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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK2_T1-Suggested_Agenda_for_Meeting_on_Monitoring_Final.docx
October 01, 2016 - antimicrobial stewardship program fit in with existing infection control or quality improvement (QI) efforts … 5 minutes
How will tracking efforts fit into daily and monthly workflows and task responsibilities?
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/implementation-guides/implementation-guide1/index.html
March 01, 2019 - Idaho is building an Improvement Partnership (IP), a statewide organization that will support QI efforts … initiatives and activities can bring many benefits to your State, such as:
Ensuring that your QI efforts … Increasing the transparency of QI efforts. … Expanding your capacity for current and future QI efforts. 2
Empowering community members to be involved … Improving coordination of QI efforts.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/final-report/section2.html
October 01, 2015 - States used a variety of other strategies or combinations of strategies to support QI efforts at the … Although many States halted their health IT efforts in response to challenges noted elsewhere in this … Colorado and New Mexico collaborated on efforts to enhance PCMH features of 22 SBHCs. … Two Evaluation Highlights (nos. 3 and 8) described these efforts. … We developed an implementation guide that described and built on their efforts.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-maine-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - For this
demonstration, CMS awarded 10 grants that supported
efforts in 18 States to identify effective … Following the above efforts, Maine
Medicaid and the State’s large employer coalition’s
public reporting … • Maine’s efforts to report quality measures at the State
level and share CHA information through … Continuing Efforts in Maine
After Maine’s CHIPRA quality demonstration grant ended in
February 2016, … • Continue efforts to align pediatric quality measures used by
different child-serving agencies and
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/learn-from-defects-fac-notes.html
December 01, 2017 - Use the four Learning From Defects questions to develop and sustain your improvement efforts. … Say:
Your safe surgery team will need to prioritize its efforts. … You need to know the numbers to drive your future quality efforts. … Frontline clinicians want to know if their efforts are paying off. … Instead, put your efforts into the individual factors that contribute to a system defect.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/on-boarding/overview-fac-notes.html
December 01, 2017 - With this project you can focus your attention and augment your tools with ideas to jumpstart your efforts … But for these improvement efforts to be successful, it takes much more than checking boxes. … First, they can help teams to prioritize their efforts by aligning safety team objectives with other … But aligning the safety team’s efforts with existing meetings or educational activities can reduce some … When change efforts fail, they often do for predictable reasons.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/sops101-2-brady-2018.pdf
January 01, 2018 - as a central body to galvanize
stakeholders and act as a focal point to
prioritize patient safety efforts … focusing on foundational issues such
as leadership and culture
• AHRQ’s SOPS Program aligns with these efforts
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/impactgrants/impact-profile-nm.html
April 01, 2015 - in New Mexico
AHRQ's IMPaCT grants were designed to support State-level primary care improvement efforts … New Mexico's IMPaCT grant drew on existing community-based efforts to address social determinants of … These efforts provided a new employment opportunity while also meeting the workforce needs of low-resource … Dissemination Efforts to Partner States
"We helped a lot of small practices... obtain resources they … to build, and it has invited other States, including Michigan, Utah, and Georgia, to learn from its efforts
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/engaging-physicians.pdf
April 01, 2022 - Common challenges to their
participation in these efforts often center on having very limited time to … devote to such efforts, lack of
training in quality improvement processes, and lack of knowledge of … the best, evidence-based
care and safe patient outcomes, they need support to participate fully in efforts … Conversation Starters
To engage physicians in efforts to reduce CLABSI and CAUTI through technical and
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pcor/pcortf-strategic-framework.pdf
June 01, 2023 - AHRQ coordinates its efforts closely with PCORI and OS-ASPE as well as other HHS
agencies. … Ongoing efforts in AHRQ’s Patient Safety and
Quality portfolio include enhancing diagnostic safety, … This priority area aligns with the efforts of other HHS agencies. … CDS efforts are described further
below. … These types of collaborative efforts can help promote inclusivity and
engagement to build trust with
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight01.pdf
September 30, 2015 - more generally, helped to bring
a pediatric focus to a broad range of
Federal quality measurement efforts … Practice-level
quality measures aim to help providers
target areas for QI efforts and assess the
impact … Demonstration
States made substantial efforts to involve
providers from child-serving practices
to … efforts. … Practice-
level reporting efforts could be accelerated
through the provision of technical
assistance
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_premortem.pptx
December 01, 2017 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Premortem Tool to identify risks to sustaining your efforts … premortem for sustainability focuses the safety team’s attention on the longevity of their intervention efforts … Premortem Exercise
Step 1
Imagine that you are 2 years into the future, and despite all of the team’s efforts … Surgery -- Sustainability
SAY:
Imagine that you’re 2 years into the future, and despite all of your best efforts … Two years after your safe surgery project has started, what would the worst-case scenario for your efforts
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/impact-profile-nm.pdf
April 01, 2015 - in New Mexico
AHRQ’s IMPaCT grants were designed to support State-level
primary care improvement efforts … New Mexico’s IMPaCT grant drew on existing community-based
efforts to address social determinants of … These efforts provided a new employment opportunity while also
meeting the workforce needs of low-resource … Dissemination Efforts to Partner States
The New Mexico IMPaCT project did not seek to
replicate its … to build, and it has invited other States,
including Michigan, Utah, and Georgia, to learn from its efforts
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK2_T1-Suggested_Agenda_for_Meeting_on_Monitoring_Final.pdf
October 01, 2016 - antimicrobial stewardship program fit in with existing infection control or
quality improvement (QI) efforts … How will tracking efforts fit into daily and monthly workflows and task responsibilities?
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_deep_root_data.pptx
December 01, 2017 - needed resources for your project
List barriers to incorporating SSI data into your quality improvement efforts … Develop an action plan to address barriers to sustaining the use of SSI data for quality improvement efforts … Data from your local clinical setting should drive quality improvement efforts and your sustainability … ASK:
Did your efforts make a difference?
Did you reduce surgical site infections? … When you include process measures with outcome data, it makes sense of your efforts.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/lessons/lessons-challenges-successes.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Despite measure alignment across reporting, several grantees struggled to engage
providers in QI efforts … impacted larger
patient populations or participants generally lacked the resources to engage in QI efforts … More of the key findings and the implications for measurement and improvement efforts are
presented … The latter were available in a
timelier manner to support QI efforts. … ◦ Plans may also be able to use monthly calculations on a
rolling basis to monitor QI efforts
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/webinars/previous-webinars-2016.html
June 01, 2017 - implementation of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), specific teamwork tools, and efforts … Describe specific implementation efforts focused on improving teamwork, communication, and safety culture … Present MHA’s efforts to assess intervention effectiveness. … Discuss the status of UF’s efforts and planned next steps. … Discuss how the implementation efforts were integrated into the EHR.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/co-statesum.pdf
July 01, 2015 - For this 5-year demonstration, CMS awarded 10 grants
that supported efforts in 18 States to identify … With this
support, SBHCs—
• Used quality reports to guide QI efforts. … In addition to
the efforts described above, SBHCs pursued several other
QI activities. … As a result of their efforts, the State’s
Medicaid program recognized all 11 participating SBHCs
as … Continuing Efforts in Colorado
Following the CHIPRA quality demonstration grant—
• Colorado plans to
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-oregon-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - For this demonstration,
CMS awarded 10 grants that supported efforts in 18 States
to identify effective … • Incorporated child-focused quality measures into
its health system transformation efforts. … In addition, as a result of
their efforts related to medical home transformation, the
practices reported … MHI = Medical Home Index
Continuing Efforts in Oregon
After Oregon’s CHIPRA quality demonstration grant … more information on the measures tracked in Oregon’s
Public Health and Health System Transformation efforts
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/heart-health-during-covid19.html
February 01, 2021 - So in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, AHRQ redoubled its efforts to advance heart health by synthesizing … peer-learning sessions, TAKEheart supported modifications of hospitals’ rehab services and their innovative efforts