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321. Presentation: Program Overview
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/onboarding/onboarding_overview_impmodel.pptx
     December 01, 2017 - These types of efforts and ultimately our frontline staff are the only ways to make significant improvements … With this project you can focus your attention and augment your tools with ideas to jumpstart your efforts … But for these improvement efforts to be successful, it takes much more than checking boxes. … When change efforts fail, they often do for predictable reasons. … Despite all of the team’s efforts, the project has failed—catastrophically.

322. 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

323. For American Heart Month, AHRQ Offers New Tools for Expanding Cardiac Rehabilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/heart-month-tools.html
     February 01, 2023 - implementing automatic referrals, and many enhanced care coordination and increased rehab retention efforts … During American Heart Month, AHRQ is pleased to join the Nation’s growing efforts to improve the heart … We look forward to building on these efforts in the months and years to come.

324. Section 2: Why Improve Patient Experience? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/2-why-improve/index.html
     February 01, 2020 - 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 … poor," the likelihood of a provider being named in a malpractice suit increased by 21.7 percent. 14 Efforts

325. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-older-adults1.html
     September 01, 2024 - expert workgroups have identified key areas of focus for diagnostic safety research and improvement efforts … . 6-9 However, few efforts exist to summarize existing literature focused on understanding and addressing

326. How to Use This Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/shuttered/toolkitchecklist/surgetkit1.html
     July 01, 2018 - Identify any overlap or restriction on the efforts to create surge capacity readiness at a local shuttered … facility plans compared with current surge capacity needs and broad-scope regional emergency planning efforts … Ramp-Up Description: Once the catastrophic event occurs, facility opening efforts will be under way … through the efforts of individual management team members overseeing their area of focus (staffing, … Once needed staffing, equipment, and supplies are in place, and the facility has accepted patients, efforts

327. The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide: Why Improve Patient Experience? (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/2-why-improve/cahps-section-2-why-improve-patient-experience.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - Determining Where to Focus Efforts to Improve Patient Experience 6. … Examples of prominent forces driving improvement efforts among health plans include the following: … May 2017 2-2 Examples of forces driving improvement efforts among medical groups and physician practices … 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

328. West Virginia University Uses AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Survey to Improve Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips0902.html
     October 01, 2014 - A Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program was implemented to enable staff to focus safety efforts on … Patient outcomes are also being positively affected because of increasing efforts to improve safety and

329. PowerPoint Presentation: Learn From Defects for Sustainability
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_learn_from_defects.pptx
     December 01, 2017 - Your frontline providers are working within a system that both helps and hurts their efforts. … SAY: Your safe surgery team will need to prioritize their efforts. … You need to know the numbers to drive your future quality efforts. … Frontline clinicians want to know if their efforts are paying off. … Instead, put your efforts into the individual factors that contribute to a system defect.

330. Harnessing the Potential of Health Care Collaboratives: Lessons from the Keystone ICU Project (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Goeschel_24.pdf
     January 01, 2008 - ICU to do the work, and the chief executive officer of each hospital partnered to support project efforts … Understanding how and why this collaborative succeeded may expedite progress in other improvement efforts … Understand the Differences Between Leadership and Authority: Cultivate Leaders Leading change efforts … Our efforts to engage and maintain physician involvement with this project were tied to our capacity … Commentary: Improving the quality of measurement and evaluation in quality improvement efforts.

331. Understanding SOPS Surveys: A Primer for New Users (Webcast) - Ginsberg (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/02-SOPS_101_Webcast-GINSBERG.pdf
     September 01, 2020 - as a central body to galvanize stakeholders and act as a focal point to prioritize patient safety efforts … National Action Plan dissemination in late spring • AHRQ’s SOPS Program and surveys align with these efforts

332. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/antipsychotic/introduction.html
     July 01, 2021 - The change ideas, resources, and examples presented in this toolkit reflect efforts by state Medicaid … that states, plans, providers, and patients and their families can apply during process improvement efforts

333. National Quality Strategy Fact Sheet (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nqsfactsheet_2017.pdf
     January 01, 2017 - ● Focus on the six priorities to guide efforts to improve health and health care quality. … These aims will be used to guide and assess local, State, and national efforts to improve health and … visiting www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality and downloading the Stakeholder Toolkit, or tell us about your efforts

334. Vermont State at a Glance (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/vtstateataglance.pdf
     March 01, 2012 -                                                                                         improvement efforts … information from Vermont to address a wide range of questions about the implementation and outcomes of its efforts …  To what extent did Vermont’s efforts to build on its existing Blueprint succeed in improving the

335. AHRQ Tools Help Wisconsin Hospitals Post Big Quality, Safety Gains | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201527.html
     September 01, 2015 - Quality and safety efforts reduced readmissions by 22 percent in 18 months, saving approximately $34.1 … The hospitals' efforts included a 42 percent reduction in central line-associated bloodstream infections … "All of the CUSP tools are woven into our quality improvement efforts," said Ms. Court.

336. 7. Conclusions and Recommendations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/hspc-research-study/conclusions.html
     July 01, 2021 - Such efforts can provide a foundation for further support and funding of these models by federal agencies … Study participants also mentioned lessons from past federal efforts, such as the need to not only fund … Maintain a funded entity to address core HSR needs and coordinate federal HSR efforts Maintain … Lastly, with respect to the alignment of federal PCR efforts, we recommend providing funding for a hub … Fund an Entity to Address Core PCR Needs and Coordinate Federal PCR Efforts The study found that the

337. Spotlight on Idaho -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-idaho-state-snapshot.pdf
     January 01, 2018 - For this demonstration, CMS awarded 10 grants that supported efforts in 18 States to identify effective … Practices had access to a Web-based platform to report on progress of QI efforts, and clinicians were … professional associations, private payers, and local health care systems—invested in using measurement-based efforts … “Families say they are really appreciative of my efforts and the fact that I offered to do care coordination … Continuing Efforts in Idaho After Idaho’s quality demonstration ended in February 2016— • Idaho expected

338. Primary Care Physicians' Experiences With and Attitudes Toward Pediatric Quality Reporting (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2016 - Fewer used quality reports to guide QI efforts (32.5%; 95% CI, 29.5%–35.6%). … However, only 33% had started using reports in quality improve- ment efforts. … Barriers to engaging providers in quality measurement and reporting efforts Resistance to perceived … StanekM.Quality Measurement to Support Value-Based Purchasing: Aligning Federal and State Efforts. … Why do some primary care practices engage in practice improvement efforts whereas others do not?

339. 3. Observations About the Structure of the Demonstration Grant Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/final-report/section3.html
     October 01, 2015 - were limited in the scope of certain projects because grant funding was spread thin across so many efforts … Still other States pursued promising ideas by building on previous efforts. … The abundance of projects allowed many efforts to move forward simultaneously in the demonstration States … Efforts to transform the delivery system are unlikely to be successful unless new payment models emerge … ) could not be practically implemented and therefore shifted funds to other grant efforts.

340. Facilitator Guide: Communication Strategies for Sustainability (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/sustainability/communication-strategies-guide.docx
     January 01, 2017 - Patients SAY: Today we will discuss strategies to improve communication to sustain your safety program efforts … of staff buy-in of the intervention, staff engagement, and the consistency of initial implementation efforts … CUSP provides tools and a mechanism to sustain our implementation efforts over time. … Local data that clinicians find valid should drive all safety program efforts. … You may want 8 hours of protected time each week for data collection efforts.