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21. Vanquishing Healthcare Disparities by Advancing Healthcare Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2023 - inequities embedded in today’s healthcare delivery systems, and the Agency is committed to expanding its efforts … Among the papers’ notable themes: Patients and communities must be centered in all efforts to advance … worked with stakeholders to explore these issues and formulate recommendations, AHRQ has continued its efforts … These recent efforts dovetail with recommendations in the HSR special issue and take into account important

22. TAKEHeart | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Beyond TAKEheart Learn about other efforts focused on increasing CR participation … These documents describe lessons learned, key findings, and recommendations for future similar efforts … Workgroup Evaluation Slide Presentation Beyond TAKEheart Learn about other efforts

23. A Call for Action to Achieve Health Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2021 - However, while we marvel at the development of vaccines and the tireless efforts of healthcare workers … this problem, even as it presents an unprecedented opportunity to build on and expand the Agency’s efforts … Only through such actions, improved integrations, and coordinated efforts across health and human services

24. Improving Patient Experience | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - The Role of Leadership in Improvement Efforts  ( 13:31 ). … Center for Quality and Safety, discusses the importance of leadership to support quality improvement efforts … The Role of Human Resources Staff in Improvement Efforts (Presentation)  ( 18:33 ). … Melinda Karp, formerly a Director of Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), discusses efforts

25. AHRQ and Health Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2024 - implicit bias embedded in today’s healthcare delivery systems and has been committed to expanding its efforts … AHRQ’s efforts have also been informed by the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to advancing equity

26. Learning Health System Competencies: Training the Next Generation of Researchers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2021 - core competencies for LHS researchers and address the unique training needs of investigators leading efforts … development program is to train clinical and research scientists to have the skills to support and lead efforts … foundational HSR and PCOR competencies and address the unique training needs of researchers leading efforts

27. Office of Management Services (OMS) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2021 - sustainability and the Agency's conference-approval process, and oversees implementation of Agency-wide efforts … Performance and Results Act activities and Program Integrity activities; and coordinates the Agency's efforts … division is also a key stakeholder and contributor to ongoing Agency system and application development efforts

28. EvidenceNOW: Southwest Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - practice assessment to determine the practice's culture, recent, or ongoing practice transformation efforts … materials Additional coaching to incorporate patient engagement activities into practice transformation efforts … patient and family advisory councils and other activities, to ensure that practices' quality improvement efforts … The qualitative data collection efforts are robust and involve practice facilitator field notes, a quarterly … Community Health [Annual Family Medicine Weekend, U of Oregon Health Services Center, 2016] Collective Efforts

29. 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

30. Section 2: Why Improve Patient Experience? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2020 - Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process Section 5: Determining Where To Focus Efforts … Examples of prominent forces driving improvement efforts among health plans include the following: … Examples of forces driving improvement efforts among medical groups and physician practices include … included the measurement, reporting, and improvement of patient experience with primary care in their efforts … AF4Q program concluded in 2015, many of these collaborative organizations are continuing their survey efforts

31. Practice Facilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2023 - curated collection of more than 100 tools and resources that can help primary care practices in their efforts … help primary care practices use electronic health records and other health IT for quality improvement efforts

32. Section 3: Are You Ready To Improve? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2020 - Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process Section 5: Determining Where To Focus Efforts … 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 … Leading change: Why transformation efforts fail. Harv Bus Rev 1995;73(2):59-67. … Does publicizing hospital performance stimulate quality improvement efforts?

33. With TeamSTEPPS 3.0, AHRQ Refreshes a Landmark Patient Safety Training Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - safety training program that supports AHRQ’s mission and its central role in the Nation’s expanding efforts … In 2023, AHRQ’s efforts to advance patient safety remain robust and wide-ranging, including recent research … new TeamSTEPPS 3.0 as an important resource that can help support our colleagues in their critical efforts

34. AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Supporting people's efforts to improve their health. … Tool 1: Form a Team provides guidance on developing a team to lead your health literacy efforts. … Improvement Plan will guide you in assessing your practice and identifying focus areas for your improvement efforts

35. 1. Are you ready for this change? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - Efforts to improve fall prevention require a system approach that achieves organizational change through … Consider framing your efforts in line with broader initiatives, such as the Institute for Healthcare … Reach out beyond those who already support efforts to strengthen fall prevention. … The influence of top management, board, and physician leadership on hospital quality improvement efforts … Promoting clinical involvement in hospital quality improvement efforts: the effects of top management

36. 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

37. Addressing Historical Racism and Inequality in American Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2021 - Supporting efforts across the Department of Health and Human Services to appropriately collect sociodemographic … We undertake these efforts with sincere humility. … We recognize that these efforts are as difficult as they are important.

38. Findings From the AHRQ Transforming Primary Care Grant Initiative: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)
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    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.

39. Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs: Lessons Learned From Leading Models of Practice Facilitation (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - FACALITATION Practice facilitation (PF) is one way to support medical practices in their ongoing efforts … As practices are encouraged by purchasers to focus on quality and to pursue efforts such as patient-centered … EMRs are an integral part of high-functioning primary care practices, yet EMR implementation efforts … To increase their effectiveness, PF programs should incorporate EMR efforts into their work. … For example, the NC Practice Support program organizes its facilitation efforts via teams of staff with

40. Deep-Rooting Your Data: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - List barriers to incorporating SSI data into your 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. … Data that clinicians find meaningful will drive your quality improvement efforts.