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141. Making It Work Tip Sheet: Engaging Senior Leaders in Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/engaging-senior-leaders.pdf
     April 01, 2022 - directly recognize the value of patient safety or more specifically your patient safety program’s efforts … Make it meaningful so they recognize the importance of your efforts and provide buy-in and support. … As you communicate the plan to improve CLABSI and CAUTI reduction efforts to the team, intentionally … Ensure that the senior leader knows of their efforts in order to show gratitude for their role. … Conversation Starters To engage a senior leader in efforts to reduce CLABSI and CAUTI, gather all the

142. EvidenceNOW Building State Capacity Profile: Alabama Cooperative (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/EvidenceNOW-BSC-AL-profile.pdf
     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

143. A Practical Guide for Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.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

144. A Practical Guide for Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/cost/guide.html
     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

145. Tip Sheet: Improving Response Rates on the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/sopstipsheet.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Highlight the benefits or changes that resulted from previous survey efforts. … • Track survey response by department throughout data collection and focus promotion efforts where … Engage staff in action planning efforts to improve patient safety culture within their departments and … If one department has a very high response rate, it will encourage the others to step up their efforts

146. How the CHIPRA quality demonstration elevated children on State health policy agendas | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight04.html
     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

147. Designing a Scorecard for Sustainability: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/scorecard-fac-notes.html
     December 01, 2017 - Improvements Say: The module covers how to design a scorecard for sustaining your surgical improvement efforts … implementation, describe how to design a scorecard to measure performance as a part of your sustainability efforts … training, the Science of Safety training is the premier component of staff exposure to your team’s work efforts … Use the safety culture improvements to validate the work efforts of your frontline staff.

148. Evaluating the Results of a Quality Reporting Project | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/assess/what-you-evaluate/results.html
     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?

149. Engaging Stakeholders to Improve the Quality of Children’s Health Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.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.

150. Transformed Primary Care: Care by Design™ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/magill.html
     October 01, 2015 - Coordinated Care Health Information Technology Quality & Safety Overview of Transformation Efforts … Implementation efforts within each clinic were led by a two-person team, including a medical director … Results of Transformation Efforts The level of implementation was assessed using an internally developed … The differences in scores reflect that the main focus of implementation efforts was on care teams, and … these efforts as an organizational priority.

151. Develop and Improve Antibiotic Stewardship Activities in Your Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/improve/index.html
     October 01, 2022 - For information on how the materials below can be integrated into your practice’s efforts to improve … titled “Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Your Practice” and “Sustaining Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts … Communication Between Members of the Practice Around Antibiotic Decisions Sustaining Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts

152. Conclusion and Future Directions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/backgroundrpt/conclusion.html
     April 01, 2017 - Future efforts can provide useful information and tools for using APCD in health care measurement. … Aside from measure analyses, the continued efforts to improve documentation will provide a record of … Benchmarking efforts will provide more context for data users and valuable public data. … With ongoing efforts, APCDs remain the most comprehensive source of data for monitoring population health

153. AHRQ Expands Its Repertoire to Eliminate Diagnostic Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/eliminate-diagnostic-errors.html
     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

154. Sustainability | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/sustainability.html
     April 01, 2025 - In your planning, you should ask yourself: How do you keep your efforts and progress going? … assess your development and to recognize successes and shortfalls enables you to adjust and improve your efforts

155. State at a Glance: Illinois | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/il.html
     March 01, 2019 - The State also will aim to ensure that ongoing health information exchange (HIE) and other health IT efforts … Health Care Quality Illinois will collaborate with ongoing, statewide HIE and health IT development efforts … to ensure that those efforts address children's health issues and support electronic health records … information from Illinois to address a wide range of questions about the implementation and outcomes of their efforts … To what extent were Illinois's efforts to promote adoption of the medical home successful and did they

156. Key Themes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/key-themes.html
     March 01, 2017 - 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

157. Key Themes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/themes.html
     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

158. How the CHIPRA quality demonstration elevated children on State health policy agendas (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight04.pdf
     September 08, 2015 - 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 … Some demonstration States also chose to link their efforts to existing health IT initiatives funded … These efforts can help broaden support for demonstration activities, as well as provide a mechanism

159. Webinar 1: Introduction & Overview: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/guide/web1.html
     December 01, 2017 - ASPIRE framework is intended to support a data-informed, strategic redesign of readmission reduction efforts … Slide 4: AHRQ Reducing Medicaid Readmissions Project Readmission reduction efforts to date have … Survey Your Current Readmission Reduction Efforts. … S urvey Your Current Readmission Reduction Efforts. … Employ a data-informed approach to designing efforts.

160. A Multipayer Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative in Pennsylvania (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-gabbay.pdf
     April 01, 2015 - University Hershey Medical Center AHRQ Grant Number: R18 HS019150 Overview of Transformation Efforts … Health Information Technology • Patient-Centered Care • Quality & Safety Results of Transformation Efforts … Differences in transformation efforts were assessed by ranking the practices based on their improvement … medical assistants and nurse care managers), EHR systems, time for education and quality improvement efforts … No. 15-00389-9-EF April 2015 Overview of Transformation Efforts Results of Transformation Efforts