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1. The Role of Leadership in Quality Improvement Efforts (pdf file)
   cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/podcasts/Role_of_Leadership_In_QI-_2011_11_01.pdf
   January 01, 2011 - Efforts November 2011  Podcast Speaker Dr. … Gregg is here with us today to discuss the role of leadership in improvement efforts. … So Gregg, how important is leadership in quality improvement efforts? … In the end, we want our quality improvement efforts to be driven from the ground up. … So how best can leaders support those efforts of the front line?

2. Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce Potentially Preventable Readmissions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2023 - Safety Patient Safety Resources by Setting Ambulatory Care Primary Care-Based Efforts … News and Events Education & Training Resources Primary Care-Based Efforts … Environmental Scan of Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce Readmissions  reviews the evidence-based literature … Information on AHRQ's other primary care efforts is available at Center for Excellence in Primary Care … December 2023 Page originally created March 2019 Internet Citation: Primary Care-Based Efforts

3. AHRQ Accelerates Efforts To Advance Health Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2024 - Home News Newsletter AHRQ News Now AHRQ Accelerates Efforts … Today's Headlines: AHRQ Accelerates Efforts To Advance Health Equity . … AHRQ Accelerates Efforts To Advance Health Equity During Minority Health Month, AHRQ is highlighting … To increase well-being among all Americans, the agency has accelerated efforts to reduce inequities and … AHRQ’s efforts have been informed by the Biden–Harris Administration’s commitment to advancing equity

4. AHRQ Efforts To Address Long COVID | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2024 - Research Grant Awards Publications and Resources What's New AHRQ Efforts … To Address Long COVID AHRQ is leading multiple efforts to better understand Long COVID and support … discussions were designed to drive Senator Kaine's work (PDF, 150 KB) in the Senate and to further AHRQ’s efforts … Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS') efforts to address Long COVID, involving patients, caregivers … last reviewed March 2024 Page originally created March 2023 Internet Citation: AHRQ Efforts

5. Choosing and Involving Partners in Promoting a Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   July 01, 2011 - increasing number of States and communities, reporting projects are being carried out through collaborative efforts … sure to recruit at least some organizations that are in a good position to support your promotional efforts … Potential Partners For the purposes of enhancing your promotional efforts, possible partners include … organization more willing and able to develop a sustained and sustainable partnership with your reporting efforts … As your reporting efforts mature and address more audiences, more health care entities, or more specific

6. AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2015 - The profiles include an overview of the efforts to spread primary care transformation within the model … State, efforts to disseminate the model in partner States, the main lessons learned from these efforts … State successfully helped to support implementation and dissemination of primary care transformation efforts

7. AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)
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   July 22, 2015 - with other ongoing efforts. … facilitators, population and community health efforts, intersection with State PCMH efforts, and products … In North Carolina, formal efforts to align statewide primary care improvement efforts began in 2006 … These efforts are described in this section. … Extension efforts require coordination.

8. Potentially Preventable Readmissions: Conceptual Framework To Rethink the Role of Primary Care: Final Report (pdf file)
   cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/rev-finalreport-update-2021.pdf
   January 01, 2021 - For the past decade, payer and provider efforts to reduce readmissions have proliferated. … It is possible that broader PCMH-guided transformation efforts may provide an anchor for effectively … Similarly, care transition efforts may synergize with more general efforts aimed at promoting continuity … Several articles examined in the section about readmission reduction efforts led by payers show the … Promising practices and efforts in smaller, independent practices.

9. AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Survey Integral to MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Quality Efforts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2014 - AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Survey Integral to MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Quality Efforts … AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Survey Integral to MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Quality Efforts … The first survey in 2010 established a baseline for the hospital's quality improvement efforts. … Citation: AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Survey Integral to MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Quality Efforts

10. Using Person-to-Person Outreach Strategies for Quality Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    cahps.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/promote/multiple/outreach.html
    September 01, 2019 - To reach those people in your audience, you may want to add a personal dimension to your promotional efforts … them for feedback about how people they touch are responding to your report and to your promotional efforts … groups have little in the way of financial resources, although they have priceless assets for your efforts … Learn more about Choosing and Involving Partners in promotional efforts.

11. Evaluating the Results of a Quality Reporting Project | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - extent that report sponsors can demonstrate and document that they are making a difference—that their efforts … The Purpose of a Summative Evaluation Evaluators refer to efforts to judge the worth and value of a … Would it be a good return on investment to expand your efforts (and your budget)? … Did it guide or intensify their quality improvement efforts? With what results? … How has this effort affected the direction and support for future reporting efforts?

12. AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer Reports: Shaping Patient Safety Efforts in the 21st Century | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Research Studies AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer Reports: Shaping Patient Safety Efforts … These reports provide information the field needs to evaluate how to prioritize efforts to keep patients … 2020 Internet Citation: AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer Reports: Shaping Patient Safety Efforts

13. Tips and Suggestions for Enhancing Organizational Readiness | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2016 - In some cases you may be able to work with leaders to identify whether any of the other change efforts … Research has shown that participation in change efforts is related to subsequent success (Lines, 2004 … What is the purpose of those efforts and how might a TeamSTEPPS tool or process support that purpose? … Sometimes leaders don't sponsor efforts effectively because they don't know what they need to do. … A study of change efforts in 225 organizational change efforts showed that leader commitment is closely

14. Final Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2016 - Final Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 December 2016 Saving Lives and … Saving Money: Hospital-Acquired Conditions Update Final Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer … technical assistance offered by the QIO program to hospitals, and technical assistance and catalytic efforts … sustaining further improvements in the safety of hospital care, the Agency has substantially expanded its efforts

15. Timing Promotion of a Quality Report for Maximum Impact | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2016 - Before Your Report Is Issued Some sponsors start spreading the word about their efforts very early … You can even share stories from efforts in other communities about how a similar report was of value. … predict when your report will be most relevant and useful for specific individuals, your promotional efforts … An important aspect of your longer term promotional efforts is to balance constant repetition of a few … Learn how to evaluate your reporting efforts, including your promotional campaign, in Assess Your Reporting

16. EvidenceNOW Building State Capacity Profile: Alabama Cooperative (pdf file)
    cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/EvidenceNOW-BSC-AL-profile.pdf
    September 01, 2021 - The project seeks to coordinate cardiovascular risk reduction efforts across the state to create efficiency … , synergy and reduce duplicative efforts, with a particular focus on Alabama’s most underserved areas … changes in hypertension control and rates of tobacco screening and counseling/referral for cessation efforts … things that excites me most about this project is that it provides an opportunity to leverage ongoing efforts

17. Findings From the AHRQ Transforming Primary Care Grant Initiative: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)
    cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-synthesis-report.pdf
    July 22, 2015 - The transformation efforts studied by the TPC grants varied considerably in terms of the size, type, … Contextual factors play an important role in the success of transformation efforts. … Our team also described key outcomes of the primary care transformation efforts across the studies, … Approaches to Transformation The practice transformation efforts studied by the TPC investigators … Practices also used plan-do-study-act (or plan-do- check-act) cycles for quality improvement efforts.

18. North Carolina’s CaroMont Regional Medical Center Uses AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce Urinary Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2018 - "After focused efforts in 2010, CAUTIs dropped to 31 events in 96,299 patient days and rose slightly … the CAUTI rate and the catheter utilization rate have seen a steady decline since focused improvement efforts … updates for about a year to management staff about their unit's catheter use to support CAUTI prevention efforts … Efforts are also made to raise general awareness about the need to remove catheters as soon as possible … All the team efforts to improve patient safety—the daily rounding, emails, huddles, nurse-driven protocol

19. Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    cahps.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/index.html
    September 01, 2015 - the field: Short profiles summarizing each project, including an overview of the transformation efforts … that were studied, summaries of the key impacts and challenges of those efforts, and the main lessons … the 14 grants, and a joint article about the importance of context in primary care transformation efforts … worked together to build a support system to assist primary care practices with their transformation efforts … The following materials have been developed to describe these efforts: Short profiles summarizing

20. Research Administration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/administration.html
    March 01, 2021 - recruiting and retaining practices, along with samples of the resources they developed and used in their efforts … researchers from ESCALATES (the EvidenceNOW national evaluation) examined cooperatives’ recruitment efforts … are also necessary.” ( Sweeney et al., 2018 ) To support future primary care researchers in their efforts … practices, the EvidenceNOW cooperatives have shared several examples of resources they used in their efforts