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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/safer-guides-slides.pdf
February 18, 2025 - released 2014 & revised 2016 & 2024
• Self-assessment using recommended practices:
► Focused on high-risk areas … Example
System Configuration Guide - Results
High Priority Practices Guide - Results
Areas … • Determined priority areas in need of
focused attention
• Presented findings to VUMC leadership … Configuration Guide - Results
High Priority Practices Guide - Results
Implementation Bar Graph
Areas
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/index.html
July 01, 2023 - Safer report , published in 2020, includes 47 evidence-based patient safety practices in selected harm areas … It includes evidence for more specific harm areas than the preceding reports.
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www.ahrq.gov/pcor/strategic-framework/mission.html
July 01, 2023 - vision drives the mission, the specific goals that make progress towards the mission, and the priority areas … bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/hrqa99a.html
October 01, 2014 - (c) REQUIREMENTS WITH RESPECT TO RURAL AND INNER-CITY AREAS AND PRIORITY POPULATIONS- (1) RESEARCH, EVALUATIONS … and support demonstration projects, with respect to— (A) the delivery of health care in inner-city areas … , and in rural areas (including frontier areas); and (B) health care for priority populations, which
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/ktockt27.html
October 01, 2014 - The Learning Network has had significant impact on the Pennsylvania program in two areas:
The increased … The Learning Network provides expertise to participating States in four key areas critical to ensuring … Illinois also divided its State into zones and deployed vendor staff to each of these areas to provide
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/sops101-webcast-transcript-ad.pdf
June 01, 2020 - Each of the SOPS surveys also assess patient safety culture areas that are unique. … She went on to say, "It's helped us build on areas of strengths, identify areas of weakness, and
implement … Now, we also have optional supplemental items sets that users may add to assess content in areas not … Identify key thematic areas. Develop and cognitively test draft survey items. … There are subgroups for each of these major areas.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps/webinars/2016-materials/teamstepps-monthly-webinar-april2016.pptx
January 01, 2016 - pre-surgery time out and checklists in surgery services
Soon recognized the need to expand to other clinical areas … implementation in 2016
Written approval from senior leadership and board chair
Define processes and clinical areas … baseline measures
2016 outcomes align with the clinical agenda of Clinical Services Group
Clinical areas … Clinical focus areas:
Nursing units
Intensive Care Units
Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Labor & Delivery
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www.ahrq.gov/sdoh-challenge/data_resources.html
December 01, 2018 - Resources Files https://data.hrsa.gov/
HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Professional Shortages Areas
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Kleinpeter.pdf
January 01, 2004 - In these instances, procedures were moved to clinical areas
Advances in Patient Safety: Vol. 4 … Since the scope of this performance improvement project covered many areas of
the hospital, and is not … of the JCAHO 2004 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) by this
department, addressed many of the areas … The
nursing staff maintains the safety, security, and distribution of medications in the
clinic areas … This process must occur consistently during procedures in the
ambulatory areas as well.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptflow/appendix-a.html
April 01, 2020 - Each example includes the strategy, result, hospital demographics, type of staff involved, clinical areas … The solutions are listed under four major areas: access, throughput, ancillary, and disposition.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/tools/astd-coaching-self-assessment-form.pdf
May 31, 2023 - They represent areas in which you need to excel in order to fulfill your coaching
role successfully … abilities and interests of the person you are coaching directs your
coaching efforts to the most critical areas … Which two or three competency areas do you need to improve most?
3. … What's in it for you to better yourself in these areas?
4. What have you tried before?
5. … What steps can you take personally to improve in these areas?
6.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/4-unc-webcast-fenton-wilhelm-amos.pdf
August 15, 2019 - Compiled best practices from high-functioning organizations/areas
4. … • Created Education for nurses and physicians
• Launch process:
• Chose Launch Areas
• Provided education … Committee
• Perform Learning from Defects (LFD) tool
for those reports assigned with a SAC 2
and 3
Areas … software for easier submission
• Created a new process for event review
• Launched new process in 7 areas … both inpatient and outpatient, with planned
launch in all areas within a year
• Re-launched our Patient
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module2/putoolkit_module2_tools.docx
February 16, 2011 - This tool can be used to identify people from different interdisciplinary areas to take part on the implementation … (check all that apply)
Determine areas for more analysis or evaluation
Set priorities and allocate … The tool is one of a series of Facility Assessment Checklists used to identify areas that need improvement … not currently using the Norton or Braden risk assessment, does your screening address the following areas … Tools 13
Assessment of Pressure Ulcer Care Plan
Does the care plan for pressure ulcers address all the areas
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/058-nursing-protocol-showering-liquid.docx
October 01, 2024 - .
· The general guideline is to apply CHG from the cleanest to the dirtiest areas.
· Make sure patient … Clean from the top down (cleanest to dirtiest areas). … Staff may need to help the patient wash areas that they cannot reach.
8.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqdr16/appendixd_definitions.pdf
January 01, 2013 - Urban-Rural Areas
Urban and rural areas are defined based on the National Center for Health Statistics … Data
Appendix D: Definitions Used in 2016 Report
Racial and Ethnic Groups
Income
Urban-Rural Areas
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www.ahrq.gov/chsp/about-chsp/centers/nber.html
July 01, 2019 - measures to study variation in performance across organizational types, health systems, and geographic areas … health system organization and performance at a point in time, changes over time, and across geographic areas … initiative, five research projects are underway to examine delivery system performance in several distinct areas … providers to the markets in which they participate (e.g., hospital referral regions, primary care service areas
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/tcd/key-driver.html
September 01, 2021 - improve care for chronic diseases, but these resources were rarely devoted to children and only to those areas … These are generally focused either on improvement in the areas for which financial incentives have been … Other priorities are in high cost areas that are almost exclusively in the adult population. … This means incentives are provided to the health plans to focus improvement efforts on those specific areas
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/advance-organizational-safety-strategies-slides.pdf
June 18, 2024 - Questions to Run On
How can the self-assessment tool help organizations
identify and prioritize areas … with
deploying the Self-Assessment Tool to ASSESS your current
state in each of the 4 foundational areas … advocacy groups
• UHG Plan:
• Assess our current state
• Leverage our best practices
• Prioritize areas … 42
Quality and Safety Goals
January 2024
• Quality and safety goal requirement for all
business areas … Co-chairs join NSC
meetings for feedback and to ensure coordination across focus areas.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cdom1102.html
October 01, 2014 - Kayani adds, "Inspired by this project, we created a ranking system for the counties, highlighting areas … necessary data for the general public, as well as State and local policymakers to identify priority areas
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cdom0710.html
October 01, 2014 - When nations are shown to perform well in specific areas, those nations' "best practices" may be used … Work is underway to implement more quality indicators and data collection in the areas of patient safety