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1. The Role of Leadership in Quality Improvement Efforts (pdf file)
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   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. Potentially Preventable Readmissions: Conceptual Framework To Rethink the Role of Primary Care: Final Report (pdf file)
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   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.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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?

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. EvidenceNOW Building State Capacity Profile: Alabama Cooperative (pdf file)
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    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

15. 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

16. Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

17. Research Administration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

18. The FY 2022 President’s Budget Request for AHRQ: Building Back Better | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - Similarly, I’ve been impressed by the commitment of the team at AHRQ that ensured that all of AHRQ's efforts … innovations during the COVID-19 pandemic; and $3 million in new grants to evaluate and spread health system efforts … The budget provides full funding for AHRQ’s patient safety efforts, including patient safety learning … labs and our efforts to reduce healthcare-associated infections and the emergence of antibiotic- resistant

19. AHRQ Expands Its Repertoire to Eliminate Diagnostic Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2022 - These efforts have gained momentum in recent years in critical areas. … Leading Federal efforts: In response to a 2017 Senate report, AHRQ established the Federal Interagency … Diagnostic Safety ; Diagnostic Safety Issue Briefs that examine current topics and support improvement efforts … All of AHRQ’s efforts in diagnostic safety – its lead role among Federal agencies, its research investments

20. Section 3: Are You Ready To Improve? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2020 - At the very least, recognize the impact of their absence on efforts to improve CAHPS performance and … Use measurement and management's attention to keep the organization focused on the goals of QI efforts … On the other hand, some of the strongest efforts have been those that thoroughly engaged stakeholders … Leading change: Why transformation efforts fail. Harv Bus Rev 1995;73(2):59-67. … Does publicizing hospital performance stimulate quality improvement efforts?