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81. Prologue -- Blueprints for Action (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Wakefield1.pdf
    January 01, 1999 - Micro-level efforts often reflect small team sweat equity in focused point-of-service initiatives. … Other papers incorporate low-technology efforts, including important survey efforts directed at ascertaining … The approaches detailed here are meaningful efforts geared to today's health care settings; settings … The authors of these efforts are clearly dedicated to making a difference. … In summary, what might one make of all the efforts that are represented in this volume?

82. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module5/engagemt-checklist.docx
    March 01, 2017 - medical director, etc.) and any staff who provide care or services can use this tool to guide their efforts … Review each task to plan, implement, and enhance resident engagement efforts. … to this list any activities already underway to support engagement of residents and family in safety efforts … Engage Residents and Family Responsible Party Notes Assign a leader to oversee the facility’s efforts … Focus on safety efforts, behaviors, and skills.

83. 2. Developing and Running a State-Based Extension Program To Support QI in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/how-to-guide/guide2.html
    August 01, 2024 - primary care quality improvement (QI) can help increase capacity and expertise, reduce duplicative efforts … , reach a broader and more diverse set of practices, and help sustain QI efforts over time. … and opportunities to coordinate with these efforts, and identify potential partners for your work. … Once you have the full picture of the current QI- and primary care–focused efforts in your state, you … can determine the areas of greatest need for new or more coordinated efforts.

84. Tools for Sustainability: Premortem and Scorecard: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/sustainability/premortem-scorecard-fac-guide.html
    February 01, 2017 - Identify risks to sustaining your efforts with Premortem Tool. … Say: Consider how to sustain your efforts as far in advance as possible. … Consider the barriers for sustaining team efforts. … efforts with resources and protected time. … Maybe no one has heard of your safety efforts. 

85. Primary Care Extension in Oklahoma: An Evidence-Based Approach to Dissemination and Implementation of Innovations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/impactgrants/impact-profile-ok.html
    April 01, 2015 - Extension in Oklahoma AHRQ's IMPaCT grants were designed to support State-level primary care improvement efforts … The use of CHIOs to assist with primary care transformation efforts was promoted at a statewide conference … County-based efforts were more successful when they helped to focus assistance on locally identified … So far, however, there has been little communication and coordination between these efforts. … The Missouri team made an early decision to focus the IMPaCT project efforts on Pettis County, where

86. 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-transcript.html
    December 01, 2017 - Integrating Teamwork Tools into CUSP Efforts Webinar Transcript On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI in … Today's topic is Integrating Teamwork Tools into CUSP Efforts. … the critical [TeamSTEPPS 00:01:36] tools and how those tools can be associated and enhance our CAUTI efforts … This is where we focus a lot of our efforts in educating our staff, our clinicians over the reasons why … Now, we're going to look at how we can apply some of the tools to our CUSP CAUTI efforts.

87. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-sustainability-centers-of-excellence7.html
    April 01, 2025 - This issue brief provides recommendations, examples, and stories from successful efforts to promote the … The four pillars of sustainability can guide efforts to maximize impact and influence, leading to CEs … Through careful efforts to ensure longevity, CEs can promote lasting impact on the health systems they

88. Designing & Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care The Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions Webinar 3
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/aspire_webinar3/aspire_webinar3.pptx
    December 01, 2014 - Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions Webinar 3: Review & Update Readmission Reduction Efforts … Agenda Describe the purpose of conducting an inventory of efforts and resources relevant to reducing … I don’t know how that is coming.…” Inventory Hospital-Based Efforts & Resources Readmission reduction … activities have proliferated over time Some efforts may have developed in isolation from one another … “You don’t understand, there are just no resources in the community” Inventory Community Efforts

89. New Mexico IMPaCT: Catalyzing Community Health Transformation in Kansas (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/impact-ks-success-story.pdf
    April 01, 2015 - other States to share the models they developed and to support those States in launching improvement efforts … leveraged insights from the IMPaCT partnership into new cross-university collaboration and ongoing efforts … • Improving community health through efforts to enhance the built environment, provide information … , including efforts encouraging the adoption of patient-centered medical homes and electronic health … to incorporate health programming into cooperative extension efforts, such as improving chronic disease

90. Improvement Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/h2h/improvement-data.html
    July 01, 2021 - Generally, the quality improvement efforts began in February of 2018. … After implementing the quality improvement efforts, special cause variation was detected with an upward

91. High-Performance Work Practices in CLABSI Prevention Interventions (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/clabsi-hpwpreport.pdf
    May 01, 2015 - At that time, numerous efforts were underway to reduce HAIs, but much of this work had not yet been … from organizations with less effective HAI reduction efforts? … We chose this hospital because we knew that it had a strong focus on HPWPs and had made efforts in … of HPWPs in CLABSI prevention efforts. … Finally, we present findings from our comparison of CLABSI prevention efforts among hospitals that

92. Sustainability Tool - Sustainability Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/tool.html
    June 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

93. Tools and Resources for Research, Quality Improvement, and Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/index.html
    March 01, 2020 - evaluators; leaders, decisionmakers, and implementers of practice transformation and quality improvement efforts … Transformation and Quality Improvement have been developed and tested by those on the front lines of these efforts

94. How Can Leaders Drive Improvements in Diagnostic Safety? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/leadership-3.html
    June 01, 2021 - used to engage and coach hospital executives on their role in patient safety and quality improvement efforts … their job and they are expected to participate fully in diagnosis and diagnostic safety improvement efforts … Second, they need to feel that they can meaningfully contribute to those efforts. … collective accountability can lead to robust progress in diagnostic safety without which improvement efforts … Taking on secondary roles as part of a coordinating team specifically tasked with aligning efforts across

95. AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/impact-grants/index.html
    August 01, 2015 - The profiles include an overview of the efforts to spread primary care transformation within the model … State, efforts to disseminate the model in partner States, the main lessons learned from these efforts … State successfully helped to support implementation and dissemination of primary care transformation efforts

96. Conclusions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/cauti-interim/cauti-interim5.html
    July 01, 2013 - Continued analyses and ongoing data collection efforts will provide a further understanding of the effect … This increase has had an impact on all those associated with these efforts, not only our national project … Although more units have submitted at least one outcome data point, efforts are ongoing to ensure data … These efforts serve to create a wide-ranging package of targeted interventions. … Emergency Department Always diligent in the pursuit of efforts to achieve best possible outcomes for

97. Primary Care Extension in Oklahoma: An Evidence-Based Approach to Dissemination and Implementation of Innovations (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/impact-profile-ok.pdf
    April 01, 2015 - The use of CHIOs to assist with primary care transformation efforts was promoted at a statewide conference … County-based efforts catalyzed group quality improvement among local physicians and brought diverse … County-based efforts were more successful when they helped to focus assistance on locally identified … So far, however, there has been little communication and coordination between these efforts. … The Missouri team made an early decision to focus the IMPaCT project efforts on Pettis County, where

98. Implications for Practice Improvement, Research, and Policy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-older-adults3.html
    August 01, 2024 - Recent efforts have called for the study and mitigation of harm from diagnostic errors in older adult … Ongoing efforts to reduce diagnostic errors specifically in older adult populations are highlighted below … Efforts to increase geriatrics competencies among health professionals who care for older adults have … National efforts to implement quality measures that include screening for delirium and frailty offer … Active efforts must be made to advocate for and support partnerships between researchers, healthcare

99. Evaluation Issues | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/demo-program/grants/issues.html
    August 01, 2022 - Efforts to link the issues of patient safety and malpractice liability through the PSML demonstration … observations from the first year of the PSML evaluation was that limits on data were likely to thwart efforts … malpractice litigation and early disclosure and settlement activities, will be a precursor for any future efforts

100. Transformed Primary Care: Care by Design (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-magill.pdf
     April 01, 2015 - University of Utah School of Medicine AHRQ Grant Number: R18 HS019136 Overview of Transformation Efforts … Implementation efforts within each clinic were led by a two-person team, including a medical director … The differences in scores reflect that the main focus of implementation efforts was on care teams, and … these efforts as an organizational priority. … No. 15-0038-8-EF April 2015 Overview of Transformation Efforts Results of Transformation Efforts