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321. Comparing Quality Scores to an Independent Standard | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/choose/standard.html
     January 01, 2023 - or better than other local plans or providers; this may encourage collaborative quality improvement efforts

322. Module 20: Creating Quality Improvement Teams and QI Plans (pdf file)
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-20-creating-qi-teams.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - or committee is the group of individuals within a practice charged with carrying out improvement efforts … it to help practices identify areas in which they feel they need to improve and want to focus their efforts … This is the end to which all quality improvement efforts at your practice are working. … Who will lead your organization's quality improvement efforts? … Who will lead your quality efforts and who will they report to?

323. TeamSTEPPS Diagnosis Improvement Course | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/diagnosis-improvement/index.html
     February 01, 2024 - and providers need resources to mitigate diagnostic harm and few tools are available to guide such efforts … nonclinicians and patients and their families, and provide assessment and training tools to support local efforts

324. Follow-up Visits for Children Who Are Obese or Overweight with a Weight-Related Comorbidity: Table 4 (pdf file)
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-0242-table4.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - Affordable Care Act includes a range of provisions that will help promote obesity-related preventive efforts

325. Quality Improvement Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/asthma/qi-strategies.html
     July 01, 2021 - quality improvement (QI) coaches to evaluate systems and develop process measures to guide improvement efforts … practice-based incentives for improvement Understand variation in performance and guide improvement efforts … there will be practical, ethical, and legal limitations relative to sharing data and how improvement efforts … areas where there are gaps in their systems or processes that they can focus on in their improvement efforts … supporting the application of QI methods to identify areas for improvement and coaching in improvement efforts

326. Strategy 6K: Cultivating Cultural Competence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/communication/strategy6kculturalcompetence.html
     March 01, 2020 - Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process Section 5: Determining Where To Focus Efforts … Because these standard collection efforts may not yield complete information for all members, health … plans can also: Pursue more proactive efforts to collect information as part of direct, routine interactions … Moreover, CIGNA found that its efforts to increase the diversity of its practitioner pool led to higher

327. Appendix E: Resources and Tools To Address Language and Cultural Barriers and Improve Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/lepguide/app-e.html
     September 01, 2020 - National Board aims to consolidate resources and avoid duplication in the field; coalesce existing efforts … largest number of locations; model a multiorganizational collaboration that recognizes certification efforts … and other testing organizations' efforts without compromising their intellectual property; and have

328. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/index.html
     March 01, 2024 - other evidence-based practices, the toolkit helps ICUs assess their current CLABSI and CAUTI prevention efforts … , has resources to help ICUs overcome common challenges in infection-reduction efforts, and provides

329. TeamSTEPPS® Instructor Manual | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/instructor/reference/acknowl.html
     March 01, 2014 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health and Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Search all AHRQ sites Search small Search Menu …

330. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/description.html
     October 01, 2020 - Practices may have focused their data efforts on producing information related to payment incentives … with particular diseases, provide care management services, or contribute to national surveillance efforts … Linking patients with care teams in the EHR has the added benefit of supporting population health efforts … practices can recognize that patients and families have a unique perspective to lend to quality improvement efforts … evidence-based practice, and quality improvement within the practice Successful organizational change efforts

331. Health Care Simulation to Advance Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/errors-safety/simulproj15/index.html
     August 01, 2018 - Health and Human Services (HHS) are actively engaged both domestically in preparedness and research efforts … Mastery learning and other forms of deliberate practice align well with CDC guidance and assessment efforts … Using a systems approach: Considerable variation and gradations of effectiveness exist in training efforts … A systems approach takes the guesswork out of these efforts. … As the HHS agency charged with improving health care quality and safety, AHRQ applauds the efforts of

332. 5 Tk1 T1-Background Final (pdf file)
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK1_T1-Background_final.pdf
     October 01, 2016 - to determine the most appropriate agents for initial empirical antimicrobial therapy and to target efforts

333. National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Proram, Evaluation Highlights, Supplement to Issue 1 (pdf file)
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/supplhighlight01.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - The practice-level reporting efforts of Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, the … Measurement Maine aims to integrate quality measurement activities across Federal and State reporting efforts

334. Key Study Outcomes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/outcomes.html
     October 01, 2015 - care transformation many years prior, while others evaluated more recent or ongoing transformation efforts … However, AHRQ specifically funded evaluations of transformation efforts that had been in process long … Two studies highlighted efforts by small practices (i.e., ≤5 physicians) to enhance the comprehensiveness … level of ≥9%) improved more than patients who were in control, linking the improvement to the Centers’ efforts … with outreach, diabetes education, and psychosocial care increased, consistent with the PCMH clinics’ efforts

335. Key Study Outcomes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/key-study-outcomes.html
     March 01, 2017 - care transformation many years prior, while others evaluated more recent or ongoing transformation efforts … However, AHRQ specifically funded evaluations of transformation efforts that had been in process long … Two studies highlighted efforts by small practices (i.e., ≤5 physicians) to enhance the comprehensiveness … level of ≥9%) improved more than patients who were in control, linking the improvement to the Centers’ efforts … with outreach, diabetes education, and psychosocial care increased, consistent with the PCMH clinics’ efforts

336. Social Determinants of Health Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sdoh/resources.html
     April 01, 2023 - the critical role that social determinants play in health, and has numerous resources to facilitate efforts

337. Patient Safety Culture and Medical Liability—Recommendations for Measurement, Analysis, and Interpretation: A Commentary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/waever.html
     August 01, 2017 - Pronovost Efforts by health care organizations to promote a culture of safety and regularly evaluate … offer many opportunities, 14,15 we suggest several ideas that may help future research and evaluation efforts … is a necessary path for understanding the full range of cultural norms that may enhance (or impede) efforts … offer important insight when attempting to examine the interplay between organizational culture and efforts … This may introduce unnecessary noise in efforts to examine changes in culture related to safety and liability

338. CUSP Toolkit, The Role of the Nurse Manager, Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/nursing/nursing-notes.html
     December 01, 2012 - and procedures that help the unit team achieve their quality improvement goals and sustain their CUSP efforts … In addition to hiring and training efforts, nurse managers work closely with staff on professional development … nurse managers work with staff to develop good systems, they are supporting CUSP quality improvement efforts … Nurse managers also support the efforts of the CUSP team by helping the team develop a way for its work … of the unit across the five pillars, the pillars provide the consistency and focus needed to sustain efforts

339. Oregon State at a Glance (pdf file)
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/orstateataglance.pdf
     March 01, 2012 - information from Oregon to address a wide range of questions about the implementation and outcomes of its efforts

340. Improvement Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/tcd/improvement-data.html
     July 01, 2021 - The QMETRIC team had hoped that with the focused efforts, 2019 rates for these two plans would further … However, in 2019, this health plan hired an individual to specifically manage efforts for improving the