Track A: Transforming Health Care Delivery

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Understanding and Improving the Delivery of Care in the Emergency Department (Session 33)

Weekend & Night Outcomes in a Mature State Trauma System (PowerPoint® File, 757 KB; Web Version)
Brendan Carr, University of Pennsylvania

Emergency Care and Emergency Care Research (PowerPoint® File, 485 KB; Web Version)
Jesse Pines, George Washington University

The Development of Emergency Department Patient Quality/Safety Indicators (PowerPoint® File, 3 MB; Web Version)
Patrick S. Romano, University of California, Davis

Personal Health Information Management (Session 61)

Personal Health Information Management and Design of Consumer Health IT (PowerPoint® File, 715 KB; Web Version)
Jonathan White, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Something Borrowed, Something New: Developing an Agenda for Patient-Centered Mental Health (Session 35)

Reducing Mental Health Disparities (PowerPoint® File, 442 KB; Web Version)
King Davis, The University of Texas at Austin

Issues Exploration Forum (IEF): Serious Mental Illness (PowerPoint® File, 650 KB; Web Version)
Daniel Jonas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Patient Centered-Care: Improving Outcomes that Matter to Patients in the Real World (PowerPoint® File, 675 KB; Web Version)
Steven Sharfstein, Sheppard Pratt Health System

Something Borrowed, Something New Developing an Agenda for Patient-Centered Mental Health Care (  Microsoft PowerPoint version - 2.49 MB ; Web Version)
Sonia Tyutyulkova

Evaluating Emerging Technologies: Is the Future Now? (Session 50)

Evaluating Emerging Technologies: Is the Future Now? (PowerPoint® File, 1.4 MB; Web Version)
Elise Berliner, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Evidence Limited to Inform Decisions about Maternal-Fetal Surgery (PowerPoint® File, 510 KB; Web Version)
Katherine Hartmann, Vanderbilt University

Evaluating Emerging Technologies: Is the Future Now? MOMS Management of Myelomeningocele Study (PowerPoint® File, 4.3 MB; Web Version)
Susan Tolivaisa, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH

Technical Brief on Particle Beam Radiotherapies for the Treatment of Cancer (PowerPoint® File, 1.8 MB; Web Version)
Tom Trikalinos, Tufts Medical Center

Building a Learning Network To Inform EHR Adoption and Meaningful Use: AHRQ's Role in Support of the Health IT Regional Extension Centers (Session 65)

HITRC (PowerPoint® File, 2 MB; Web Version)
Ned Ellington, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS

Quality Improvement Initiatives: National Implementation of CUSP and TeamSTEPPS (Session 18)

Building National Health Care Quality Improvement Campaigns to Succeed: Lessons from the CUSP: CLABSI Project (PowerPoint® File, 715 KB; Web Version)
Stephen Hines, Health Research and Educational Trust

The Power of Teams Across America: Lessons Learned from The National Implementation of TeamSTEPPS Project (PowerPoint® File, 900 KB; Web Version)
Deborah Milne, American Institutes for Research

Redesigning Care Delivery: Demonstrations and Research on Health System Change (Session 49)

Accelerating Utilization of CE Findings in Medicaid Mental Health: The Medicaid Mental Health Network for Evidence Based Care (PowerPoint® File, 120 KB; Web Version)
Stephen Crystal, Rutgers University

ARRA Delivery System Initiative: Background And Funded Applications (PowerPoint® File, 390 KB;  Web Version)
Michael Harrison, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Bundled Episode Payment and Gainsharing Demonstration Project (PowerPoint® File, 900 KB; Web Version)
Wesley Kary, Integrated Healthcare Association

Comparative Effectiveness of Virginia Coordinated Care versus the Traditional Safety Net Delivery System (PowerPoint® File, 1.2 MB; Web Version)
Wally R. Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University

Assessing Evidence and Recommendations: Using GRADE Basics Versus the Full GRADE Framework (Session 37)

Grading Evidence and Recommendations: Starting with Grade Basics Vs. Utilizing the Full Framework (PowerPoint® File, 760 KB; Web Version)
Yngve Falck-Ytter, RTI International

Use of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Tools To Facilitate Evidence-Based Patient Care (Session 56)

The Cancer in the Family Clinical Decision Support Tool (PowerPoint® File, 3.8 MB; Web Version)
Linda Squiers, RTI International

Do Patient-Centered Medical Homes Lower Costs and Improve Quality? (Session 27)

Case Study Of A Primary Care Accountable Care Organization (PowerPoint® File, 1.5 MB; Web Version)
David West, University of Colorado, Denver

Transparency and Stakeholder Engagement in the Research Enterprise (Session 52)

Stakeholder Engagement and Transparency in The Effective Health Care Program (PowerPoint® File, 2.5 MB; Web Version)
Supriya Janakiraman, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Engaging Stakeholders in EPC Work (PowerPoint® File, 248 KB; Web Version)
Melissa McPheeters, Vanderbilt Evidence-Based Practice Center

The Role of Stakeholders in the Diabetes Multi-Center Research Consortium (DMCRC) (PowerPoint® File, 1.2 MB; Web Version)
Joe Selby, Kaiser Permanente

Improving Care Through the Use of AHRQ Health IT Tools (Session 58)

Improving Care Through AHRQ Health IT Tools (PowerPoint® File, 2.4 MB; Web Version)
Alexander Krist, Virginia Commonwealth University

Development and Use of Ambulatory Adverse Event Trigger Tools (PowerPoint® File, 190 KB; Web Version)
Vera Rosenthal, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Wisdom in Numbers: Using Stakeholder Feedback To Shape a Research Agenda for Integrating Mental Health and Primary Care (Session 31)

Improving Care Through AHRQ Health IT Tools (PowerPoint® File, 450 KB; Web Version)
Benjamin Miller, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Reducing Waste in Care Delivery (Session 43)

Implementing Lean: Preliminary Case Study Findings and Implications for Primary Care (PowerPoint® File, 440 KB; Web Version)
Kristin Carman, American Institutes for Research

Reducing Waste in Care Delivery (PowerPoint® File, 715 KB; Web Version)
Michael Harrison, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Implementing IT to Capture Functional Status in Rheumatology: Are there Efficiency and Quality Tradeoffs? (PowerPoint® File, 206 KB; Web Version)
Marilyn Moon, American Institutes for Research

Primary Care: Developing An Efficency Decision Guide (work in progress) (PowerPoint® File, 350 KB; Web Version)
David West, University of Colorado, Denver

Accounting for Clinical Heterogeneity in Comparative Effectiveness Research (Session 53)

Heterogeneity and Comparative Effectiveness: Implications for Studies, Reviews, and Policy (PowerPoint® File, 424 KB; Web Version)
David Atkins, Veterans Health Administration

Going from CER to Patient-Centered Care: Implications of Heterogeneity of Heterogeneity (PowerPoint® File, 422 KB; Web Version)
David Atkins, Veterans Health Administration

Accounting for Clinical Heterogeneity in Comparative Effectiveness Research How Can One Examine a Trial for Heterogeneity of Treatment Effect (HTE)? The Example of the BARI trial for CABG vs PTCA (PowerPoint® File, 410 KB; Web Version)
Carlos Weiss, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Health IT State of Evidence: Impact of Consumer Health Informatics Applications and Use of Health IT To Deliver Patient-Centered Care (Session 62)

The Impact of Consumer Health Informatics Applications (PowerPoint® File, 1.2 MB; Web Version)
Chris Gibbons, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute

Structuring Clinical Recommendations for Clinical Decision Support (Session 64)

Structuting Care Recommendations for Clinical Decision Support (PowerPoint® File, 3.6 MB; Web Version)
Jerry Osheroff, Thomson Reuters

The Value of Information: An Innovative Approach to Prioritizing Comparative Effectiveness Research (Session 36)

Value of Information: An Innovative Approach to Prioritizing Comparative Effectiveness Research (PowerPoint® File, 750 KB; Web Version)
Ava John-Baptiste, Women's College Research Institute

Using Value of Information to Prioritize Future Research: A Case Study (PowerPoint® File, 215 KB; Web Version)
Gillian Sanders, Duke University

Value of Information Calculations to Inform and Prioritize Clinical Research Investments (PowerPoint® File, 422 KB; Web Version)
David Meltzer, The University of Chicago

Success Stories From AHRQ-Funded Health IT Grants (Session 66)

Health IT Success Stories (PowerPoint® File, 5.8 MB; Web Version)
Rebecca Roper, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Taking Best Practices to Scale: Spreading Effective Health Care Practices and Programs (Session 72)

Taking Best Practices to Scale: Spreading Effective Healthcare Practices & Programs (PowerPoint® File, 290 KB; Web Version)
Wynne E. Norton, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Creating Organizational Climates and Working Conditions That Foster Quality and Safety (Session 42)

Creating Organizational Climates and Working Conditions that Foster Quality and Safety (PowerPoint® File, 2.4 MB; Web Version)
Ann McAlearney, Ohio State University

Increasing the Effective Use of E-standing Orders (PBRN) (Session 59)

Increasing the Effective Use of Electronic Standing Orders (SO-TRIP) (PowerPoint® File, 4.2 MB; Web Version)
Lynne S.Nemeth, Medical University of South Carolina

Understanding the Medicare Coverage With Evidence Development (CED) Loop (Session 74)

NOPR 2006: Results and Lessons Learned (PowerPoint® File, 415 KB; Web Version)
Bruce Hillner, Virginia Commonwealth University

CED in the Private Sector: Lessons in Design and Implementation (PowerPoint® File, 1.8 MB; Web Version)
Steve Phurrough, Center for Medical Technology Policy

CED Data Sources (PowerPoint® File, 590 KB; Web Version)
James Rollins, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

The National Oncologic PET Registry: Background and Operational Overview (PowerPoint® File, 1 MB; Web Version)
Barry Siegel, Washington University School of Medicine

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