Review the following list of meetings in which falls risk and prevention is potentially discussed by the interdisciplinary team. For every meeting that occurs at your facility, indicate the type of ...

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A minimum of 5 supervised successful procedures in both the chest and femoral sites is required (10 total). If a physician successfully performs 5 supervised lines in one site, he or she is ...

Take part in a national study to evaluate the impact of resources intended to help prevent diagnostic safety events. Diagnostic safety events are common and pervasive across all healthcare settings, ...

Because sponsors have to collect data and address various other tasks before reporting the results, it is typical for project teams to want to focus first on developing questionnaires and implementing ...

Managing chronic illness and changing behavior are challenging and take time for both providers and patients. Yet, often it is chronically ill patients who are called on to manage the broad array of ...

This resource, Guidelines and Measures, was set up by AHRQ to provide users a place to find information about its legacy guidelines and measures clearinghouses, National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) ...

Precautions, warnings, contraindications and side effects (see FDA package insert for complete list) Pregnancy-Pregnant smokers should be encouraged to quit without medication. Nicotine gum has not ...

After the Institute of Medicine released its sentinel report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in conjunction with its Federal ...

In 2016, AHRQ awarded a contract to develop methods and estimate the incremental inpatient financial costs and additional inpatient mortality associated with 10 selected hospital-acquired conditions ...

Sponsored by the Public Health Service, the 2008 Update to the Clinical Practice Guideline presents evidenced-based guidelines for clinicians to use when treating their patients who use tobacco. The ...