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41. 1. Background and Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/how-to-guide/guide1.html
    August 01, 2024 - These initiatives have included efforts led by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (e.g … or local efforts within a state. …   has the following potential benefits:  Coordinate efforts.  … Without such coordination, QI initiatives can end up duplicating efforts and limiting their impact. … This may also make it possible for practices to work with the same facilitator across efforts.

42. The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide: Determining Where to Focus Efforts to Improve Patient Experience (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/5-determining-focus/cahps-ambulatory-care-guide-section-5.pdf
    May 01, 2017 - DETERMINING WHERE TO FOCUS EFFORTS TO IMPROVE PATIENT EXPERIENCE 5-1 5.A. … Determining Where to Focus Efforts to Improve Patient Experience 6. … Determining Where to Focus Efforts to Improve Patient Experience May 2017 5-1 5. … Determining Where to Focus Efforts to Improve Patient Experience May 2017 5-2 5.A.1. … DETERMINING WHERE TO FOCUS EFFORTS TO IMPROVE PATIENT EXPERIENCE 5.A.

43. Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/spreading-fac-notes.html
    December 01, 2017 - Consider the barriers for sustaining team efforts. … efforts with resources and protected time. … When planning to sustain your efforts, consider who is actively participating in team efforts and where … efforts have ceased. … List all the reasons that your team’s efforts might be lost.

44. Facilitator Guide: Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_sustspreading_facnotes.docx
    December 01, 2017 - Consider the barriers for sustaining team efforts. … efforts with resources and protected time. … When planning to sustain your efforts, consider who is actively participating in team efforts and where … efforts have ceased. … List all the reasons that your team’s efforts might be lost.

45. 152-Cusp-Tip-Sheet-Engaging-Physicians (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/152-cusp-tip-sheet-engaging-physicians.docx
    October 01, 2024 - Common challenges to their participation in these efforts include limited time to devote to such efforts … patient outcomes to fully participate in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) prevention efforts … practices to improve patient safety.4 Conversation Starters To engage physicians in MRSA prevention efforts … Smith spoke to Nurse Kara, and that he undermined her efforts to follow a protocol we have made significant … Smith’s concerns and obtain his support for our MRSA prevention efforts?

46. Final Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/2014FinalHACreport4Web-13Dec2016.pdf
    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

47. Presentation: Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Improvments
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_sustspreading.pptx
    December 01, 2017 - Consider the barriers for sustaining team efforts. … efforts with resources and protected time. … Here is a list of activities to sustain your safe surgery efforts. … When planning to sustain your efforts, consider who is actively participating in team efforts and where … List all the reasons that your team’s efforts might be lost.

48. 144-Cusp-Tip-Sheet-Engaging-Surgeons (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/144-cusp-tip-sheet-engaging-surgeons.docx
    April 01, 2025 - Common challenges to their participation in these efforts include limited time to devote to such efforts … in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and surgical site infection (SSI) prevention efforts … Disseminate data on MRSA and SSI prevention efforts (e.g., infection rates and days since last infection … Smith spoke to Nurse Kara, and that he undermined her efforts to follow a protocol when we have made … Smith’s concerns and obtain his support for our MRSA and SSI prevention efforts?

49. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2025 - We hope you find that it facilitates your efforts to obtain public information about AHRQ programs. … For current program information and to facilitate your efforts to obtain public information about the

50. Meeting Sessions and Takeaways | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/meeting-summary-cooperatives/building-state2.html
    October 01, 2024 - Ohio has a long history of improvement efforts for health, so when approaching legislators, it helped … Maintain efforts to improve access to care and better address social and structural determinants and … Engage clinicians to ensure that the QI efforts address what they see as important for care. … Center and embed equity in primary care and QI efforts.  … Research the legislators’ priorities and align funding efforts along those priorities. 

51. AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/final-impact-synthesis-report.pdf
    July 22, 2015 - with other ongoing efforts. … facilitators, population and community health efforts, intersection with State PCMH efforts, and products … In North Carolina, formal efforts to align statewide primary care improvement efforts began in 2006 … These efforts are described in this section. … Extension efforts require coordination.

52. AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/final-impact-synthesis-report.pdf
    July 22, 2015 - with other ongoing efforts. … facilitators, population and community health efforts, intersection with State PCMH efforts, and products … In North Carolina, formal efforts to align statewide primary care improvement efforts began in 2006 … These efforts are described in this section. … Extension efforts require coordination.

53. Overview of the 14 Transforming Primary Care Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/overview.html
    October 01, 2015 - For example, one study examined PCMH transformation efforts across a single integrated health care system … Approaches to Transformation The practice transformation efforts studied by the TPC investigators also … Eleven studies reported efforts by practices to provide more accessible services , including offering … A different subset of 11 studies reported efforts to provide more patient-centered care , including … Practices also used plan-do-study-act (or plan-do-check-act) cycles for quality improvement efforts.

54. Overview of the 14 Transforming Primary Care Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/overview.html
    March 01, 2017 - For example, one study examined PCMH transformation efforts across a single integrated health care system … Approaches to Transformation The practice transformation efforts studied by the TPC investigators also … Eleven studies reported efforts by practices to provide more accessible services , including offering … A different subset of 11 studies reported efforts to provide more patient-centered care , including … Practices also used plan-do-study-act (or plan-do-check-act) cycles for quality improvement efforts.

55. Tool 3: Hospital Inventory (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/mcaidread_tool3_hosp_inv.docx
    June 02, 2025 - Tool 3: Hospital Inventory Tool 3: Hospital Inventory Tool Purpose Readmission reduction efforts … at your hospital have likely proliferated over the past several years, and many of these efforts may … The purpose of this tool is to prompt a comprehensive inventory of all readmission reduction-related efforts … An inventory of readmission reduction efforts will reveal the administrative, clinical, health information … Once you know what efforts and assets already exist, you can consider whether they are optimally aligned

56. Integrating Teamwork Tools into CUSP Efforts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/integrating-teamwork-tools-cusp-efforts-video.html
    December 01, 2017 - Integrating Teamwork Tools into CUSP Efforts Video Presentation Return to CAUTI Toolkit Information

57. Improving Care Delivery Through Lean: Implementation Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/index.html
    November 01, 2014 - Lean and Quality Improvement at the Organization        History of Quality and Efficiency Improvement Efforts … Lean and Quality Improvement at the Organization        History of Quality and Efficiency Improvement Efforts … Lean and Quality Improvement at the Organization        History of Quality and Efficiency Improvement Efforts … Lean and Quality Improvement at the Organization        History of Quality and Efficiency Improvement Efforts … Lean and Quality Improvement at the Organization        History of Quality and Efficiency Improvement Efforts

58. Using Person-to-Person Outreach Strategies for Quality Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/promote/multiple/outreach.html
    September 01, 2019 - To reach those people in your audience, you may want to add a personal dimension to your promotional efforts … them for feedback about how people they touch are responding to your report and to your promotional efforts … groups have little in the way of financial resources, although they have priceless assets for your efforts … Learn more about Choosing and Involving Partners in promotional efforts.

59. 142-Cusp-Tip-Sheet-Engaging-Leaders (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/142-cusp-tip-sheet-engaging-leaders.docx
    April 01, 2025 - Engage a senior executive who can align your program’s goals with other strategic efforts across the … Recognition: Senior leaders might not immediately recognize the value of your patient safety program’s efforts … Ensure that the senior leader knows of and gives recognition for their efforts. · Regularly share all … data related to your efforts with senior leaders, not just data about outliers. … Conversation Starters To engage a senior leader in efforts to prevent MRSA and SSI, gather all the facts

60. Provider: Pharmacist | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement AHRQ Research Inspires Efforts