months (Patel, et a...
Source: Nursing Outlook - December 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Linda H. Aiken, Douglas M. Sloane, Matthew D. McHugh, Colleen A. Pogue, Karen B. Lasater Source Type: research

Practicing health equity in involuntary discharges to overcome disparities in dialysis and kidney patient care
Purpose of review Potential causes and consequences of involuntary discharge (IVD) of patients from dialysis facilities are widely unknown. So, also are the extent of racial disparities in IVDs and their impact on health equity. Recent findings Under the current End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) program Conditions for Coverage (CFC), there are limited justifications for IVDs. The ESRD Networks oversee dialysis quality and safety including IVDs in US dialysis facilities, with support from the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) and other stakeholders. Whereas black Americans constitute a third of US...
Source: Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension - December 1, 2022 Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: NOVEL THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES IN NEPHROLOGY AND HYPERTENSION: Edited by Ekamol Tantisattamo, Ramy M. Hanna and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Source Type: research

Editors' Choice December 2022
In the December issue of JCE we are pleased to include a landmark original article from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) Effective Health Care (EHC) program providing updated guidance on the inclusion of non-randomised studies (NRS) in systematic reviews of interventions [1]. This is accompanied by commentaries on behalf of the Campbell Collaboration Study Design and Bias Assessment Working Group, Cochrane Non-randomised Studies Methods Group, GRADE Working Group and the JBI [2 –5]. (Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology)
Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - December 1, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: David Tovey, Peter Tugwell Tags: Editors' Choice Source Type: research

New Guidance for Reducing Health Care Organizations ’ Carbon Emissions
Through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a primer to help health care organizations cut their carbon footprints. Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions for Healthcare Organizations to Mitigate Climate Change is now available online. (Source: JAMA)
Source: JAMA - November 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the hyperuricemia risk from certain metals
AbstractThe relationship between exposure to certain metals and the risk of hyperuricemia (HUA) has biological plausibility, yet prior studies have presented inconsistent findings. We aim to clarify the relationship between exposure to certain metals and HUA using a systematic review and meta-analysis approach. We searched the Web of Science, Embase, MEDLINE, Pubmed, Corchrane and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases from inception through December, 2021 in order to identify studies that assessed the relationships between metals and the risk of HUA. Data were pooled by random-effects models and expressed as po...
Source: Clinical Rheumatology - November 11, 2022 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research

Socioeconomic predictors of cost and length of stay for erythroderma: a cross-sectional analysis of the national inpatient sample
AbstractErythroderma is an uncommon but serious dermatologic disorder that often requires hospitalization for diagnosis and treatment. However, little is known about predictors influencing cost and patient outcomes. The present study sought to characterize the sociodemographic factors that predict patient outcomes and hospital cost. Data were obtained from the 2016 –2018 National Inpatient Sample (NIS) provided by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for patients of any age with a primary or secondary diagnosis of exfoliative dermatitis. Regression analyses were ...
Source: Archives of Dermatological Research - November 11, 2022 Category: Dermatology Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 14691: The Role of Gender in the Association between Mental Health and Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations: A Single-Center Retrospective Observational Study
useppe Di Martino Psychiatric disorders and substance abuse are barriers that limit access to timely treatment and can lead to Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations (PPH). The aim of this study is to identify the role played by gender in the association between mental health and PPH. Hospital discharge records (HDRs) from the Local Health Authority of Pescara (Italy) from 2015 to 2021 were examined and PPH were measured according to Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In total, 119,730 HDRs were eligible for the study and 21,217 patients fell into the PQI ...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - November 9, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fabrizio Cedrone Alessandro Catalini Lorenzo Stacchini Nausicaa Berselli Marta Caminiti Clara Mazza Claudia Cosma Giuseppa Minutolo Giuseppe Di Martino Tags: Article Source Type: research

"Updated guidance from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Effective Healthcare Program on including nonrandomized studies of interventions in systematic reviews: a work in progress"
(Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology)
Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - November 9, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Barnaby C. Reeves, Beverley J. Shea, George A. Wells, Hugh S. Waddington Tags: Commentary Source Type: research