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321. AHRQ Announces New Challenge Competition to Highlight the Impact of its Patient Safety Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/new-challenge-patient-safety-tools.html
     June 01, 2023 - new Challenge to gain a deeper understanding about how its tools are being used and to inform future efforts … to advance safety improvement efforts.

322. Section 3: Are You Ready To Improve? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/3-are-you-ready/index.html
     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?

323. Health Literacy Improvement Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/index.html
     March 01, 2024 - CAHPS Health Literacy Item Sets The CAHPS Health Literacy Item Sets ask about providers' efforts … Supplemental health literacy items to assist in efforts to improve organizational are available for the

324. Evaluating and Sustaining Progress | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/progress.html
     October 01, 2024 - 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

325. Listening to the Voice of the Patient: Using Multiple Feedback Methods to Complement CAHPS Survey Data webcast-PANEL (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/03-listening-voice-of-patient-webcast-panel.pdf
     June 03, 2024 - Real-time insight and feedback to identify areas of opportunities and set up process improvement plans/efforts … that will help us improve customer experience  By centralizing our efforts and data, we can streamline

326. CUSP Helps University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201413.html
     August 01, 2014 - "CUSP helped us to have a systematic approach for all our efforts," says Nasia Safdar, M.D., UWHC's infection … After implementing CUSP, the hospital's infection prevention efforts became "much more standardized and … Similar efforts were conducted on the VAP unit.

327. HERO: New Mexico's Health Extension as a Model for Primary Care Transformation (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/impact-profile-nm.pdf
     April 01, 2015 - in New Mexico AHRQ’s IMPaCT grants were designed to support State-level primary care improvement efforts … New Mexico’s IMPaCT grant drew on existing community-based efforts to address social determinants of … These efforts provided a new employment opportunity while also meeting the workforce needs of low-resource … Dissemination Efforts to Partner States The New Mexico IMPaCT project did not seek to replicate its … to build, and it has invited other States, including Michigan, Utah, and Georgia, to learn from its efforts

328. PowerPoint Presentation: Premortem for Sustainability
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_premortem.pptx
     December 01, 2017 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Premortem Tool to identify risks to sustaining your efforts … premortem for sustainability focuses the safety team’s attention on the longevity of their intervention efforts … Premortem Exercise Step 1 Imagine that you are 2 years into the future, and despite all of the team’s efforts … Surgery -- Sustainability SAY: Imagine that you’re 2 years into the future, and despite all of your best efforts … Two years after your safe surgery project has started, what would the worst-case scenario for your efforts

329. HERO: New Mexico’s Health Extension as a Model for Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/impactgrants/impact-profile-nm.html
     April 01, 2015 - in New Mexico AHRQ's IMPaCT grants were designed to support State-level primary care improvement efforts … New Mexico's IMPaCT grant drew on existing community-based efforts to address social determinants of … These efforts provided a new employment opportunity while also meeting the workforce needs of low-resource … Dissemination Efforts to Partner States "We helped a lot of small practices... obtain resources they … to build, and it has invited other States, including Michigan, Utah, and Georgia, to learn from its efforts

330. National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Program: Evaluation Highlight No.1 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight01.pdf
     September 30, 2015 - more generally, helped to bring a pediatric focus to a broad range of Federal quality measurement efforts … Practice-level quality measures aim to help providers target areas for QI efforts and assess the impact … Demonstration States made substantial efforts to involve providers from child-serving practices to … efforts. … Practice- level reporting efforts could be accelerated through the provision of technical assistance

331. Getting Ready for Measurement: Overcoming Barriers and Taking Next Steps | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science-3.html
     June 01, 2020 - and Taking Next Steps Conclusion References HCOs are resource constrained, and efforts … in the best case scenario when leadership support and resources are available to support improvement efforts … measurement target, we recommend that HCOs new to measurement of diagnostic safety focus initial measurement efforts … Thus, research efforts must continue to inform and strengthen the rigor of measurement.

332. PowerPoint Presentation; Deep-Root Your Data
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_deep_root_data.pptx
     December 01, 2017 - needed resources for your project List barriers to incorporating SSI data into your quality improvement efforts … Develop an action plan to address barriers to sustaining the use of SSI data for 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.

333. Making It Work Tip Sheet: Engaging Physicians in Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/engaging-physicians.pdf
     April 01, 2022 - Common challenges to their participation in these efforts often center on having very limited time to … devote to such efforts, lack of training in quality improvement processes, and lack of knowledge of … the best, evidence-based care and safe patient outcomes, they need support to participate fully in efforts … Conversation Starters To engage physicians in efforts to reduce CLABSI and CAUTI through technical and

334. Improving Care and Proving It! | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/cmsqualconf0615.html
     March 01, 2019 - statewide after grant Showing how to do it, or how to do it better: improving results of earlier efforts … work: what these projects are building on Related, ongoing projects: many interactions with other efforts … Working with seven Category C states (IL, MA, ME, NC, OR, SC, WV) and one Category B state (PA) Major efforts … by states to provide files Essential to assess outcomes, impacts of state efforts to assist future

335. Healthcare Spending 26 Percent Higher Among Adults Who Had Adverse Childhood Experiences | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/healthcare-costs-childhood-experiences.html
     August 01, 2024 - As part of efforts to bring data to bear on critical topics impacting cost, access, and care outcomes … visits for young children, improved childcare, peer support programs, mentoring, family strengthening efforts … More broadly, it aligns with efforts by AHRQ and the Biden-Harris administration to emphasize that improving

336. Pennsylvania IMPaCT: Catalyzing Primary Care Transformation in New York | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/funding/grants/impact/success-story/ny.html
     March 01, 2017 - other States to share the models they developed and to support those States in launching improvement efforts … By blending insights from Pennsylvania with existing statewide efforts, New York created a sophisticated

337. Pennsylvania IMPaCT: Catalyzing Primary Care Transformation in New York | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/impactgrants/impact-ny-success-story.html
     April 01, 2015 - other States to share the models they developed and to support those States in launching improvement efforts … By blending insights from Pennsylvania with existing statewide efforts, New York created a sophisticated

338. Next Steps | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/next-steps.html
     March 01, 2017 - Figure 4 ) will aid in translating our thinking of patient safety in primary care and will guide our efforts … Our team will remain vigilant in efforts to be informed of changes in policy and practice in the primary

339. Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/prevent.html
     July 01, 2018 - frequently asked questions are intended to support facilities in the implementation of CAUTI prevention efforts … support facilities in the implementation of CAUTI and other healthcare-associated infection prevention efforts

340. Transforming Primary Care: Evaluating the Spread of Group Health’s Medical Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/funding/grants/transform/profiles/reid.html
     March 01, 2017 - Overview of Transformation Efforts Group Health Cooperative designed and implemented transformation … Results of Transformation Efforts National Committee for Quality Assurance Level 3 PCMH recognition … Leadership focused transformation efforts on process improvement, and improved team functioning (including … shared goals, mutual respect, and within-team communication) was expected to occur naturally from these efforts