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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/sustainability-tool.docx
May 01, 2017 - This tool can be used to identify sustainability issues in planning and implementing your improvement efforts … Use this tool to ensure you have appropriate resources and strategies in place to sustain improvement efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/envscan/summary.html
June 01, 2017 - growing in how to leverage APCD data for consumer-facing Web sites for price transparency, as well as for efforts … Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) have taken the lead in supporting and documenting current State efforts … These efforts include working to harmonize data collection and release across States and providing technical … They also provide tools such as report cards on States’ efforts on price transparency to help purchasers … Issues with data completeness, quality, standardization, and access hamper such efforts.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/onboarding/onboarding_data_into_action_facnotes.docx
December 01, 2017 - Meaningful Change
SAY:
In this module, you’ll learn about using data as part of your team’s improvement efforts … results from your safety culture assessment during a safety culture debriefing to meaningfully inform efforts … It is a critical part of accelerating your team’s improvement efforts. … It can help engage the staff and invigorate their efforts. … It lets them know that their efforts are appreciated.
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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
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final/clabsifinal4.html
January 01, 2013 - Only well-defined interventions with demonstrated significant results can be successful in national efforts … National Infrastructure
The creation of a national infrastructure to set goals, coordinate efforts, … Of the units identified, about half dropped their rates since targeted efforts were implemented. … National Program for Local and Unit Audiences
Hospitals and regions do not all begin improvement efforts … techniques and tools such as TeamSTEPPS®, Just Culture, Lean, and Six Sigma programs with the CUSP efforts
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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
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/forming-cuspteam-slides.pptx
January 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
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Why Engage Across Disciplines
Successful efforts … implement new policies and procedures to achieve quality improvement goals and sustain patient safety efforts … participation in safety work
Learns about CUSP and the Science of Safety, developing the lenses to lead change efforts … hinder CUSP work
Helps the team to understand the organization’s strategic goals and to align their efforts … domain score of ≥ 80%
Staff owns safety—use unit-level data and staff inputs to drive improvement efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/maternal-mortality-4.html
September 01, 2021 - It is imperative to include a diagnostic safety lens to improvement efforts targeting maternal health … further optimize care. 17 This agenda presents an opportunity to integrate ongoing diagnostic safety efforts … Assessments
Standardizing methods for determining risk will improve recognition and escalation efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/childhealth/index.html
March 01, 2019 - The CHIPRA quality demonstration projects highlighted in Table 1 are important examples of the many efforts … Other important efforts include:
The Secretary of Health and Human Services releases an annual report … Top of Page
Evaluating these Projects
In the context of multiple efforts to improve measures of the
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/maternal-mortality-4.html
September 01, 2021 - It is imperative to include a diagnostic safety lens to improvement efforts targeting maternal health … further optimize care. 17 This agenda presents an opportunity to integrate ongoing diagnostic safety efforts … Assessments
Standardizing methods for determining risk will improve recognition and escalation efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips1202.html
October 01, 2014 - PHCC also received a patient safety award from the Georgia QIO for its efforts in improving the health … That way, she explains, "Patients can share the glory, knowing their efforts helped make the award possible
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/hotline/conclusios6.html
May 01, 2016 - We did so believing that we had avoided the problems documented in other such efforts. … assess both the relative value of this particular method for gathering consumer input and how continued efforts … to promote the patient voice in improving patient safety could be integrated with other ongoing AHRQ efforts—in … blaming individuals toward identifying and addressing systemic risks) was critical to the agency’s efforts … Outreach efforts to patients:
Provider Web sites
Posters and notecards in provider facilities
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www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/training/all-modules/index.html
December 01, 2022 - To better enable hospitals to focus their efforts on one improvement area at a time, and to proceed independently … Care Coordination
This module provides guidance on implementing changes to enhance care coordination efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cdom0502.html
October 01, 2014 - health care alliance of hospitals and health care systems, is using AHRQ research and data in multiple efforts … "Reports provide hospitals with comparative data to assist in prioritization of improvement efforts.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/3-are-you-ready/cahps-ambulatory-care-guide-section-3.pdf
May 01, 2017 - Determining Where to Focus Efforts to Improve Patient Experience
6. … At the very least, recognize the impact
of their absence on efforts to improve CAHPS performance and … Promoting clinical involvement in hospital quality improvement efforts: The
effects of top management … Does publicizing hospital performance stimulate quality improvement efforts? … Leading change: Why transformation efforts fail. Harv Bus Rev
1995;73(2):59-67.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/oerep0801.html
October 01, 2014 - Her research studied various efforts to improve the success of health interventions and the incidence … addressed improving the health of Spanish-speaking communities in North Carolina with numerous outreach efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK2_T1-Suggested_Agenda_for_Meeting_on_Monitoring_Final.docx
October 01, 2016 - antimicrobial stewardship program fit in with existing infection control or quality improvement (QI) efforts … 5 minutes
How will tracking efforts fit into daily and monthly workflows and task responsibilities?
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/county-level-hospital-opioids.html
March 01, 2018 - That's why as Director of AHRQ, I'm excited about the efforts we have underway to achieve that goal and … Another excellent data resource to support policymakers' efforts to develop cost-effective health care … AHRQ's mission in a digital age, and we’re excited to fulfill that role in support of ongoing national efforts
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/nurses-week.html
May 01, 2018 - role in the delivery of a broad range of primary care services, while leading practice improvement efforts … Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families , a toolkit that supports staff efforts … It includes a technique called the “Warm Handoff Plus,” which involves patients and families in efforts
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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