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1. Hospital Language Services: Quality Improvement and Performance Measures (pdf file)
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   May 08, 2008 - health status and diminished access to health care are frequent challenges. … the delivery of language services in hospitals and other health care settings. … We used Nerenz and Neil’s paper, “Performance Measures for Health Care Systems,”16 to help us develop … preferred language for health care delivery. … Impact of interpreter services on delivery of health care to limited-English-proficient patients.

2. 2021: An AHRQ Year in Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2022 - The AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network was a vital contributor to HHS’s response … In October, AHRQ launched a free Spanish-language version of our QuestionBuilder app to help Hispanic … The Agency also strove to revitalize primary care , expand access to high-quality behavioral healthcare … conditions, and ensuring that our data analytics are useful for healthcare decision making at Federal … , State, and local levels.

3. Expanding and Enhancing All Payer Claims Database System Capacity in States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   February 01, 2018 - for States seeking solutions to facilitate cost containment and health care reform. … States at the forefront of aggregating health care claims data from payers are facing unique challenges … the value of the data in improving the cost and quality of the health care delivery system. … to individual State design efforts. … Nonclaims Payments APCDs provide comprehensive information about health care costs and services, but

4. EvidenceNOW: Virginia Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2021 - health care delivery by building a critical infrastructure to help smaller primary care practices improve … a changing health care system. … for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Quality Forum (NQF). … made presentations at several national conferences as well as produced a webinar. … Managing Change in Primary Care: A Heart of Virginia Healthcare Report [NAPCRG, 2017] Joy in practice

5. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Virginia Cooperative (pdf file)
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   November 01, 2017 - health care delivery by building a critical infrastructure to help smaller primary care practices improve … United States as a whole, Virginia experiences racial, ethnic, and economic disparities in access … a changing health care system. … Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Quality Forum (NQF). … presentations at several national conferences as well as produced a webinar.

6. Designing and Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care: The Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions - Toolbox (pdf file)
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   July 28, 2016 - to state or national averages] or [insert how current rates compare to top 10% performers]           … and supports, or have a contact at the State Medicaid agency who can assist with these issues; and … care ACCESS TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE  History of receiving behavioral health services  Concern … All individuals determined to require urgent mental health care are initially assessed and treated at … abuse treatment and other health care services at its clinics or through Courage Recovery Center community

7. Practice-Based Population Health: Information Technology to Support Transformation to Proactive Primary Care - Contract No. 290-04-0016 (pdf file)
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   July 01, 2010 - key component of current efforts to improve health care in the United States and of the policy debate … on national health care reform. … Proposed efforts to reform the health care system may provide opportunities to change the reimbursement … health care in the United States and of the policy debate on national health care reform. … Health Care Reform Proposed efforts to reform the country’s health care system and provide insurance

8. Defining Diagnostic Error: A Scoping Review to Assess the Impact of the National Academies’ Report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care (pdf file)
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   April 27, 2022 - Scoping Review to Assess the Impact of the National Academies’ Report Improving Diagnosis in Health … landmark report, Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, and proposed a new definition of diagnostic error … Key Words: diagnostic errors, patient-centered care, delivery of health care, medicine (J Patient … goal is to reduce patient harm.14 The publication of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care consolidated … National Academy of Medicine. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care.

9. Module 5: Resident and Family Engagement: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2017 - Collaboration Residents, families, providers, and health care leaders collaborate in policy and program … the resident and their family, can work as partners to improve health care quality and safety. … Slide 15: Get to Know Your Health Care Team Tool Say: Establishing trust and a relationship is … AHRQ developed a tool to help residents and family members get to know the health care team. … Residents and families should be given access to relevant health care information in ways that the resident

10. Questions and Answers: AHRQ Webinar on Shared Decisionmaking for Chronic Conditions and Long Term Care Planning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - , the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) hosted a National Webinar on the topic of shared … Care System: Shared Decisionmaking for Aging Veterans: It's a Team Effort Moderator: Arlene Bierman … Are there any best practices for when the vet lives in another state and family members are scattered … If a patient is given a new diagnosis, say of diabetes, I would be very quick to offer the services of … to access a service that is not covered by VA.

11. Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training for Health Care Leaders Audio Script | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - Summarize the principles of informed consent in health care. … Priority should be given to persons named in health care proxy or power-of-attorney documents, and the … (See Wellness Hospital's Language Access Plan for details on our interpreter services.) … hospitals and health care systems have chosen this path. … In the Resources section, you will find a Health Care Language Services Implementation Guide that can

12. Prospects For Care Coord. Using Elect Data Sources 3-16-12 (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2012 - a patient’s care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services,1 has been recognized … as a priority area for improving health care delivery in the U.S.2 Robust measures of care coordination … a patient’s care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services.1 It has been recognized … as a priority area for improving health care delivery in the U.S.2 and is a target for efforts to improve … , and is used by health care practitioners to document, monitor, and manage health care delivery within

13. Implementation Guide for AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice - Training Modules (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2017 - Care Leaders (Leaders Module) and Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training for Health Care … Patients and health care teams alike benefit when a patient’s consent to treatment is fully informed … 9). 4Use the Health Care Professional Survey in the Appendix C to understand the extent to which physicians … not look at the form 6 r I was not asked to sign a form Go to Question 23 33Implementation … Staff to exclude: Any staff member who is not eligible to participate in the health care provider training

14. The Medical Home: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know? A Review of the Earliest Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model | PCMH Resource Center
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    March 01, 2013 - central to reforming health care delivery. … are the users of the health care system). … Conclusion and Next Steps The PCMH model is a promising approach to improving health care delivery … Will the patient-centered medical home transform the delivery of health care? … Using complexity theory to build interventions that improve health care delivery in primary care.

15. Engaging Patients and Families in the Medical Home - Appendix | PCMH Resource Center
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    June 01, 2010 - costs or lower use of health care services. … Programs are usually in the community, not in a health care setting. … In addition, a conference for prospective health care homes included presentations by national and local … Through this council, Aurora Health Care hoped to create a place where patients and health care providers … a pool of parents to participate in policymaking at the local or State level.

16. Module 1: Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals (doc file)
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    July 12, 2017 - In: Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices … In: Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices … In: Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices … What’s in it for me?” Talk to them in their language. … You can look at current pressure injury metrics to see what’s working and what’s not.

17. Creating Patient-centered Team-based Primary Care (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2016 - Team-based Primary Care Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Advancing Excellence in Health … Care www.ahrq.gov National Center for Excellence I N P R I M A R Y C A R E R E S E A R C H National … of the health care system—because it is designed to make primary care more comprehensive and accessible … Strategies and examples of how practices and health care systems have overcome these hurdles may prove … Leading organizational learning in health care. Qua Saf Health Care 2002;11(1):51-56. 43.

18. Coordinating Care for Adults With Complex Care Needs in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Challenges and Solutions | PCMH Resource Center
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    January 01, 2012 - Even professionals with expertise in health care delivery and long-term care find it hard to navigate … Rosalie and Robert Kane prominent long-term-care experts, describe the way the current health care system … care system, including specialty care, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, home healthcare, and community … A State health or Medicaid agency (Minnesota Health Care Homes). … Unfortunately, in the current specialist-dominated, FFS-oriented health care system, there is not sufficient

19. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Experiences from the Frontline (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2017 - In situ simulations: Trainings that allow health care teams to practice teamwork and communication and … across the health care delivery system. … to conduct in situ simulations than in earlier efforts and develop a more organized framework to ensure … GOING FORWARD The WakeMed teams took full advantage of their health care system’s supportive culture … KEY STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS A culture of safety across the health care system.

20. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Experiences from the Frontline (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2017 - In situ simulations: Trainings that allow health care teams to practice teamwork and communication and … across the health care delivery system. … to conduct in situ simulations than in earlier efforts and develop a more organized framework to ensure … GOING FORWARD The WakeMed teams took full advantage of their health care system’s supportive culture … KEY STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS A culture of safety across the health care system.