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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/index.html
Areas of Interest
Materials by Topic
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www.ahrq.gov/gam/index.html
Areas of Interest
About Guidelines and Measures
Find information on the legacy
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Tupper_73.pdf
March 20, 2008 - , 2 As a result, rural hospitals historically have been exempt from patient safety
expectations in areas … Insufficient volume complicates reliable measurement of
safety in many areas of the hospital. … to address safety
problems related to medication errors, infections, and other core patient safety areas … safety 72 80a 71 74
Organizational learning, continuous improvement 76 77 71 69
Teamwork within areas … 52a 50 55
Hospital management support for patient safety 72 78a 60 69
Teamwork across hospital areas
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www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/training/index.html
February 01, 2023 - TAKEheart training materials are organized into consolidated curricula for each of four focus areas. … TAKEheart Focus Areas
Getting Started
Review the steps necessary for laying the foundation … Available for Download
The training materials included within each of the above-listed, four focus areas
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/SOPS101_Webcast_Transcript.pdf
June 01, 2022 - We focus on areas of greatest impact. … Gray, Slide 15
So this slide right here shows some areas of patient safety culture that are assessed … And each of the SOPS surveys also assess patient safety culture areas that are unique as well. … There are also optional supplemental items that users may add to
assess content in areas not included … And this really helps you to
identify areas of strengths and areas of safety culture improvement.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/051-top-10-successful-decolonization.docx
October 01, 2024 - Be attentive to commonly missed areas when cleaning.1
Remember to thoroughly clean high-risk areas, including
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/implement/activity/coach.html
June 01, 2023 - teamwork behaviors to ensure continued use of implemented tools and strategies and to identify new areas … Three specific areas of coaching competency relate to communication:
Communicating Instructions – … Four areas of coaching competency relate to performance improvement:
Setting Performance Goals – … Four areas of coaching competencies relate to relationship building:
Building Rapport and Trust – … Two areas of coaching competency relate to execution.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/patients-families/consumer-exp/reporting/chapter6.html
August 01, 2022 - time members of the TEP graciously devoted to this project, we were unable to explore all possible areas … although the TEP consisted of a diverse group of individuals with experience in a range of relevant areas … There are several areas in which the TEP chose not to develop explicit recommendations. … Policy considerations related to these rapidly changing areas include the following:
Data sharing … Three areas in particular in which policies are needed to maintain confidentiality are data transmission
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/future-directions.html
May 01, 2024 - Health Equity
Primary Care Workforce
Public Health and Community Integration
Additional Topic Areas … alignment across initiatives and avoid redundant efforts, identify research and information gaps and areas … Care Research section , AHRQ's recently funded grants are not equally distributed across the topic areas … Primary Care ; 6 the administration’s priorities; and additional insights about high-impact research areas
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/index.html
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PQMP Measures
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www.ahrq.gov/npsd/index.html
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Resources
Information on Federally listed Patient Safety Organizations
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight11.pdf
September 08, 2015 - Several States indicated that selecting
priority areas was difficult and slow
when groups new to QI … In addition, both of
these States and Maine developed short
fact sheets on potential QI areas that … [Performance on] all
of the measures hasn’t been great,
so bringing awareness to those
areas has been … Similarly, North Carolina
made modest but meaningful
improvements in most of the areas it
focused … technical
assistance to help them interpret
practice-level quality reports, identify
QI priority areas
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/primary-care-research/methods.html
January 01, 2024 - Based on this review, AHRQ investments were grouped into three areas of primary care research capacity … Categories in AHRQ's Primary Care Research Investments (1990-2020): Topics for Primary Care Research and Areas … for Capacity Development
The three areas of primary care research capacity development included:
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/valuewebcasttranscript.pdf
January 09, 2018 - We also shared those draft survey items and domains, thematic areas, with a technical expert panel who … provided
input about things that might be missing and areas to focus on. … You see that the top two areas
are similar for both the hospitals and the medical offices. … the survey
items for the areas you do not want to assess. … Monthly we also provide
those results in the areas that we're measuring.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/041-ss-training-preop-chg-bathing.pptx
April 01, 2025 - Massage CHG firmly onto all areas of the patient’s body.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/measuring-safety-culture.pdf
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► Verbal aggression … Safety Climate across 60Ascension Health Hospitals
Safety Climate across 890Ascension Health Clinical Areas
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-rural-healthcare-references.html
October 01, 2024 - Action
A Path to Rural Diagnostic Excellence
Improving Diagnosis in the Context of Rurality
Three Areas … One in Five Americans Live in Rural Areas. … Trends in death rates in urban and rural areas: United States, 1999-2019. NCHS Data Brief, no 417. … Higher rates of emergency surgery, serious complications, and readmissions in primary care shortage areas … https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-determinants-health . U.S.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/carecoordination/carecoordination.html
June 01, 2018 - The purpose of the reports is to assess the performance of our health system and to identify areas of … Despite progress in some areas, disparities related to race and socioeconomic status persist among measures
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/personcentered/pfcc.html
June 01, 2018 - The purpose of the reports is to assess the performance of our health system and to identify areas of … Despite progress in some areas, disparities related to race and socioeconomic status persist among measures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/2-overview-guide.docx
June 01, 2023 - model for sustainable safety improvement that has been associated with preventing harm in multiple areas … for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery
This section is designed to help a hospital identify focus areas … A Gap Analysis and Goal Setting Form will help you identify which areas are most in need of improvement