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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/cost/exh1.html
October 01, 2015 - Drawbacks/Challenges:
Claims data do not necessarily reflect costs of primary care transformation efforts … incurred by clinics
Changes in cost trends can be caused by factors other than PCMH transformation efforts … Pre-established rapport with clinics providing data
Web-based data collection tools for data collection efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/02-brady-sops-action-planning-tool.pdf
June 02, 2025 - as a central body to galvanize
stakeholders and act as a focal point to prioritize
patient safety efforts … such as
leadership and culture
• AHRQ’s SOPS Program and Action Planning Tool
aligns with these efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/pu1.html
October 01, 2014 - Tools and Resources
Because pressure ulcer care is complex, efforts to improve pressure … monitoring pressure ulcers increased awareness among the staff and helped them better target their efforts … , the list of resources needed is likely to be broad and will require refinement as the improvement efforts … Supporters who have a sense of urgency have been identified
Efforts are underway to generate a sense … Leadership support has been assessed
If necessary, efforts are underway to generate this support
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/pu1.html
October 01, 2014 - Tools and Resources
Because pressure ulcer care is complex, efforts to improve pressure … monitoring pressure ulcers increased awareness among the staff and helped them better target their efforts … , the list of resources needed is likely to be broad and will require refinement as the improvement efforts … Supporters who have a sense of urgency have been identified
Efforts are underway to generate a sense … Leadership support has been assessed
If necessary, efforts are underway to generate this support
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/southwest.html
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
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-measures/21st-century/index.html
June 01, 2018 - Century
From Quality Measures to Quality Care: Examples of Quality Improvement at Work
Private Sector Efforts … It demonstrates that public and private sector quality improvement efforts spawned by measurement and … The Need for a National Effort
While there have been successful efforts to improve health outcomes, … But it notes that, "despite a growing number of efforts to measure and report on health care quality, … As a result of early detection efforts, the incidence of invasive cervical cancer has decreased ( CDC
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/start.html
July 01, 2018 - Identify a practice champion
A practice champion is needed who can lead the implementation efforts. … improvement planning is the Model for Improvement. i This approach seeks to accelerate change improvement efforts … Talk with patients about the importance of engagement and the practice’s engagement efforts and reinforce … Step 6: Evaluate Implementation Effectiveness
Recognize your team’s efforts and successes
Talk about … Celebrate clinician and practice staff wins and publicly recognize efforts to improve patient safety.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/forming-cusp-team-slides.html
February 01, 2017 - Slide 6: Why Engage Across Disciplines
Successful efforts are—
Informed by science. … implement new policies and procedures to achieve quality improvement goals and sustain patient safety efforts … Learns about CUSP and the Science of Safety, developing the lenses to lead change efforts. … Helps the team to understand the organization’s strategic goals and to align their efforts with those … Staff owns safety—use unit-level data and staff inputs to drive improvement efforts.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/advances/preface.html
July 01, 2022 - this compendium is an important component of AHRQ and DoD's ongoing collaboration and our strategic efforts … The 140 articles in the 4-volume set represent the efforts of AHRQ-funded patient safety researchers … Our hope is that the information and knowledge contained in these volumes will fuel the momentum of efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/mestateataglance.pdf
March 01, 2012 - reporting and use of the initial core set of children quality measures will
build on its continuing efforts … Maine will also extend current statewide efforts to promote medical homes by enhancing access to
child‐specific … information from Maine to address a wide range of questions
about the implementation and outcomes of their efforts … To what extent were Maine’s efforts to enhance the child focus of its ongoing medical home
project
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/rittenhouse.html
October 01, 2015 - Services
Comprehensive Care
Coordinated Care
Quality & Safety
Overview of Transformation Efforts … Results of Transformation Efforts
Despite some differences between the five clinics, each showed improved … Additionally, medical school–affiliated clinics had to balance transformation efforts with their mission … declines were observed in these areas when clinics were no longer eligible for bonus payments for redesign efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-driscoll.pdf
April 01, 2015 - Institution: University of Alaska, Anchorage
AHRQ Grant Number: R18 HS019154
Overview of Transformation Efforts … Coordinated Care
• Quality & Safety
• Health Information Technology
Results of Transformation Efforts … primary-care/tpc/tpcbib.html#tpcp
http://southcentralfoundation.com/nuka/
Overview of Transformation Efforts … Results of Transformation Efforts
Key Impacts of Transformation
Challenges to Transformation
Lessons
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-pennsylvania-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - For this demonstration, CMS awarded 10
grants that supported efforts in 18 States to identify effective … information
technology experts, and administrators—in quality
measurement and information technology efforts … Continuing Efforts in Pennsylvania
After Pennsylvania’s CHIPRA quality demonstration grant ended in … • Continue efforts to improve performance on Child Core Set
measures, though health systems reported … that their efforts
would be more limited because Pennsylvania did not plan to
continue making incentive
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/implementation-guides/implementation-guide1/impguide1step5.html
March 01, 2019 - You may want to assess the impact of your group’s efforts by obtaining feedback not only from those who … Programmatic or policy changes resulting from the group’s efforts. … Reduction in the redundancy of QI efforts. … You need a plan to make sure stakeholders and others who may have been impacted by the group’s efforts … Responding to the stakeholders’ feedback and providing more clarity will help improve the efforts of
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/co-spotlight.html
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. … As a result of their efforts, the State’s Medicaid program recognized all 11 participating SBHCs as medical … Continuing Efforts in Colorado
Following the CHIPRA quality demonstration grant—
Colorado plans
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/caren-ginsberg-slides-6-11.pdf
June 02, 2025 - as a central body to galvanize
stakeholders and act as a focal point to prioritize
patient safety efforts … focusing on foundational issues such as
leadership and culture
• AHRQ’s SOPS Program aligns with these efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-maine-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - For this
demonstration, CMS awarded 10 grants that supported
efforts in 18 States to identify effective … Following the above efforts, Maine
Medicaid and the State’s large employer coalition’s
public reporting … • Maine’s efforts to report quality measures at the State
level and share CHA information through … Continuing Efforts in Maine
After Maine’s CHIPRA quality demonstration grant ended in
February 2016, … • Continue efforts to align pediatric quality measures used by
different child-serving agencies and
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/46-facilitators-barriers.docx
June 01, 2023 - Discuss how to prioritize your efforts and generate action plans to sustain the improvements you have … made through your enhanced recovery efforts. … collaboratively manage the implementation process—prompting changes in the organizational culture to support efforts … as influencers across the organization, including who will lead or co-lead ongoing enhanced recovery efforts … Actions To Remove or Mitigate
Enter Name of Person Responsible for Action
Providers' belief that efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201701.html
March 01, 2017 - between the hospital and iCareQuality, a Pennsylvania-based health care consulting company that supports efforts … Although Meadowlands began using CUSP in 2013, ongoing improvement and sustainability efforts were challenging … "We wanted to sustain quality improvement efforts at the bedside.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-pediatric-safety-5.html
August 01, 2023 - Because diagnostic efforts cannot be extricated from the systems, circumstances, and environments within … For example, efforts to identify patients with diagnostic uncertainty and provide clinician feedback … Active efforts must be made to include diagnosis-focused clinical and health services research in the … They also support efforts to expand the pediatric diagnostic safety research and quality improvement … Increased pediatric advocacy efforts and research funding focused on diagnostic safety are also needed