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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/nh/index.html
August 01, 2023 - CAHPS Nursing Home Surveys
The development of these instruments was jointly supported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Resident Surveys
The CAHPS Nursing Home Surveys include two separate instruments for nursing home residents: one for those…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/publications/pubcomguide/Form-Use-Previously-Recorded-Audiovisual%20Materials.docx
July 01, 2024 - AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines
Release Form for Use of Previously Recorded Audiovisual Materials, Including Photographs
Instructions
This release is required for use of still and video stock footage, music, graphics, and photographs owned by a specific person or company. Licenses must provide AHRQ, not …
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www.ahrq.gov/priority-populations/publications/index.html
February 01, 2025 - Publications About Priority Populations
External Research Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) . Children/Adolescent Health Health and Economic Outcomes of Newborn Screening for Infantile-onset Pompe Disease . Development and evaluation of a remote training strategy for the implementation of mental health …
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/multiple/project-echo/index.html
December 01, 2023 - Project ECHO
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), developed by Sanjeev Arora, M.D. , at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, is a collaborative model of medical education and care management that helps clinicians provide expert-level care to patients wherever they live. U…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/dental/about/Development-of-the-Dental-Plan-Survey.html
April 01, 2020 - Development of the Dental Plan Survey
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) and TRICARE—the Department of Defense's health plan for military personnel and their dependents—developed this survey independent of the CAHPS Consortium. However, the two organizations conducted the development process with the sa…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/reports-and-case-studies/Report_ICH-QI-Project.html
March 01, 2016 - Improving the Quality of In-Center Hemodialysis Care
From the inception of this project, CMS and AHRQ intended for the In-Center Hemodialysis Survey to serve facilities and networks as a tool for quality improvement. To that end, the CAHPS grantees organized an initiative to assess the survey’s value in helpin…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/survey-measures.html
March 01, 2017 - CAHPS Cancer Care Survey Measures
For more information: Patient Experience Measures from the CAHPS ® Cancer Care Survey (PDF, 325 KB)
Getting Timely Appointments, Care, and Information
Q14 Patient got appointment for urgent care as soon as needed
Q16 Patient got appointment for non-urgent care …
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/consumer-reporting/guidelines/attention/index.html
March 01, 2016 - Capturing Consumers' Attention
Health care consumers are often unaware of public reporting efforts or uninterested in using the information that survey sponsors provide. Research conducted by the CAHPS team suggests some strategies to capture the attention of consumers.
To learn more, go to Promote Your Repo…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/interventions/teachback.html
June 01, 2023 - Teach-Back: Intervention
Patient and Family Engagement in Primary Care
Teach-back is a technique for health care providers to ensure that they have explained medical information clearly so that patients and their families understand what is communicated to them. This intervention includes several materials to…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/databases/hospital/2024-hospital-database-report-summary.pdf
January 01, 2024 - 2024 SOPS Hospital Database Report Executive Summary Overview Infographic
Findings from the 2024 Hospital 2.0 Database
445
Participating Hospitals
284,036
Provider and Staff
Respondents
52%
Average Response Rate
Across Hospitals
Highest Scoring Composite Measures
Teamwork 81% of respondents reported th…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/databases/nursing-home/2025-nursing-home-database-report-summary.pdf
January 01, 2025 - 2025 SOPS Nursing Home Database Report Executive Summary Overview Infographic
Surveys on Patient Safety Culture®
Findings From the 2025 SOPS Nursing Home Survey Database
107
Participating
Nursing Homes
4,411
Nursing Home Staff
Respondents
63%
Composite Measure
Average
Highest Scoring Composite Meas…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/surgecapacitytool.html
May 01, 2020 - Northeastern University Hospital Surge Capacity Planning Model: Bed, Ventilator, and PPE 1-30 Day Demand
Note: AHRQ has not evaluated or validated this resource. In the overview, the developer describes the testing that has been conducted to date .
The COVID pandemic is placing enormous surge demand and…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/en-bsc-interim-report-1.pdf
January 31, 2024 - You tend to sell ideas when you communicate emotions, most of the meetings were
Zoom meetings. … explained how their inexperience with research grants required additional work to
ensure they could communicate … And what does that
really look like and ensuring that I communicate that well with our members so that
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/interventions/medmanage-slides.html
May 01, 2017 - Medication Management
Patient and Family Engagement in Primary Care
Slide 1: Medication Management
AHRQ Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families
Slide 2: Speaker
Kelly Smith, PhD
Scientific Director, Quality & Safety
Co-PI, AHRQ Guide to Improve …
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/northwest.html
March 01, 2021 - EvidenceNOW: Northwest Cooperative
EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to transform health care delivery by building a critical infrastructure to help smaller primary care practices improve the heart health of their patie…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/overview-cuspmvp-slides.html
February 01, 2017 - Overview of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program for Application to Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Slide Presentation
AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
Slide 1: AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
Overview of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-wyoming-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - Spotlight on Wyoming -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program
January 2018
This brief highlights the major strategies, lessons learned,
and outcomes from Wyoming’s experience from February
2010 to February 2016 with the quality demonstration
funded by the Centers for Medicare &…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/problem-solving/problem-solving-facnotes.docx
May 01, 2017 - Module 3: Script and Slides
AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery
Management Practices for Sustainability
Module 3: Problem Solving and Escalation
AHRQ Safety Program for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals
Facilitator Notes
SLIDE 1
Title: Management Practices for Sustainability, Module 3: Problem Solving and Escalati…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/problem-solving-fac-notes.html
June 01, 2017 - Module 3: Problem Solving and Escalation - Facilitator Notes
Slide 1: Management Practices for Sustainability Module 3: Problem Solving and Escalation
Say:
In this module, we will focus on two elements in the frontline management system that we have outlined—having well-understood problem-solving and prob…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/engaging-staff.pdf
April 01, 2022 - Making It Work Tip Sheet: Engaging Staff Beyond the CUSP Team
AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units:
Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI
Making It Work Tip Sheet
Engaging Staff Beyond the CUSP Team
This “Making It Work” tip sheet provides additional information to help intensive care unit (ICU) team
le…