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Research Studies is a compilation of published research articles funded by AHRQ or authored by AHRQ researchers.
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1 to 3 of 3 Research Studies DisplayedWerner NE, Gurses AP, Leff B
Improving care transitions across healthcare settings through a human factors approach.
This article describes how a systems' approach known as Human Factors and Ergonomics can complement and further strengthen efforts to improve care transitions.
AHRQ-funded; HS022916.
Citation: Werner NE, Gurses AP, Leff B .
Improving care transitions across healthcare settings through a human factors approach.
J Healthc Qual 2016 Nov/Dec;38(6):328-43. doi: 10.1097/jhq.0000000000000025.
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Keywords: Healthcare Delivery, Provider, Hospital Discharge, Patient Safety, Transitions of Care
Tucker CM, Wall WA, Wippold G
Development of an inventory for health-care office staff to self-assess their patient-centered cultural sensitivity.
The researchers sought to determine the psychometric properties of the Tucker-Culturally Sensitive Health Care Office Staff Inventory-Self-Assessment Form (T-CSHCOSI-SAF). They found that this inventory has 2 factors with high internal consistency reliability. They concluded that the T-CSHCOSI-SAF is a useful inventory for health-care office staff to assess their own level of patient-centered cultural sensitivity and that it can be used in the development and implementation of trainings to promote patient-centered cultural sensitivity of health-care office staff.
AHRQ-funded; HS013151; HS010726.
Citation: Tucker CM, Wall WA, Wippold G .
Development of an inventory for health-care office staff to self-assess their patient-centered cultural sensitivity.
Health Serv Res Manag Epidemiol 2016 Apr 27;3. doi: 10.1177/2333392816629600.
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Keywords: Healthcare Delivery, Cultural Competence, Patient-Centered Healthcare, Primary Care, Provider
Pylypchuk Y, Sarpong E
AHRQ Author: Pylypchuk Y, Sarpong E
Nurse practitioners and their effects on visits to primary care physicians.
The researchers examined the effects of visits to nurse practitioners (NPs) on the demand for primary care physician services. Using a system of simultaneous equations where states’ education requirements for NPs are an identifying exclusion restriction, they found that patients who visit an NP are significantly less likely to visit PCPs, and to receive prescribed medication, medical check-up, and diagnosis from PCPs.
AHRQ-authored
Citation: Pylypchuk Y, Sarpong E .
Nurse practitioners and their effects on visits to primary care physicians.
B E J Econom Anal Policy 2015 Apr;15(2):837–64..
Keywords: Healthcare Delivery, Education: Continuing Medical Education, Primary Care, Provider, Workforce