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61. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)
    ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module5/engagemt-checklist.docx
    March 01, 2017 - medical director, etc.) and any staff who provide care or services can use this tool to guide their efforts … Review each task to plan, implement, and enhance resident engagement efforts. … to this list any activities already underway to support engagement of residents and family in safety efforts … Engage Residents and Family Responsible Party Notes Assign a leader to oversee the facility’s efforts … Focus on safety efforts, behaviors, and skills.

62. 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

63. Prologue -- Blueprints for Action (pdf file)
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    January 01, 1999 - Micro-level efforts often reflect small team sweat equity in focused point-of-service initiatives. … Other papers incorporate low-technology efforts, including important survey efforts directed at ascertaining … The approaches detailed here are meaningful efforts geared to today's health care settings; settings … The authors of these efforts are clearly dedicated to making a difference. … In summary, what might one make of all the efforts that are represented in this volume?

64. Using Person-to-Person Outreach Strategies for Quality Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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.

65. What are the results of your efforts to prevent CAUTI? Collect outcome data monthly to find out! | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Reduce CAUTI in LTC Facilities Toolkit Sections What are the results of your efforts … Telemedicine Universal ICU Decolonization Protocol What are the results of your efforts … Page originally created March 2017 Internet Citation: What are the results of your efforts

66. Building State Capacity Preliminary Findings  | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - challenges that grantees faced in setting up these cooperatives during the COVID-19 pandemic; their efforts … establishing cooperatives and recruiting primary care practices to participate in care improvement efforts … early and ongoing engagement with payers to ensure alignment of incentives with quality improvement efforts … The final evaluation report will examine the impacts of these efforts on improving heart health and reducing

67. State at a Glance: Maryland | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2019 - challenges who are enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP and to support its partner States in their individual efforts … Maryland's activities continue to be integrated into the State's ongoing system of care transformation efforts … information from Maryland to address a wide range of questions about the implementation and outcomes of their efforts … including: How did the multi-State learning collaborative enhance Maryland's efforts to expand its … To what extent did Maryland's efforts to expand the CME model improve outcomes for youth with serious

68. 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?

69. Designing & Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care The Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions Webinar 3
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    December 01, 2014 - Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions Webinar 3: Review & Update Readmission Reduction Efforts … Agenda Describe the purpose of conducting an inventory of efforts and resources relevant to reducing … I don’t know how that is coming.…” Inventory Hospital-Based Efforts & Resources Readmission reduction … activities have proliferated over time Some efforts may have developed in isolation from one another … “You don’t understand, there are just no resources in the community” Inventory Community Efforts

70. New Mexico IMPaCT: Catalyzing Community Health Transformation in Kansas (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2015 - other States to share the models they developed and to support those States in launching improvement efforts … leveraged insights from the IMPaCT partnership into new cross-university collaboration and ongoing efforts … • Improving community health through efforts to enhance the built environment, provide information … , including efforts encouraging the adoption of patient-centered medical homes and electronic health … to incorporate health programming into cooperative extension efforts, such as improving chronic disease

71. 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

72. 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

73. Qi-Tip-Sheet-Primary-Care-Practices (pdf file)
    ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/qi-tip-sheet-primary-care-practices.pdf
    March 01, 2015 - A practice’s QI efforts are an important component of efforts to improve the quality of the health care … • A facilitator can tailor QI efforts to your practice and help implement them. … *We use the phrases “QI initiatives,” “QI activities,” and “QI efforts” here to refer broadly to both … specific QI initiatives and broader efforts undertaken toward practice redesign and transformation. … QI efforts can help physicians get back to practicing medicine like they had originally intended—to

74. Key Themes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2015 - or another group) was a useful marker of progress in the process and helped motivate transformation efforts … For the more advanced practices, these efforts often began before the concept of PCMH was fully developed … Contextual Factors Play an Important Role in the Success of Transformation Efforts As discussed by … To support transformation efforts, organizational leaders also needed to communicate effectively with … As one investigator explained, “quality improvement efforts would stop if the one person who championed

75. How the CHIPRA quality demonstration elevated children on State health policy agendas | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2013 - Key messages from these States include: States have aligned their efforts with—and used their CHIPRA … to integrate behavioral and physical health, and 4) quality measurement and improvement efforts. … Findings Participating States employed a range of strategies in their efforts to maximize the impact … These efforts can help broaden support for demonstration activities, as well as provide a mechanism for … However, the common thread running throughout these efforts is represented by the new connections being

76. A Practical Guide for Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2015 - in health care organizations who want to predict or report the costs of primary care transformation efforts … Develop a Detailed Description of Study Setting and Transformation Efforts An important first step … Primary care transformation efforts can take a number of years to implement and are an ongoing process … In addition, detailed descriptions of study settings, practice change efforts, and what is included in … are those that are clearly attributable to these efforts, such as staff training on the PCMH or new

77. A Practical Guide for Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/cost-guide/practical-guide.html
    February 01, 2017 - in health care organizations who want to predict or report the costs of primary care transformation efforts … Develop a Detailed Description of Study Setting and Transformation Efforts An important first step … Primary care transformation efforts can take a number of years to implement and are an ongoing process … In addition, detailed descriptions of study settings, practice change efforts, and what is included in … are those that are clearly attributable to these efforts, such as staff training on the PCMH or new

78. Primary Care Extension in Oklahoma: An Evidence-Based Approach to Dissemination and Implementation of Innovations (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2015 - The use of CHIOs to assist with primary care transformation efforts was promoted at a statewide conference … County-based efforts catalyzed group quality improvement among local physicians and brought diverse … County-based efforts were more successful when they helped to focus assistance on locally identified … So far, however, there has been little communication and coordination between these efforts. … The Missouri team made an early decision to focus the IMPaCT project efforts on Pettis County, where

79. Get Ready | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/implementation-guide/get-ready.html
    September 01, 2017 - If no, and a sense of urgency is lacking, has your hospital begun efforts to show stakeholders that falls … are a significant safety concern for many reasons and that prevention efforts are needed?   … If leadership support for fall prevention is lacking, has your hospital begun efforts to generate it? … to continue to measure monthly or at a minimum, quarterly, throughout your improvement efforts?   … If no, will you be able to measure two process measures monthly throughout your improvement efforts?

80. Transforming Primary Care Practice in North Carolina (pdf file)
    ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-donahue.pdf
    April 01, 2015 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill AHRQ Grant Number: R18 HS019131 Overview of Transformation Efforts … Information Technology • Patient-Centered Care • Quality & Safety Results of Transformation Efforts … Staff turnover was another challenge for practice transformation efforts, particularly for the smaller … practices, where the loss of one team member could mean the loss of the person leading QI efforts. … Results of Transformation Efforts Number and Type of Practices Location Transformational Elements