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301. Implementation-Guide-Appendix-A (doc file)
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     January 01, 2008 - some key roles, responsibilities, and tasks often lacking in support of hospital quality improvement efforts … proposing solutions to address barriers in the hospital’s culture and infrastructure that are impeding QI efforts … Recognizes, perceives, and directly relates to the emotions of others · Shows appreciation for the efforts … some key roles, responsibilities, and tasks often lacking in support of hospital quality improvement efforts … · Communicates truthfully and does not withhold relevant information · Shows appreciation for the efforts

302. Facilitator Guide: Implementing Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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     December 01, 2017 - Often staff members are not aware of quality improvement efforts or how they can get involved. … Share stories of good catches and extra efforts; share stories about your patients. … Staff members need to know if their efforts are making a difference. … Make sure the frontline providers have visibility of these efforts. … The 4 Es model (engage, educate, execute, and evaluate) will guide your change efforts.

303. More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2019 - More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions 1 MORE EFFORT IS NEEDED TO ENSURE PATIENTS UNDERSTAND DOCTORS’ INSTRUCTIONS Did you know? Many patients leave their healthcare visit unsure of what their provider asked them to do or what was discussed. Nationwide, only 12% of adults have…

304. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - understanding of the epidemiology of MDOs, potential interventions needed to reduce these errors, and efforts … Pediatric diagnostic safety quality improvement and research efforts with well-defined patient-level

305. Medical Product Safety Network (MedSun) Collaborates with Medical Product Users to Create Specialty Subnetworks (pdf file)
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     June 04, 2008 - the actual clinical users of the medical devices, MedSun is now implementing targeted surveillance efforts … • A variety of followup efforts were implemented to learn more about certain medical device issues … All LabNet reports are reviewed by the LabNet team, followup and potential patient safety efforts are … Preliminary efforts to measure the program’s success demonstrate that for the 6-month period prior to … These efforts should generate communication and collaborative partnerships between clinicians, the FDA

306. Lessons in Safety Climate and Safety Practices from a California Hospital Consortium (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2003 - Significant hospital efforts appear to be underway, and attention to a number of lessons from past patient … safety efforts may benefit future undertakings. … Hospitals in the consortium also shared recommended practices from their efforts to respond to the results … Where program implementation efforts faltered, patient safety officers often attributed problems to … Further study of hospital efforts to improve safety culture is also needed.

307. Accelerating Progress Toward Continuous Learning: A National Academy of Medicine Meeting Summary (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2017 - One important issue is that health system leaders do not necessarily feel pressure to support efforts … Meeting participants noted that ongoing efforts to engage patients and caregivers in health care, health … Meeting participants also acknowledged ongo- ing payment reform efforts that incentivize the provision … While work is ongoing in this area, additional efforts should focus on increasing standardization of … To facilitate this integration, it is important to support efforts that aim to understand how clinicians

308. Factors Contributing to Sustainment Outcomes in Four States (pdf file)
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     August 31, 2015 - the CAHPS-PCMH to (1) ensure that it conducted a patient experience of care survey as part of its efforts … By institutionalizing several of their demonstration efforts into existing administrative functions, … Most often, grant dollars were used for development efforts around these elements, and the demonstration … to track their efforts over time – such as by documenting gains on small-denominator quality measures … Practices that have used this website have found it quite valuable for supporting QI efforts.

309. AHRQ's PCORTF Strategic Priorities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - Ongoing efforts in AHRQ’s Patient Safety and Quality portfolio include enhancing diagnostic safety , … AHRQ aims to complement those efforts by leveraging the PCORTF authorization to synthesize and implement … This priority area aligns with the efforts of other HHS agencies.

310. Research on Improving Patient Experience | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Experience Many researchers study the feasibility and value of using CAHPS surveys to support efforts … vulnerable patients and those from different racial and ethnic backgrounds view physician engagement efforts … collected through structured open-ended survey questions, can provide useful insights for supporting efforts … Understanding the relationships between primary care provider burnout and quality improvement efforts … , received frequent patient experience performance reports, felt included in QI, and experienced QI efforts

311. Improvement Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2021 - Generally, the quality improvement efforts began in February of 2018. … After implementing the quality improvement efforts, special cause variation was detected with an upward

312. Using the Core Set of Quality Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2019 - The CHIPRA quality demonstration projects highlighted in Table 1 are important examples of the many efforts … Other important efforts include: The Secretary of Health and Human Services releases an annual report … Top of Page Evaluating these Projects In the context of multiple efforts to improve measures of the

313. AHRQ Webcast Recent Insights into CAHPS Survey Modes and Response Rates - Elliott (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2013 - AHRQ Webcast Recent Insights into CAHPS Survey Modes and Response Rates - Elliott Intensive Efforts … survey setting to other young adult groups (e.g., younger patients in adult HCAHPS) 22 Intensive Efforts

314. For AHRQ in 2020, an Unforgettable Year of Daunting Challenges and Vital Accomplishments | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2021 - The Agency also maintained its commitments to address other vital areas, including efforts to end opioid … The Agency plans to award 29 research grants totaling up to $17 million in a combination of new efforts … AHRQ’s unique capabilities to collect and analyze healthcare data added significantly to the Nation’s efforts … Our collective efforts to improve the well-being of the American people come at a unique moment—an unprecedented

315. Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement Using CAHPS® Surveys: Summary of Presentations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2020 - Their efforts embed the CG-CAHPS metrics into targeted behaviors included in their training and as part … Based on prior efforts to achieve and sustain improvements, Kaiser Permanente conducted a gap analysis … As a result of these efforts, Kaiser Permanente’s scores for the HCAHPS medication communication composite … Their efforts highlight the need for experts to guide a QI team through the Lean process, assist in setting

316. AHRQ Helps Link Academic Researchers With Large Health System To Advance Understanding of Clinical Care for COVID-19 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2022 - AHRQ Director Endorses Call To Redouble Patient Safety Efforts . … AHRQ Director Endorses Call To Redouble Patient Safety Efforts AHRQ Director Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D … Healthcare Improvement (IHI) guides healthcare leaders, delivery organizations, and associations in their efforts … ET, an expert panel will discuss efforts to improve adult depression diagnosis and treatment using digital

317. 2. How will you manage change? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2013 - A useful guide is to consider how Implementation Teams for other clinical change efforts have operated … If managers are already evaluated based on their quality improvement efforts and results, making this … Among the questions to consider: Have there been prior efforts to improve fall prevention? … For example, what supported those efforts? … In what ways do rehabilitation staff and nurses coordinate their efforts to prevent falls?

318. 4. Overlap and Coordination of Federal Agency Research Portfolios in HSR and PCR | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2020 - We also sought to identify mechanisms agencies use to coordinate their research efforts. … At the same time, stakeholders acknowledged that redundancies in research efforts do occur across agencies … a leader of a consumer group, these “fuzzy boundaries” can create “sweet spots” for agency research efforts … For example, several federal research stakeholders described active complementary research efforts among … A member of the HSR TEP also described different ways agencies can coordinate their research efforts,

319. Spotlight on South Carolina -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2018 - For this demonstration, CMS awarded 10 grants that supported efforts in 18 States to identify effective … The State also created a mechanism to support the practices’ data collection efforts. … health records (EHRs) to calculate and report quality measures for practices in order to guide QI efforts … Continuing Efforts in South Carolina After South Carolina’s CHIPRA quality demonstration ended in February

320. CHIPRA - Spotlight on New Mexico (pdf file)
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     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. … Continuing Efforts in New Mexico Following the CHIPRA quality demonstration— • New Mexico will continue