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341. AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program: Federal Partnerships in Improving Health Care Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/it/hitportfolio/index.html
     January 01, 2020 - Current research areas include usability, consumer-focused digital healthcare, clinical decision support … In addition, how e-prescribing standards work in a variety of practice settings, geographic areas, and … At various points in the project, CoPs formed to address these topic areas: Privacy and Security. … AHRQ and the NSF convened a workshop ( Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas … The research agenda can be found at Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas

342. New AHRQ SOPS® Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Nursing Homes - Naomi Yount, PhD (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/nh-workplace-safety-yount.pdf
     January 01, 2023 - Interviewed WPS subject matter experts (SMEs) and nursing home staff Identified key thematic areas … Conducted psychometric analyses Consulted with TEP and finalized items January 2023 33 What areas … • Six composite measures assessing specific areas of nursing home workplace safety: 1. … Identifying areas to improve 2. Planning your improvement initiative 3. … SOPS Nursing Home Survey Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set Survey Development Process What areas

343. 2018 National Healthcare Quality and DIsparities Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2018qdr-final-es.pdf
     September 01, 2019 - 2016-2017, but disparities persist, especially for poor and uninsured populations in all priority areas … The report assesses the performance of our healthcare system and identifies areas of strength and weakness … Quality measures are grouped by priority areas, including person-centered care, patient safety, healthy … Definitions and Abbreviations Used in 2018 Report Definitions Racial and Ethnic Groups Income Urban-Rural Areas

344. Final Progress Report: Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/graber-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - SPECIFIC COMMENT AREAS: Attendance: The attendance goal was 150 participants, but only 130 attended, … Identifying areas for improvement and further research and stimulating interest. … Narrower focus in all areas would help improve outcome. … More emphasis on areas of further research. … More time with breakout groups focused on particular areas of interest.

345. The Four Key Strategies of MRSA Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/key-strategies.html
     October 01, 2024 - This Toolkit highlights four key strategic areas where intervention and improvement can have the greatest … How you approach tackling these areas depends on what is right for your facility or unit.

346. Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? A Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool User's Guide (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/pharmlit.pdf
     October 01, 2007 - Areas of convergence increase the confidence in the findings. … How can it sustain performance in areas of strength? … strength, areas that are being addressed but need improvement, and areas of weakness … The difference between check in/prescription drop-off areas and prescription pick-up areas is clear … Primary care areas c. Information booth in lobby 11.

347. Measuring IT Sophistication in Nursing Homes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Alexander_10.pdf
     January 20, 2008 - o Urban status included facilities that were adjacent to or not adjacent to metro areas in urban counties … Missouri, nearly 45 percent of the IO and NIO nursing home facilities are located in metropolitan areas … ; 24 percent of NIO homes and 13 percent of IO homes are located in rural designated areas … • The majority of NIO facilities with 60 to 120 licensed beds are located in metro-urban areas. … Very small and very large IO facilities are generally not found in rurally designated areas.

348. Final Progress Report: The National Quality Forum National Annual Policy Conference 2006 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/nishimi-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - During the conference, stakeholders from all areas of healthcare shared their perspectives on system-level … issues as well as specific priority areas. … The criteria the agency used to identify the areas were impact, inclusiveness, and improvability. … Future initiatives consist of exploring measures in specialty areas and standardized implementation … National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Hospital Care—Additional Priority Areas, 2005 No appeals

349. Conclusion and Future Directions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/backgroundrpt/conclusion.html
     April 01, 2017 - Varied measures in high-priority clinical areas theoretically feasible using APCD data. … Specifically, mental health and pediatric care are areas where APCD data can uniquely contribute to population

350. Environmental Scan of Measures for Medicaid Title XIX Home and Community-Based Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/report/index.html
     June 01, 2010 - Measures and Gaps Program Performance Measures and Gaps Other Potentially Important Measurement Areas … Measures and Gaps Program Performance Measures and Gaps Other Potentially Important Measurement Areas

351. Overview (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/overview.docx
     March 01, 2017 - Follow these steps to help you connect the improvement areas to the toolkit materials: 1. … Identify the areas of patient safety culture that require improvement in your facility. 2.

352. Appendix III (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/report/apiiig.html
     June 01, 2010 - Measures and Gaps Program Performance Measures and Gaps Other Potentially Important Measurement Areas … States Currently Using: Nevada Psychometric Testing: Not specified Summary: Areas tracked are: … Summary: Survey items are organized into 11 main focus areas: home; paid work; volunteer activities; … Several clinical items also examine areas such as sensory, integumentary and elimination status. … Focus areas include: 1) Service Records; 2) Payment Records, and 3) Employee Records.

353. Surgical Safety: Addressing the JCAHO Goals for Reducing Wrong-site, Wrong-patient, Wrong-procedure Events (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Ludwick.pdf
     June 21, 2004 - In addition, a simple educational tool displayed in numerous OR and clinic areas serves as a reminder … Other clinic areas of the facility are also using the stamp because Addressing JCAHO Surgical Safety … While the OR had a specific patient record-monitoring tool in place, other areas did not. … A condensed version of the tool is displayed in numerous OR areas, the Emergency Department, and each … of the clinic areas.

354. The Power of Patient Stories for Improving the Patient Experience webcast - Grob (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/patient-narratives-webinar-stories.pdf
     July 01, 2020 - July 2020 – Dec, 2021 surveys: 1,026 comments: 2,100 THREE Distinct Areas of Added Value • Provide … THREE Distinct Areas of Added Value Frequency of COVID Comments, All Domains CG CAHPS Domains Integral

355. Series Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/er208-overview.html
     October 01, 2014 - on quality improvement opportunities identified by an Institute of Medicine (IOM) study, Priority Areas … quality improvement strategies related to chronic conditions (diabetes, asthma, hypertension), practice areas … ) for all of the topics was developed to serve as a tool to specify all of the potentially relevant areas … Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement. Adams K, Corrigan J. … Priority areas for national action: transforming health care quality.

356. Electronic Student Health Questionnaire (eSHQ) enhances risk assessment for adolescents | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/co-nm-specialinnovation.html
     August 01, 2015 - of the CHIPRA quality demonstration, students used computer tablets to complete the eSHQ in waiting areas … These reports gave SBHCs a profile of risk for their entire population, which enabled them to act on areas … reports for the State as a whole, giving the State entity that was responsible for SBHCs information on areas … They reported that highlighting risk areas on the screen made it easier to identify health risk behaviors … The screeners were successfully implemented in SBHCs in rural, urban, and frontier areas of both States

357. Overview of the National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/overview/index.html
     October 01, 2024 - Reading the figure below from bottom to top, healthcare organizations first identify priority areas for … They can then drive improvements in those safety areas within their organization by using the National

358. Introduction to the Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators: How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/a1_pdi_intro.pdf
     January 01, 1993 - the problems specific to their own hospital processes, policies, and procedures in order to identify areas … integrated across all stages of the process of quality improvement, from the initial identification of areas … you understand how your organization’s practices align with best practices to identify potential areas … and Debriefing Includes a tool to assist in evaluating the implementation process and identifying areas

359. Value and Efficiency Supplemental Items for Hospitals and Medical Offices - SORRA (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/valuewebcast-sorrarev.pdf
     February 01, 2018 - literature and existing surveys Interviewed experts, providers & staff Identified key thematic areas … definitions of terms and instructions • Do not reword or reorder the survey items • Keep all survey items for areas … you want to assess • Drop all survey items for areas you do not want to assess – Do not pick and choose … survey items across composites/areas 41 Value and Efficiency Item Set Resources • Available on

360. Completing and Scoring the Quality Improvement Change Assessment (QICA) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/qica-scoring.pdf
     January 01, 2018 - discuss the results, produce a consensus version, and develop an action plan for priority improvement areas … practice transformation journey in any content area with average scores below “5” for some (or all) areas … for teams to begin a quality improvement initiative with average scores below "5" on many (or all) areas