AHRQ Views Blog: AHRQ Launches Network To Prevent COVID-19 in Nursing Homes Nationwide

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• AHRQ Views Blog: AHRQ Launches Network To Prevent COVID-19 in Nursing Homes Nationwide.
• Highlights From AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network.
• Webinar on AHRQ’s MEPS-Insurance Component.
• New Research and Evidence From AHRQ.
• AHRQ in the Professional Literature.

AHRQ Views Blog: AHRQ Launches Network To Prevent COVID-19 in Nursing Homes Nationwide

Emerging efforts to prevent COVID-19 in nursing homes via the new AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network are highlighted in a new AHRQ Views blog post by Director Gopal Khanna, M.B.A., and Deputy Director David Meyers, M.D. The network, developed in partnership with the University of New Mexico’s ECHO Institute and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will make free training and mentoring available to the more than 15,000 nursing homes nationwide to help prevent COVID-19 among residents and staff. The ECHO Institute is already recruiting academic medical centers and large health systems across the country to serve as training centers. Training will include best practices in the use of personal protective equipment; infection control; COVID-19 testing and clinical management of asymptomatic and mild cases of COVID-19. Access the blog post and additional information about the network, including how nursing homes can participate and how to register for upcoming informational webinars.

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:

• Catheter-associated urinary tract infection reduction in a pediatric safety engagement network.
• The emergency department trigger tool: a novel approach to screening for quality and safety events.
• Assessing and supporting late career practitioners: four key questions.

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

Webinar on AHRQ’s MEPS-Insurance Component

MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of healthcare and health insurance coverage. Participants will be shown how to use an interactive query tool to generate national and state-level statistics and trends about employer-based health insurance. For more information, contact: WorkshopInfo@ahrq.hhs.gov.

New Research and Evidence From AHRQ

• Resource Allocation and Pandemic Response: An Evidence Synthesis To Inform Decision Making.
• No-Touch Modalities for Disinfecting Patient Rooms in Acute Care Settings: A Rapid Review.

AHRQ in the Professional Literature

High rates of partial participation in the first year of the merit-based incentive payment system. Apathy NC, Everson J. Health Aff 2020 Sep;39(9):1513-21. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Contributions of public health, pharmaceuticals, and other medical care to US life expectancy changes, 1990-2015. Buxbaum JD, Chernew ME, Fendrick AM, et al. Health Aff 2020 Sep;39(9):1546-56. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Using diagnosis codes in claims data to identify cohorts of breast cancer patients following initial treatment. Franc BL, Thombley R, Luo Y, et al. Breast J 2020 Jul;26(7):1472-4. Epub 2020 Jan 20. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Design and evaluation of low-fidelity visual display prototypes for multiple hospital-acquired conditions. Reeder B, Makic MBF, Morrow C, et al. Comput Inform Nurs 2020 Aug 19. [Epub ahead of print.] Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Prevalence of continuous pulse oximetry monitoring in hospitalized children with bronchiolitis not requiring supplemental oxygen. Bonafide CP, Xiao R, Brady PW, et al. JAMA 2020 Apr 21;323(15):1467-77. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Incidence and efficacy of stent placement in leak management after bariatric surgery: an MBSAQIP analysis. Kanters AE, Shubeck SP, Varban OA, et al. Ann Surg 2020 Jan;271(1):134-9. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Improving notifiable disease case reporting through electronic information exchange-facilitated decision support: a controlled before-and-after trial. Dixon BE, Zhang Z, Arno JN, et al. Public Health Rep 2020 May/Jun;135(3):401-10. Epub 2020 Apr 6. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Assessing the quality of human immunodeficiency virus care in nursing homes. Olivieri-Mui B, McGuire J, Griffith J, et al. J Am Geriatr Soc 2020 Jun;68(6):1226-34. Epub 2020 Feb 13. Access the abstract on PubMed®.