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February 01, 2022 - Henry Ford Hospital's Hematology-Oncology Unit Uses AHRQ Safety Program to Lower Bloodstream Infections
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February 2022
Using AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program ( CUSP ), Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit has reduced the incidence of central line-associated bloodstream …
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July 01, 2019 - Health insurance eligibility rates for private-sector employees increased in 2018, but take-up rates declined
Health insurance eligibility rates for private-sector employees increased in 2018, but take-up rates declined (PDF, 112 KB)
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April 01, 2020 - Maine Hospital Speeds Patients’ Admitting Time from the Emergency Department After Using AHRQ Tools
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April 2020
LincolnHealth, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Damariscotta, Maine, improved the timeliness of admitting patients from the emergency department into a hospital u…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201607.html
January 01, 2018 - South Carolina Hospital’s Use of AHRQ Patient Safety Program Leads to Significant Drop in Urinary Infections
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July 2016
Implementation of an AHRQ patient safety program helped the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) hospital reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infe…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/optimize-health-it.html
November 01, 2018 - Key Driver 3: Optimize Health Information Systems to Extract Data and Support Use of Evidence in Practice
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Accurate and actionable data are needed to put evidence into practice, and clinical information systems can facilitate or hamper a practice’s ability to generate and use data. Pract…
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November 01, 2018 - Key Driver 2: Implement a Data-driven Quality Improvement Process to Integrate Evidence into Practice Procedures
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Evidence is always evolving, so practices have to change if they are to stay current. Quality improvement (QI) is a systematic, data-driven process for managing that change. …
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March 01, 2024 - Webinar: Managing Urinary Incontinence in Primary Care: Sharing Progress and Resources from AHRQ's EvidenceNOW Initiative
Date: November 6, 2023 This 90-minute webinar showcases the progress of AHRQ's EvidenceNOW: Managing Urinary Incontinence (MUI) initiative. It features five grantees working to help primary…
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March 01, 2025 - Webinar: Implementing Urinary Incontinence Management in Primary Care: Case Studies from AHRQ's EvidenceNOW Program
Recording YouTube embedded video: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/YtzRXirOr74 Implementing Urinary Incontinence Management in Primary Care: Case Studies from AHRQ's EvidenceNOW Program (1:5…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/calman.html
October 01, 2015 - A Study of the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Lessons From a New York State Community Health Center
Principal Investigator: Neil Calman, MD
Institution: The Institute for Family Health
AHRQ Grant Number: R18 HS019076
Number and Type of Practices
This project included 14 FQHCs bel…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldatatab2-7.html
May 01, 2018 - Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement
Table 2-7. Selected Characteristics of the American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) Population in the United States
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May 01, 2018 - Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement
Table 1-1. Categories and Definitions Promulgated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. Bureau of the Census
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/match/appendix/app-8.html
July 01, 2022 - Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation
Appendix, Sample Letter to Discipline-Specific Leaders on Meeting Regarding Training and Implementation Strategy for Medication Reconciliation
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July 01, 2022 - Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation
Appendix, Sample Communication from Discipline-Specific Leadership to Staff on Medication Reconciliation Educational Training Sessions
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December 01, 2012 - Appendix A: Members of the 2012 AHRQ Subcommittee to the National Advisory Council on Children's Health Quality Measures (SNAC)
Recommendations to Improve Children's Health Care Quality Measures
This background report describes the process used to identify, evaluate, and select children's health care quality …
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December 01, 2020 - Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement Using CAHPS® Surveys: Summary of Presentations
Summary of Meeting Highlights
On October 7, 2020, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) convened an invitation-only research meeting to discuss improving patient exper…
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/vaccination-campaign.html
August 01, 2022 - AHCA/NCAL Expands Campaign To Encourage COVID-19 Vaccination Among Long Term Care Staff
Resource: AHCA/NCAL Expands Campaign To Encourage COVID-19 Vaccination Among Long Term Care Staff
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight05.html
November 01, 2013 - How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States encouraging health care providers to put quality measures to work?
Evaluation Highlight No. 5
Author: Leslie Foster
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July 01, 2019 - Advanced Methods in Delivery System Research - Planning, Executing, Analyzing, and Reporting Research on Delivery System Improvement
Webinar #1: Fuzzy Set Analysis (Video)
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Fuzzy Set Analysis (1 hour 58 seconds)
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July 01, 2013 - Advanced Methods in Delivery System Research - Planning, Executing, Analyzing, and Reporting Research on Delivery System Improvement
Webinar #2: Statistical Process Control (Slide Presentation)
This slide presentation was presented on May 14, 2013.
Presenter: Jill Marsteller, PhD, MPP Discussant: Stephen Al…
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July 01, 2019 - Advanced Methods in Delivery System Research - Planning, Executing, Analyzing, and Reporting Research on Delivery System Improvement
Webinar #2: Statistical Process Control (Video)
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Statistical Process Control (57 minutes 13 seconds)
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