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181. Safety in the academic medical center: transforming challenges into ingredients for improvement. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/safety-academic-medical-center-transforming-challenges-ingredients-improvement
     February 17, 2011 - This article reviews the current status of patient safety efforts at academic medical centers (AMCs). … The authors discuss the unique aspects of AMCs that may hinder patient safety and quality improvement efforts … examined the culture of safety within an AMC and used findings to guide patient safety improvement efforts … August 8, 2018 Effects of efforts to optimise morbidity and mortality rounds to serve

182. Health-Care–Associated Infections in Hospitals: Continuing Leadership Needed from HHS to Prioritize Prevention Practices and Improve Data on These Infections. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/health-care-associated-infections-hospitals-continuing-leadership-needed-hhs-prioritize
     September 06, 2016 - consistency, and data compatibility are needed to improve health care–associated infection reduction efforts … May 4, 2016 Progress Made Towards Improving Opioid Safety, But Further Efforts to Assess … August 15, 2018 Prescription Opioids: Medicare Needs to Expand Oversight Efforts to Reduce … December 6, 2017 Trends in Pregnancy-Related Deaths and Federal Efforts to Reduce Them

183. A Practical Guide for Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/cost-guide/practical-guide.html
     February 01, 2017 - in health care organizations who want to predict or report the costs of primary care transformation efforts … Develop a Detailed Description of Study Setting and Transformation Efforts An important first step … Primary care transformation efforts can take a number of years to implement and are an ongoing process … In addition, detailed descriptions of study settings, practice change efforts, and what is included in … are those that are clearly attributable to these efforts, such as staff training on the PCMH or new

184. A Practical Guide for Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/cost/guide.html
     October 01, 2015 - in health care organizations who want to predict or report the costs of primary care transformation efforts … Develop a Detailed Description of Study Setting and Transformation Efforts An important first step … Primary care transformation efforts can take a number of years to implement and are an ongoing process … In addition, detailed descriptions of study settings, practice change efforts, and what is included in … are those that are clearly attributable to these efforts, such as staff training on the PCMH or new

185. Tip Sheet: Improving Response Rates on the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/sopstipsheet.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Highlight the benefits or changes that resulted from previous survey efforts. … • Track survey response by department throughout data collection and focus promotion efforts where … Engage staff in action planning efforts to improve patient safety culture within their departments and … If one department has a very high response rate, it will encourage the others to step up their efforts

186. How the CHIPRA quality demonstration elevated children on State health policy agendas | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight04.html
     October 01, 2013 - Key messages from these States include: States have aligned their efforts with—and used their CHIPRA … to integrate behavioral and physical health, and 4) quality measurement and improvement efforts. … Findings Participating States employed a range of strategies in their efforts to maximize the impact … These efforts can help broaden support for demonstration activities, as well as provide a mechanism for … However, the common thread running throughout these efforts is represented by the new connections being

187. Are national efforts to reduce drug name confusion paying off? | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-national-efforts-reduce-drug-name-confusion-paying
     December 27, 2018 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Are national efforts to reduce drug name confusion paying … Citation Text: Are national efforts to reduce drug name confusion paying off? … Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Are national efforts

188. Evaluating the Results of a Quality Reporting Project | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/assess/what-you-evaluate/results.html
     November 01, 2018 - extent that report sponsors can demonstrate and document that they are making a difference—that their efforts … The Purpose of a Summative Evaluation Evaluators refer to efforts to judge the worth and value of a … Would it be a good return on investment to expand your efforts (and your budget)? … Did it guide or intensify their quality improvement efforts? With what results? … How has this effort affected the direction and support for future reporting efforts?

189. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/36654/psn-pdf
     June 29, 2011 - The moderate success of quality of care improvement efforts: three observations on the situation. … The moderate success of quality of care improvement efforts: three observations on the situation. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/moderate-success-quality-care-improvement-efforts-three-observations- situation … at high reliability, safety culture, and organizational learning as models for safety improvement efforts … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/moderate-success-quality-care-improvement-efforts-three-observations-situation

190. Engaging Stakeholders to Improve the Quality of Children’s Health Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/implementation-guides/implementation-guide1/index.html
     March 01, 2019 - Idaho is building an Improvement Partnership (IP), a statewide organization that will support QI efforts … initiatives and activities can bring many benefits to your State, such as: Ensuring that your QI efforts … Increasing the transparency of QI efforts. … Expanding your capacity for current and future QI efforts. 2 Empowering community members to be involved … Improving coordination of QI efforts.

191. Transformed Primary Care: Care by Design™ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/magill.html
     October 01, 2015 - Coordinated Care Health Information Technology Quality & Safety Overview of Transformation Efforts … Implementation efforts within each clinic were led by a two-person team, including a medical director … Results of Transformation Efforts The level of implementation was assessed using an internally developed … The differences in scores reflect that the main focus of implementation efforts was on care teams, and … these efforts as an organizational priority.

192. Develop and Improve Antibiotic Stewardship Activities in Your Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/improve/index.html
     October 01, 2022 - For information on how the materials below can be integrated into your practice’s efforts to improve … titled “Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Your Practice” and “Sustaining Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts … Communication Between Members of the Practice Around Antibiotic Decisions Sustaining Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts

193. Conclusion and Future Directions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/backgroundrpt/conclusion.html
     April 01, 2017 - Future efforts can provide useful information and tools for using APCD in health care measurement. … Aside from measure analyses, the continued efforts to improve documentation will provide a record of … Benchmarking efforts will provide more context for data users and valuable public data. … With ongoing efforts, APCDs remain the most comprehensive source of data for monitoring population health

194. A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/transformational-effort-patient-safety
     October 05, 2022 - Book/Report A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety. Citation Text: A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety. Subgroup on Patient Safety. Washington DC: President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; September 2023. Copy Citation Save Save to …

195. AHRQ Expands Its Repertoire to Eliminate Diagnostic Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/eliminate-diagnostic-errors.html
     August 01, 2022 - These efforts have gained momentum in recent years in critical areas. … Leading Federal efforts: In response to a 2017 Senate report, AHRQ established the Federal Interagency … Diagnostic Safety ; Diagnostic Safety Issue Briefs that examine current topics and support improvement efforts … All of AHRQ’s efforts in diagnostic safety – its lead role among Federal agencies, its research investments

196. State at a Glance: Illinois | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/il.html
     March 01, 2019 - The State also will aim to ensure that ongoing health information exchange (HIE) and other health IT efforts … Health Care Quality Illinois will collaborate with ongoing, statewide HIE and health IT development efforts … to ensure that those efforts address children's health issues and support electronic health records … information from Illinois to address a wide range of questions about the implementation and outcomes of their efforts … To what extent were Illinois's efforts to promote adoption of the medical home successful and did they

197. Key Themes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/key-themes.html
     March 01, 2017 - or another group) was a useful marker of progress in the process and helped motivate transformation efforts … For the more advanced practices, these efforts often began before the concept of PCMH was fully developed … Contextual Factors Play an Important Role in the Success of Transformation Efforts As discussed by … To support transformation efforts, organizational leaders also needed to communicate effectively with … As one investigator explained, "quality improvement efforts would stop if the one person who championed

198. Key Themes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/themes.html
     October 01, 2015 - or another group) was a useful marker of progress in the process and helped motivate transformation efforts … For the more advanced practices, these efforts often began before the concept of PCMH was fully developed … Contextual Factors Play an Important Role in the Success of Transformation Efforts As discussed by … To support transformation efforts, organizational leaders also needed to communicate effectively with … As one investigator explained, “quality improvement efforts would stop if the one person who championed

199. How the CHIPRA quality demonstration elevated children on State health policy agendas (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight04.pdf
     September 08, 2015 - Key messages from these States include: • States have aligned their efforts with—and used their CHIPRA … to integrate behavioral and physical health, and 4) quality measurement and improvement efforts. … Findings Participating States employed a range of strategies in their efforts to maximize the impact … Some demonstration States also chose to link their efforts to existing health IT initiatives funded … These efforts can help broaden support for demonstration activities, as well as provide a mechanism

200. Issue Brief - 10 16 06 v4.pub (Read-Only) (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/ImprovingQualityofHealthcareThruHIE.pdf
     January 01, 2007 - and planning, while only 20 percent of local efforts are focusing on this work. 3. … This is significantly in line with 2005 results, which indicated that 40 HIE efforts expected to be … Similar to 2005, the most common functionalities of HIE efforts are those related to care delivery. … Health information exchange efforts are significantly increasing efforts to connect with physicians … government, increasingly HIE efforts are deriving funds from other sources--those who both provide