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January 01, 2011 - www.transitionalcare.info
Across Reported RCTs, TCM has…
Increased time to first readmission or … Comprehensive discharge planning and home follow-up of hospitalized elders: a randomized clinical trial … Comprehensive discharge planning and home follow-up of hospitalized elders: a randomized clinical trial … Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01659.x.
www.transitionalcare.info … www.transitionalcare.info
Implementation Progress
Aetna – expansion of TCM proposed as part of Aetna’s Strategic Plan
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October 01, 2020 - This includes care your child got in
person, by phone, or by video. … In the last 6 months, did your child have an
illness, injury, or condition that needed
care right away … she get health
care in person, by phone, or by video? … Is your child able to talk with doctors
about his or her health care? … Do not include dental visits or care
your child got when he or she stayed overnight
in a hospital.
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July 01, 2023 - Feedback was robust from dozens of organizations representing views from the academy, clinical practice … assessable and actionable formats for sharing with the public, policymakers, healthcare executives, clinical … Primary care transformation that includes leveraging digital and clinical decision support and new models … AHRQ is already in the implementation phase of our Strategic Plan. … Connect With Us
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October 01, 2020 - of each other and use clinical information systems to ensure the right care is provided to the right … Implementing new clinical evidence, such as screening recommendations or treatment guidelines, usually … Change Strategies
Establish care teams and delineate team roles for clinical and non-clinical staff … plan. … This function could be handled centrally by the practice, or each clinical team could take responsibility
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November 01, 2018 - These aims can be directed at changes in team performance ( team outcome aims ) or in clinical results … For measures that assess clinical outcomes, common data sources are patient health records or existing … You may start by doing simple counts of your target events or clinical outcomes and displaying these … Tools for Performance Measurement in Health Care: A Quick Reference Guide . … Failure to show improvement in team performance or in clinical outcomes may be due to the staff's failure
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October 01, 2016 - clinical outcomes. … well care or preventive services identified
through chart review or by the provider directly. … plan. … Matthew mentioned potentially contracting with a former or
new staff member with a clinical and IT background … The clinical team is working on a
master list of reporting requirements for each payer or program to
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January 01, 2019 - Plan B: A Practical Approach to Downtime Planning in Medical Practices
http://library.ahima.org/doc? … As
newer and more sophisticated devices have been added to the clinical environment, clinicians’
workflows … assessment-health-it-toolkit
A key to successful implementation of health IT is to recognize its impact on both clinical … implementation, and use of health IT in
ambulatory care.
6. … Toolkit for Critical Access and Small Hospitals helps these
organizations assess their readiness, plan
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July 01, 2012 - • Category C funding supports the development or expansion of provider-based care
models. … area for CMS, such as
long-term care or school-based models. … care or reduce costs? … decision support; (4) providing reports
to promote quality improvement in clinical settings and support … providers greater capacity for care
coordination (a common goal for health IT improvements) or gave
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March 01, 2017 - (For two of these eight grants, recognition or certification as a PCMH was a condition for inclusion … For example, the 10 primary care practices run by the University of Utah did not seek recognition or … Training clinical team members other than nurses and physicians to work with patients on self-management … activities was found to increase patient involvement in care. 31 Members of the clinical staff who … team and services, including new roles for MAs, care managers, and clinical pharmacists (M Magill and
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September 01, 2015 - care team
Clinical information systems and • Registries
progress toward meaningful use • Problem … Examining documents and
archival information produced as part of clinical care or various aspects of … and clinical outcome metrics
• Reports required by health plans: quality of care and clinical outcome … Removal or reduction of
barriers to better quality of
care
1 2 3 4 5 8
23. … (Fed govt., (Electronic monthly, clinical care person in on race/ ethnicity
(Summary – payer, registry
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September 08, 2015 - • Manages the individualized care plan for each youth. … The team ties the goals and strategies of the wraparound
plan to observable or measurable indicators … • Conduct CME
chart and care plan
reviews. … • Conduct chart and
care plan reviews. … Medicaid managed care for special need populations: behavioral
health as a “tracer condition.”
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April 01, 2008 - Data collection methods and the
analysis plan should be included.
Scope of project. … If the focus is on a clinical condition, patient
representatives should either have the condition or … If Yes, at which clinic or hospital did you receive care? __________________
4. … or home; with friends or family; or outside the
hospital, clinic, or other health care facility unless … Shared decision making in clinical medicine: Past
research and future directions.
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January 01, 2024 - The objective of this secondary analysis of data from two clinical trials comparing buprenorphine and … The decrease in steroids and bronchodilators was related to a clinical pathway that discouraged their … No difference was seen at either first or second follow-ups between galcanezumab and fremanezumab or … This study investigated how team cognition occurs in care transitions from operating room (OR) to intensive … ) and nurses (OR, ICU).
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January 01, 2021 - of oncology care affects the use of PCOR-based processes and related
clinical and economic outcomes … one or more hospitals and one or more
primary or multispecialty care physician practices, (2) two or … ),
• Related clinical outcomes,
• Cost of care, and
• Patient and family self-reports about the quality … factors for patients covered by a particular health plan rather than
community-level measures that … cardiovascular and
comorbid mental health conditions, as well as those with at least three Hierarchical Condition
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March 01, 2017 - clinical and cultural interventions. … improve resident safety, clinical
outcomes, and safety culture. … Clinical Interventions
Improvements in clinical care of residents begin with understanding the appropriate … clinical indications
for indwelling urinary catheter use. … or dementia
• Resident and/or family request
Use Regular Assessments
Review the clinical indications
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December 01, 2012 - collected and reported in a standard format that permits comparison of quality and data at the State, plan … Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Health Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) Health Plan … measure set, which is a widely used instrument for health plan quality measurement and improvement. … The SNAC rationale for recommending this measure is that asthma is a common chronic pediatric health condition … The measure focuses on a clinical process (documentation of tobacco use and appropriate followup) that
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February 21, 2016 - CMS plan future evaluations. … quality
measures reported regularly at the health system, health plan, or practice level rather than … - Implement policy and programmatic changes in clinical documentation procedures or
billing processes … The fact that States were not required to have comparison groups as a condition of their grant
impeded … Electronic specifications for clinical quality measures.
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December 01, 2017 - for each new change
Plan
Study
DoAct
Plan
Study
DoAct
Plan
Study
DoAct
you want to make. … q Routine check-up or screening q check current condition q identify the cause of symptoms q don … small changes to the plan … how lab results should be
communicated to patient, based on
clinical judgment. … understands/prefers.
6 MA
Determine how lab results should be
communicated to patient, based on
clinical
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January 01, 2023 - More topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan … Hospital Measurement Sets
Databases Used for Hospital Quality Measures
Measuring Health Plan … individual hospitals and hospital associations, State and regional data organizations, health planning or … Despite certain limitations (lack of clinical detail, coding variations, time lags), quality experts … Connect With Us
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May 17, 2016 - These procedures should be done by a nurse,
physician, or other health care professional who has received … specific to the age of the child, type of central line, and other patient-related factors, such
as skin condition … the preferred agent, with ampicillin an acceptable alternative.16
Educational Recommendation
• Plan … that all personnel follow the safety protocols developed by the team to prevent BSI
and develop a plan … CHCA Clinical Improvement Collaborative
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