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Today's Headlines:

• Study Finds Patients Who Self-Test Negative for COVID-19 Not Properly Quarantining.
• ´óÏóÊÓƵto Seek New Director of Patient Safety.
• Kids Get Preventive Care More Often When Their Parents Do Too, ´óÏóÊÓƵStudy Finds.
• ´óÏóÊÓƵSeeks Examples of Impact for Development of Case Studies.
• Highlights From ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s Patient Safety Network.
• New Research and Evidence From AHRQ.
• ´óÏóÊÓƵin the Professional Literature.

Study Finds Patients Who Self-Test Negative for COVID-19 Not Properly Quarantining

A substantial proportion of U.S. adults who tested negative for COVID-19 with at-home self-test kits indicated that they would not follow recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for self-quarantine even if they had direct exposure and symptoms, an AHRQ-funded study published in JAMA Internal Medicine concluded. In the study, conducted from June–July 2021, 338 adults 21 and older were asked to complete an online survey on their interpretation of at-home COVID-19 self-test results. Participants were given 1 of 3 instruction types and were presented with 1 of 4 risk scenarios. The goal was to assess how users interpret and act on results when given instructions authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, instructions based on decision science principles, or no instructions. Many respondents indicated they would ignore conditions posing a high risk of infection such as symptoms or known exposure, draw false reassurance from a negative result or fail to quarantine. Access the .

´óÏóÊÓƵto Seek New Director of Patient Safety

´óÏóÊÓƵwill soon announce through the a vacancy for Director of the Agency’s Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS). The CQuIPS Director will plan and direct a comprehensive research agenda to evaluate the nation’s quality and safety of healthcare. Other responsibilities include overseeing research to assess consumer and provider perceptions of healthcare culture, services and systems and developing and testing measures, tools, and methods to evaluate and improve the safety and quality of healthcare. The vacancy posting is expected on July 1 and will be open through July 30. Watch this space and the for more information.

Kids Get Preventive Care More Often When Their Parents Do Too, ´óÏóÊÓƵStudy Finds

Ensuring that parents get regular preventive care will help children get it as well, an AHRQ-funded study has found. The study, published in Academic Pediatrics, found that children in two-parent households had an 11 percent greater rate of yearly well-child visits when both parents received preventive care. Children in households with only a father had a 7 percent greater rate of yearly well-child visits when their father received preventive care, while children in homes with only a mother were 6 percent more likely to have yearly well-child visits when their mother received preventive care. Researchers reviewed data from the electronic health records nearly 92,000 families receiving care from 363 community health centers in 17 states to draw their conclusions. Access the .

´óÏóÊÓƵSeeks Examples of Impact for Development of Case Studies

Has your organization used an ´óÏóÊÓƵtool to improve patient care, make a culture change or save costs? We would like to learn more about your use of ´óÏóÊÓƵresources to develop Impact Case Studies. Since 2004, the agency has developed more than 450 Impact Case Studies that illustrate ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s contributions to healthcare improvement. Available online and searchable via an interactive map, the Impact Case Studies help to tell the story of how AHRQ-funded research findings, data and tools have made an impact on the lives of millions of American patients. To help us share your impact story, send a short description of how and where ´óÏóÊÓƵresources were used, along with your contact information, to ImpactCaseStudies@ahrq.hhs.gov.

Highlights From ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s Patient Safety Network

´¡±á¸é²Ï’s highlights journal articles, books and tools related to patient safety. Articles featured this week include:

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Review additional new publications in PSNet’s or access recent in ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web).

New Research and Evidence From AHRQ

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´óÏóÊÓƵin the Professional Literature

Incorporating harms into the weighting of the revised ´óÏóÊÓƵ Patient Safety for Selected Indicators Composite (Patient Safety Indicator 90). Zrelak PA, Utter GH, Mcdonald KM, et al. Health Serv Res 2022 Jun;57(3):654-67. Epub 2022 Jan 9. Access the on PubMed®.

Anxiety, depression, and quality of life after procedural intervention for uterine fibroids. Wallace K, Stewart EA, Wise LA, et al. J Womens Health 2022 Mar;31(3):415-24. Epub 2021 Jun 8. Access the on PubMed®.

Exploring the relationship between community program location and community needs. Shadowen H, O'loughlin K, Cheung K, et al. J Am Board Fam Med 2022 Jan-Feb;35(1):55-72. Access the on PubMed®.

Assessing adverse event reports of hysteroscopic sterilization device removal using natural language processing. Mao J, Sedrakyan A, Sun T, et al. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2022 Apr;31(4):442-51. Epub 2021 Dec 21. Access the on PubMed®.

A heart healthy intervention improved tobacco screening rates and cessation support in primary care practices. Kowitt SD, Goldstein AO, Cykert S. J Prev 2022 Jun;43(3):375-86. Epub 2022 Mar 17. Access the on PubMed®.

Patient navigator team perceptions on the implementation of a citywide breast cancer patient navigation protocol: a qualitative study. Loo S, Mullikin K, Robbins C, et al. BMC Health Serv Res 2022 May 21;22(1):683. Access the on PubMed®.

Post-acute care transitions and outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries in assisted living communities. Wang J, Mao Y, Mcgarry B, et al. J Am Geriatr Soc 2022 May;70(5):1429-41. Epub 2022 Jan 25. Access the on PubMed®.

Validation of an instrument for real-time assessment of neonatal intubation skills: a randomized controlled simulation study. Kuijpers L, Binkhorst M, Yamada NK, et al. Am J Perinatol 2022 Jan;39(2):195-203. Epub 2020 Sep 8. Access the on PubMed®.