Winners Chosen in Challenge Competition To Advance AHRQ’s CDS Connect

AHRQ Stats: Cost of Treatment for Dental Conditions Among Seniors

In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the average emergency department cost of treating traumatic dental conditions for patients aged 65 and older was $916, 3.6 times as high as the $250 average cost of treating nontraumatic conditions. (Source: AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #305, Treat-and-Release Emergency Department Utilization and Costs for Traumatic and Nontraumatic Dental Conditions, 2019 and 2020.)

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• Winners Chosen in Challenge Competition To Advance AHRQ’s CDS Connect.
• Register Now for May 21 Webinar on National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety.
• More AHRQ Webinars.
• Highlights From AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network.
• New Research and Evidence From AHRQ.

Winners Chosen in Challenge Competition To Advance AHRQ’s CDS Connect

Four winners have been awarded $25,000 each for ideas on how to advance the functionality, value and accessibility of AHRQ’s CDS Connect platform. CDS Connect is a freely available web-based resource that enables the clinical decision support (CDS) community to identify evidence-based care, translate and codify information into an interoperable health information technology standard and promote a collaborative model of CDS development. AHRQ’s September 2023 challenge competition solicited ideas on strengthening the ways in which industry, government and nonprofit entities can collaborate to share innovative CDS across health systems. Access more information about the challenge winners:

• Winner of Best Overall Design: Knowledge Systems Laboratory.
• Winner of Most Innovative: SKYCAPP.
• Winner of Best Technical Functionality: Health Co-Lab.
• Winner of Best Value Proposition: HealthPartners Institute.

Register Now for May 21 Webinar on National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety

Registration is open for a webinar on May 21 from noon to 1 p.m. ET to highlight recent activities of the National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety. The National Action Alliance, established by AHRQ on behalf of HHS, is a public-private collaboration that strives to improve safety across all healthcare settings. The upcoming webinar topic is Understanding and Operationalizing the National Action Alliance Aim #1: Advance Organizational Safety Strategies Using National Action Plan Foundations. Among other topics, webinar speakers will discuss the purpose, use and impact of performing safety self-assessments to improve patient and workforce safety. Presenters will include:

• Patricia McGaffigan, R.N., M.S., vice president, Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• Kelly Randall, Ph.D., vice president of patient safety and regulatory, Ascension.
• Melinda Sawyer, Dr.PH, M.S.N., R.N., vice president, chief quality and patient safety officer, United Health Group.

Access more information from previous National Action Alliance webinars and tools and resources to advance patient and workforce safety.

More AHRQ Webinars

• May 8, 1 to 2 p.m. ET: Listening to the Voice of the Patient: Using Multiple Feedback Methods To Complement CAHPS Survey Data will highlight how patient-experience professionals use multiple patient feedback methods to complement AHRQ’s Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) data.
• May 23, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. ET: Using AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® Hospital Survey and Workplace Safety Item Set will highlight how the Indiana Hospital Association used AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Hospital Surveyand Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set to assess patient safety culture and workplace safety.

Highlights From AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network

AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network (PSNet) highlights journal articles, books and tools related to patient safety. Articles featured this week include:

• Judgment errors in surgical care.
• Co-worker unprofessional behaviour and patient safety risks: an analysis of co-worker reports across eight Australian hospitals.
• Supporting error management and safety climate in ambulatory care practices: the CIRSforte study.

Review additional new publications in PSNet’s current issue, including recent cases and commentaries and AHRQ’s WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web).

New Research and Evidence From AHRQ

• Rapid Evidence Product: Fatigue and Sleepiness of Clinicians Due to Hours of Service.
• Systematic Review (draft open for comment): Evaluation of Dietary Protein and Amino Acid Requirements.
• Systematic Review (draft open for comment): The Effect of Protein Intake on Health.

AHRQ in the Professional Literature

Protocol for a parallel cluster randomized trial of a participatory tailored approach to reduce overuse of antibiotics at hospital discharge: the ROAD home trial. Szymczak JE, Petty LA, Gandhi TN, et al. Implement Sci 2024 Mar 4;19(1):23. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Mental health impairment and outpatient mental health care of US children and adolescents. Olfson M, McClellan C, Zuvekas SH, et al. JAMA Psychiatry 2024 Mar 13. [Epub ahead of print.] Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Frontline providers' and patients' perspectives on improving diagnostic safety in the emergency department: a qualitative study. Mangus CW, James TG, Parker SJ, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 2024 Mar 12. [Epub ahead of print.] Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Experiences of patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis-related complex care needs and their caregivers. Pozzar RA, Wall JA, Tavormina A, et al. Gynecol Oncol 2024 Feb;181:68-75. Epub 2023 Dec 22. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Parent perspectives on documentation and sharing of health-related social needs data. Bouchelle Z, Menko SG, Yazdani M, et al. Hosp Pediatr 2024 Apr;14(4):308-16. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Efficacy and impact of a multimodal intervention on CT pulmonary angiography ordering behavior in the emergency department. Gyftopoulos S, Simon E, Swartz JL, et al. J Am Coll Radiol 2024 Feb;21(2):309-18. Epub 2023 May 27. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Inability to access needed medical care among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Medicaid enrollees. Nguyen KH, Oronce CIA, Adia AC, et al. J Ambul Care Manage 2024 Apr-Jun;47(2):96-103. Epub 2024 Jan 19. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Health-related social needs information in the emergency department: clinician and patient perspectives on availability and use. Mazurenko O, Hirsh AT, Harle CA, et al. BMC Emerg Med 2024 Mar 18;24(1):45. Access the abstract on PubMed®.