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81. Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-hpwpreport/clabsi-hpwp2.html
    August 01, 2015 - from organizations with less effective HAI reduction efforts? … and impact of HAI interventions, paying particular attention to the role of HPWPs in HAI reduction efforts … We chose this hospital because we knew that it had a strong focus on HPWPs and had made efforts in HAI … , identifying facilitators and barriers to these efforts, and drafting an initial analysis of the role … of HPWPs in CLABSI prevention efforts.

82. Building State Capacity Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/interim-reports.html
    January 01, 2025 - challenges that grantees faced in setting up these cooperatives during the COVID-19 pandemic; their efforts … establishing cooperatives and recruiting primary care practices to participate in care improvement efforts … early and ongoing engagement with payers to ensure alignment of incentives with quality improvement efforts … The final evaluation report will examine the impacts of these efforts on improving heart health and reducing

83. Recruitment and Retention of Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement Initiatives: A Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/quality-improvement-initiatives-toolkit.html
    January 01, 2021 - This toolkit provides guidance, tips, and examples to help support future efforts to engage practices … the insights and tips included here (customizing them for their own needs) to make their recruitment efforts

84. Chapter 1. The Framework for Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/guide1.html
    February 01, 2016 - VTE prevention efforts can also be synergistic with efforts to increase patient activity, reduce central … Identifying why past efforts failed to produce desired results will help guide current efforts and avoid … a hospitalist may lead efforts on the floors or wards. … and their exploration of prior efforts. … Assess past efforts and barriers to implementation.

85. Chapter 1. The Framework for Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/guide1.html
    February 01, 2016 - VTE prevention efforts can also be synergistic with efforts to increase patient activity, reduce central … Identifying why past efforts failed to produce desired results will help guide current efforts and avoid … a hospitalist may lead efforts on the floors or wards. … and their exploration of prior efforts. … Assess past efforts and barriers to implementation.

86. 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?

87. 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.

88. 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

89. 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. 

90. Building State Cooperatives for Healthcare Improvement: Meeting Summary (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications2/files/building-state-cooperatives-meeting-summary.pdf
    September 26, 2024 - • Learn to effectively tell the story of the state cooperative’s efforts and objectives to build … • 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. … Aligning incentives, payment, and state-level resources with improvement efforts.

91. Private Sector Efforts in Value-Based Purchasing and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-measures/21st-century/private-sector.html
    June 01, 2018 - The Challenge and Potential for Assuring Quality Health Care for the 21st Century Private Sector Efforts … Century From Quality Measures to Quality Care: Examples of Quality Improvement at Work Private Sector Efforts … EQP's has released informational guides and launched a Web site as part of their efforts to educate the … Their leading edge efforts tell us that we can do better. … By moving from a patchwork of public and private efforts to systemwide changes, we can bridge the gap

92. 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

93. 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

94. 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

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. With TeamSTEPPS 3.0, AHRQ Refreshes a Landmark Patient Safety Training Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/teamstepps-30.html
    September 01, 2023 - safety training program that supports AHRQ’s mission and its central role in the Nation’s expanding efforts … In 2023, AHRQ’s efforts to advance patient safety remain robust and wide-ranging, including recent research … new TeamSTEPPS 3.0 as an important resource that can help support our colleagues in their critical efforts

97. 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

98. 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.

99. 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

100. 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