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1. For Hospice Care, a Pressing Need to Ensure Quality for Patients and Families | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2022 - Home News Blog AHRQ Views For Hospice Care, a Pressing Need to Ensure … AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders For Hospice Care, a Pressing Need to Ensure … We need to understand patient values for end-of-life care and ensure the quality of care they receive … originally created December 2022 Internet Citation: For Hospice Care, a Pressing Need to Ensure … https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/hospice-care-ensure-quality.html  

2. How Jurisdictions Can Ensure COVID-19 Vaccine Access for Staff and Residents in Long-term Care Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2021 - Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network Resources Catalog How Jurisdictions Can Ensure … Resources Catalog News Best Practice Summaries How Jurisdictions Can Ensure … Access for Staff and Residents in Long-term Care Settings Resource:   How Jurisdictions Can Ensure … 2021 Page originally created September 2021 Internet Citation: How Jurisdictions Can Ensure

3. More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2019 - More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions 1 MORE EFFORT IS NEEDED … TO ENSURE PATIENTS UNDERSTAND DOCTORS’ INSTRUCTIONS Did you know? … Federal programs are working to ensure that all Americans always receive health-literate care, including

4. Sustainability Checklist for Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2017 - ___ Complete the Sustainability Scorecard Every 6 months Daily Care Processes  • Continue to ensure … conduct a delirium assessment for patients receiving mechanical ventilation Daily *  • Continue to ensure … that eligible patients are receiving a spontaneous awakening trial (SAT) Daily *  • Continue to ensure … conduct a delirium assessment for patients receiving mechanical ventilation Daily *  • Continue to ensure … has ARDS Daily * * These are daily evidence based best practices that we encourage you to use to ensure

5. Care for the Caregiver Program Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2022 - Ensure Team Effectiveness . … Develop an infrastructure to ensure effective support program deployment. … To ensure optimal team performance, it is important to have an infrastructure in place to ensure second-victim … Ensure “ready access” support for clinicians in high-risk clinical areas and teams. … to ensure the program is fulfilling its intent. 

6. Managing a CAHPS Survey Project | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2022 - Survey Project By developing a comprehensive project management strategy early on, you can ensure … This communication and coordination will ensure that the leaders of each sub-team consult with and inform … Ways to encourage good communication include the following: Ensure some overlap of membership in key … you will need to monitor their progress, work with them to overcome any setbacks they encounter, and ensure … using a vendor to produce online or printed reports, your job is to oversee the vendor's work and to ensure

7. Sustainability-Checklist (doc file)
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   January 01, 2017 - month Complete the Sustainability Scorecard Every 6 months Daily Care Processes Continue to ensure … conduct a delirium assessment for patients receiving mechanical ventilation Daily* Continue to ensure … that eligible patients are receiving a spontaneous awakening trial (SAT) Daily* Continue to ensure … conduct a delirium assessment for patients receiving mechanical ventilation Daily* Continue to ensure … or has ARDS Daily* *These are daily evidence based best practices that we encourage you to use to ensure

8. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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   January 01, 2017 - Ensure physicians are educated about project goals and progress 3. … Ensure your intensive care unit (ICU) has an overarching protocolized approach to daily ICU patient management … Ensure your ICU has a protocolized approach for the appropriate use of noninvasive ventilation 6. … Ensure your ICU has a protocolized approach for using subglottic secretion drainage endotracheal tubes … Ensure infection control reports of ventilator-associated event (VAE) rates are reviewed with unit staff

9. BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 (doc file)
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   March 01, 2017 - Ensure privacy and good lighting. 5. … Ensure all supplies are conveniently positioned. 2. … Prepare the antiseptic solution; ensure the resident is not allergic to iodine. … Consider attaching catheter to drainage system now, if not already attached, and ensure the drainage … Ensure the tubing in not kinked and the drainage bag is below the level of the bladder.

10. TeamSTEPPS 2.0 Course Management Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2019 - These documents ensure that Master Trainers are familiar with the contents of each module and know the … Activities to Complete Prior to the Course Several actions should be taken prior to class to ensure … that all materials (handouts, supplies, etc.) are available. ___ Ensure that all needed equipment … is available and operational. ___ Ensure that the classroom setup is appropriate. ___ Check setup … sign the attendance roster. ___ ( At the start of the course ) Ensure that all participants have a

11. TeamSTEPPS Video Debrief Guide: CUS and Teach-Back on Inpatient Medical Unit (pdf file)
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    August 31, 2023 - Inpatient Medical Unit Video Objective To demonstrate the use of CUS and Teach-Back techniques to ensure … This technique was used to ensure the patient had clearly understood the instructions. … • Use the Teach-Back technique to ensure patient understanding; use interpreter resources when language

12. Opioids in Older Adults Compendium | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - Integrate Equity - Ensure tools and resources are available in language and literacy level Ensure that … Use 'teach-back' for changes in medication Use “teach-back” or other communication techniques to ensure … Train/Educate Clinicians & Staff - Ensure utilization of evidence-based nonpharmacologic treatments … Ensure that clinicians and staff understand, recommend, and utilize evidence-based nonpharmacologic … Materials which are culturally and linguistically representative In addition to oral communication, ensure

13. Competencies To Improve Diagnosis in Health Professions Education  | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2022 - In addition, we must ensure that during their training, learners encounter the conditions for which they … Clinical curricula must be designed to ensure broad, intentional exposure to important conditions and … be adaptive rather than fixed to ensure learner competence. … promising. 82 , 83 We have an opportunity to develop a national program of assessment that aims to ensure … Further, the education community must ensure that we measure diagnostic competence as part of continuing

14. Provider Contact Information (pdf file)
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    January 29, 2021 - Smartphrase (exclusive to Epic EMR) developed by Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital to ensure … QUALITY INITIATIVE: Ensure AVS instructions provide caregivers with daytime and after hours phone numbers … METHOD: Use a standardized smart phrase to ensure information can easily be entered into the AVS. … Pilot Phase May 14th - 31st During the initial implementation we need PHYSCIAN AND NURSING input to ensure

15. Asking the Hard Questions About Telehealth | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - There is much to be learned about telehealth to ensure that its future applications improve quality and … but instead ask “How can we learn from the use of telehealth today to ensure care is better tomorrow? … As we recommit ourselves to addressing historical racism and advancing health equity, we must ensure … has the potential to increase access for people living in rural and frontier communities, and we must ensure … we must not rely on assumptions; it is time to ask challenging questions and create the evidence to ensure

16. Aspirin Workflow: Ensuring Evidence-Based Care with Medical Assistants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - Workflow  (PDF, 112 KB, 1 page) This workflow shows how medical assistants can provide a check to ensure

17. Preventing Infections in Endoscopic Procedures (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2017 - Ensure appropriate personal protective equipment is worn at all times and that the reprocessing … Perform leak testing before manual cleaning to ensure the scope does not leak by using a wet or dry … Ensure use of proper connec- tors between scope and auto- matic endoscope reprocessor (AER). … drying cabinet per IFUs) with all valves open and removable parts detached but stored with scope; ensure … Ensure the facility has a written policy regarding storage time before endoscopes need to be reprocessed

18. Physician Champion Checklist | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2017 - Ensure physicians are educated about project goals and progress. … Ensure your intensive care unit (ICU) has an overarching protocolized approach to daily ICU patient management … Ensure your ICU has a protocolized approach for the appropriate use of noninvasive ventilation. … Ensure your ICU has a protocolized approach for using subglottic secretion drainage endotracheal tubes … Ensure infection control reports of ventilator-associated event (VAE) rates are reviewed with unit staff

19. The Future of Pediatric Diagnostic Safety Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2023 - clinical and health services research in the portfolios of pediatric research collaborative groups to ensure … Likewise, subspecialty-specific pediatric professional societies and medical journals should ensure that … They must also ensure that pediatric-specific projects are well represented. … whom are parents and family members of children affected by diagnostic error) with investigators to ensure … Finally, to ensure the continued growth and development of the field, investments are needed in research

20. Central Venous Catheter Insertion Bundle Facilitator Notes (doc file)
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    April 01, 2022 - review supplies necessary for aseptic insertion of a central venous catheter—a CVC—and strategies to ensure … So, we will focus on “Step 1, Ensure Aseptic Placement,” which is a critical part of this lifecycle. … It is often difficult to ensure that essential supplies are always available in busy ICUs. … It also might be the case that there is not adequate staffing to ensure that a trained “observer” is … Each unit should designate a person to maintain CVC insertion supplies and ensure all staff have easy