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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/mccannon/index.html
December 01, 2020 - The Spread Problem
Slide Presentation by Joe McCannon
On February 17, Joe McCannon made this slide presentation at the AHRQ Expert Meeting on the Challenge and Promise of Delivery System Research.
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Slide 1
The Spread Problem
The Challenge and Promise of …
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/carecoordination/carecoordination.html
June 01, 2018 - Chartbook on Care Coordination
Care Coordination
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Table of Contents
Chartbook on Care Coordination
Acknowledgments
Care Coordination
Trends in Care Coordination Measures
Transitions of Care
Preventable Emergency Department Visits
Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizati…
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/quality-measures.html
Topic: Quality Measures
Measures used to assess and compare the quality of health care organizations are classified as either a structure, process, or outcome measure.
Background Report for the Request for Public Comment on Initial, Recommended Core Set of Children's Health…
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/clinician/ahrq-works/index.html
July 01, 2017 - AHRQ Works
This series of documents provide examples of how AHRQ's research-backed tools are being used in practice.
AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice
Provides examples of how AHRQ is building the bridge between research and practice to:
Keep patients safe.
Help doctors and n…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/videos/02d-psych-safety/index.html
June 01, 2018 - Psychological Safety
CUSP Toolkit
The CUSP toolkit includes training tools to make care safer by improving the foundation of how your physicians, nurses, and other clinical team members work together. These videos reinforce the material presented in each module of the CUSP toolkit.
Psychological Safety …
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/rural-health.html
Topic: Rural Health
The AHRQ Policy on the Inclusion of Priority Populations in Research (NOT-HS-03-010) requires that priority populations be included in all AHRQ-supported research projects involving human subjects, unless a clear and compelling rationale and justification is provided that inclusion is inappropriat…
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/situation/tools/step.html
June 01, 2023 - Tool: STEP
STEP is a mnemonic tool that can help individuals monitor critical elements of a situation and the overall environment. It is suitable for use by teams supporting acutely ill patients in a hospital (e.g., an ICU patient the team hopes to wean off a ventilator as quickly as possible), for teams in lon…
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www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/training/getting-started/index.html
April 01, 2023 - Getting Started
This focus area will walk you through the necessary first steps for launching a quality improvement initiative aimed at increasing cardiac rehabilitation (CR) participation.
CR has been proven to greatly improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs, yet patient participation in CR r…
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/tools/sbar.html
November 01, 2019 - Tool: SBAR
SBAR, which stands for Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (or Request), is a structured communication framework that can help teams share information about the condition of a patient or team member or about another issue your team needs to address.
In phrasing a conversation with…
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/situation/tools/star.html
July 01, 2024 - Tool: STAR
STAR is a mnemonic tool that is used extensively to help elicit and share key information about activities and their consequences. Its key elements include: Situation monitoring often requires analyzing situations in which tasks were assigned, were completed, and resulted in outcomes that might or mi…
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www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/about/initiative/index.html
December 01, 2022 - The TAKEheart Initiative
Aims
AHRQ's TAKEheart initiative seeks to increase participation in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) among eligible patients nationwide.
Key Components
TAKEheart promotes two proven strategies for increasing referral and enrollment in CR:
Implementing automatic referral to make …
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www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/about/index.html
December 01, 2022 - What is TAKEheart?
TAKEheart is an AHRQ initiative to help hospitals increase participation in cardiac rehabilitation (CR). CR is a medically supervised secondary prevention program that provides patient-centric education, risk factor mitigation, supervised exercise training, and psychosocial support to improve…
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www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/assessing/index.html
August 01, 2023 - Assessing TAKEheart
Through our assessment of TAKEheart, we learned many lessons that will help guide future work in this area.
Our Evaluation Report Executive Summary describes the project activities, key findings, lessons learned, and recommendations for future similar efforts. Our Hybrid Cardiac Rehabilita…
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/tools/sharq.html
May 01, 2023 - Tool: SHARQ
S ituation
H istory
A ssessment
R ecommendations/Result
Q uestions
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www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/beyond/index.html
December 01, 2022 - Beyond TAKEheart
Improving Cardiac Rehabilitation & Other Paths to Heart Health
The work to increase participation in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is far from done! AHRQ and our partner organizations remain committed to increasing CR participation while also aiming at the broader goal of improving heart health…
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/tools/anticipate.html
May 01, 2023 - Tool: ANTICipate
A dministrative data
N ew clinical information
T asks to be performed
I llness severity
C ontingency plans for changes
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/results/infographics.html
January 01, 2023 - EvidenceNOW Infographics
AHRQ's EvidenceNOW data infographics provide visual snapshots of the program improvements in delivery of heart health and quality improvement in participating primary care practices.
EvidenceNOW Infographics:
Strategies Used by Effective Practice Facilitators (PDF, 544 KB) …
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/implement/activity.html
June 01, 2023 - Implementation Activities
The implementation activities for section 4 consist of the following:
Implementation Planning
Coaching
Change Management
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/tools/handoff.html
May 01, 2023 - Tool: Handoff
A handoff is a standardized method for transferring information, along with authority and responsibility, during transitions in patient care. Handoffs include the transfer of knowledge and information about the degree of uncertainty (uncertainty about diagnoses, etc.), response to treatment, recen…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/infection-checklist.html
December 01, 2012 - Infection Checklist
CUSP Toolkit
Who should use this tool? Infection preventionists.
Checklist items
Leader Responsible
Date Started
1. Meet with the CEO and hospital project leader to learn about the initiative and understand the infection prevention (IP) roles.
2. Introduce …