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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/mcaidread_tool12_collaboration.docx
June 02, 2025 - Tool 12: Cross Continuum Collaboration Tool
Tool 12: Cross-continuum collaboration tool
Purpose
This tool helps teams develop specific effective and timely linkages to services with cross-continuum clinical, behavioral, and social services providers.
Description
Hospital readmission reduction teams need to identify…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/vu_physician_patient_harms.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Understanding Physicians' and Patients' Views of Harms and Clinical Preventive Services
Research Centers for Excellence
in Clinical Preventive Services
Working to get the right services, to the right people, at the right time
Understanding Physicians’ and Patients’ Views
of Harms and Clini…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/cmsqualconf0615.pdf
September 01, 2015 - Second Annual CMS Quality Conference: Improving Care and Proving It!
National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality
Demonstration Grant Program: An Update
Second Annual CMS Quality Conference:
Improving Care and Proving It!
Baltimore, Maryland
June 15, 2012
http://www.urban.org/index.cfm
Mathematica: H.…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/no-more-cauti-slides.html
December 01, 2017 - No More CAUTI: Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (May 5, 2015)
Slide Presentation
Slide 1
No More CAUTI - Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Elizabeth Mizerek, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, FN-CSA
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Mercer County Community College
Slide 2…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/nursing-protocols/standard-protocol-iodophor.pdf
March 01, 2022 - Standardized Nursing Protocol: Use of Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine)
Decolonization of
Non-ICU Patients With Devices
Section 9-4 – Standardized Nursing Protocol:
Use of Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine)
The following is a standing order protocol for implementing nasal decolonization in adult non-
i…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/nursing-protocols/standard-protocol-iodophor.docx
March 01, 2022 - Standardized Nursing Protocol for Iodophor
Decolonization of
Non-ICU Patients With Devices
Section 9-4 – Standardized Nursing Protocol:
Use of Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine)
The following is a standing order protocol for implementing nasal decolonization in adult non-intensive care unit (ICU) patients who are m…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/nursing-protocols/standing-order-protocol-mupirocin.pdf
March 01, 2022 - Standing Order Protocol: Nasal Mupirocin
Decolonization of
Non-ICU Patients With Devices
Section 9-3 – Standing Order Protocol:
Nasal Mupirocin
The following is a standing order protocol for implementing nasal decolonization in adult non-
intensive care unit (ICU) patients who are methicillin-resistant S…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/effectivetreatment/effectivetreatment.html
June 01, 2018 - Chartbook on Effective Treatment
Effective Treatment
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Chartbook on Effective Treatment
Acknowledgments
Effective Treatment
Effective Treatment Trends and Measures
Cardiovascular Disease
Cancer
Chronic Kidney Disease
Diabetes
HIV and AIDS
Men…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/contentcalls/physengagement-slides/Physician-Engagement-Sept-13-2011-508.ppt
January 01, 2011 - Project Report - Lean Sigma
Physician Engagement
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Story of cardiac surgeon not doing check list. Cardiac SICU one year zero infections, then BAM! two infections linked to one noncompliant cardiac surgeon. Or other example story of physicians not being engaged in QI
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One of the issues we hear our teams talk ab…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/5-2023hcbs-survey-webcast-rubin.pdf
December 31, 2023 - Participating in the 2023 CAHPS® Home and Community-Based Services Survey Database: What You Need to Know - Rubin
CAHPS HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED
SERVICES SURVEY DATABASE
Joshua Rubin
Lead Research Associate
HCBS CAHPS Database,
Westat
CAHPS Database Overview
• Central repository of data for selected CAHPS sur…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/professional-tool.html
July 01, 2023 - Shadowing Another Professional Tool
AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care
Problem Statement: Health care delivery is a multidisciplinary practice that requires coordination of care among different professions and provider types. However, health care providers often do not understand other discip…
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-cognitive-load2.html
August 01, 2024 - Cognitive Load Theory and Its Impact on Diagnostic Accuracy
Fundamental Concepts for Understanding Cognitive Load
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Cognitive Load Theory and Its Impact on Diagnostic Accuracy
Introduction to Diagnostic Errors
Fundamental Concepts for Understanding Cogniti…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/app-i.html
May 01, 2017 - Appendix I. Checklist Observation Tool and FAQs - Implementation Guide
Why Should We Use This Tool?
Monitoring checklist use is an extremely important part of this project. Performing observations can often reveal weaknesses in checklist performance that may otherwise go unnoticed. This tool allows you to col…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/multidiscplinary-rounding.pdf
April 01, 2022 - Making It Work Tip Sheet: Multidisciplinary Rounding for Patient Safety
AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units:
Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI
Making It Work Tip Sheet
Multidisciplinary Rounding for Patient Safety
This “Making It Work” tip sheet provides additional information to help intensive car…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol-lipid-algorithm.pdf
December 14, 2015 - Heart Health Now Lipid Algorithm
Heart Health Now Lipid Algorithm
Adapted from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Lipid Algorithm
Men aged >35 y, women aged
> 45 y, and all patients with
ASCVD
Does the patient have CHF
(EF <0.35 and NYHA class >1)
and ESRD, and has the patient
been on dialysis or …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/clabsi-tools/central-venous-access-device-dressing-change-procedure.pdf
December 01, 2006 - IV Therapy: Central Venous Access Device (VAD), Dressing Change Procedure
Version 1.0
Policy Number GEN341
Effective Date 12/01/2006
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Nursing Practice and Organization Manual Vol II: Clinical
Protocols and Procedures
Approval Date N/A
Page 1of 3Subject
IV Therapy: Central Venous Acces…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/surgical-skin-prep-audit-tool.docx
December 01, 2017 - Surgical Skin Preparation Audit Tool
Surgical Skin Preparation Audit Tool
Introduction
Problem Statement
Surgical skin preparation is an important strategy to prevent surgical site infection. Adequate surgical skin preparation reduces the burden of skin microorganisms prior to incision. Though it seems straightforwar…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/healthitwebinar/sops-hit-webcast4-yount.pdf
June 02, 2025 - New AHRQ SOPS™ Health Information Technology Patient Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals - (Yount)
Introducing the AHRQ SOPS
Health IT Patient Safety
Supplemental Items
Naomi Yount, PhD
Westat
Health IT Patient Safety
Supplemental Items
• Supplemental item set that can be added
to the end of the Hospit…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/aian-trust-responsibility.html
November 01, 2024 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders
AHRQ’s Role in Meeting the American Indian/Alaska Native Trust Responsibility
NOV
7
2024
By
Members of AHRQ’s National Advisory Council:
Peter B. Angood, M.D.; Mason B. Emert, M.P.H.; Sharon Weidner Hickman, M.B.A., C.P.H.Q.; and Sinsi Hernán…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/202503.html
June 01, 2025 - Virginia Health System Uses AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® To Improve Quality of Care
Search All Impact Case Studies
June 2025
Riverside Health System, based in Newport News, VA, has been using the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture ® (SOPS) for nearly a decade, administering surveys annually …