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1781. Section 3. Measuring Emergency Department Performance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2020 - Periodic surveillance and audits (stratified by provider) will help ensure creation of accurate data. … abstraction process should be validation: a systematic, random spot check performed by a second abstractor to ensure

1782. Strategy 1: Working with Patients & Families as Advisors (Implementation Handbook) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy1/Strat1_Implement_Hndbook_508_v2.pdf
      January 28, 2011 - The staff liaison’s job is to facilitate partnerships, ensure that advisors are ready to participate … , and ensure that staff are ready to engage in partnerships. … Work with your hospital’s volunteer office as appropriate to ensure that any procedures are followed … It is helpful to stagger membership terms to ensure a balance of new and experienced members. … It is also useful to have a timekeeper to ensure that meetings are productive and stay on track.

1783. Grand Rounds Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2022 - Organizations have quality and safety programs, but many struggle to ensure that solutions to errors … received, the organization that has implemented the CANDOR process will activate the CANDOR system to ensure … Organizational leadership and support for the CANDOR process are key to ensure that it occurs. … environmental strategies for patient monitoring that took into account: Where equipment is placed to ensure

1784. Program Overview: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/on-boarding/overview-fac-notes.html
      December 01, 2017 - We need to learn how to embed this challenging adaptive work into local practice to help ensure our staff … standardize care and incorporate these interventions into local policies, protocols, and checklists to help ensure … unit, or ICU, program was a multifaceted quality-improvement program that included a checklist to help ensure … safety team by educating and communicating with surgeon peers to further the aims of the initiative and ensure

1785. Part 4: CME Design Features | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/implementation-guides/implementation-guide2/implguide2pt4.html
      September 01, 2014 - To help ensure an accurate referral process, States should consider using a standard assessment tool … providers and family and youth supports and (2) an established utilization management process to help ensure … However, the State may have to increase its monitoring and oversight efforts to ensure the CME does not … To ensure that out-of-State organizations are successfully integrated with local providers, a State may … , States using case rates should consider implementing additional reporting and quality controls to ensure

1786. 2. How will we manage change? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Ensure that senior leadership is in agreement with this statement, and make sure that the team has access … Make sure that team members understand why they have been selected, and find ways to ensure that their … Ensure that the team has the information it needs about the scope of the pressure ulcer problem in your … efforts and results, making this project a part of the large QI enterprise in your organization will help ensure … standardized tasks, enable worker empowerment to identify and fix problems, allow problems to be visible, and ensure

1787. Chapter 1: Introduction (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - state-sponsored immunization registries) when those data can be used to target interventions and resources to ensure … Eliminating Health Disparities: Measurement and Data Needs , which recommends actions for HHS to take to ensure … Describing the nomenclature for each variable to ensure that the categories for each contain as valid … Addressing key points of leverage to ensure both patient—provider and system-level improvement. … Measurement cannot ensure the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate care that incorporates

1788. Information to Help Hospitals Get Started (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/How_to_Use_Guide_508.docx
      April 05, 2013 - role in setting the tone for the entire organization.5 Senior leaders (e.g., members of the C-suite) ensure … model behaviors, and mobilize improvement efforts.6–8 Other hospital leaders, such as unit managers, ensure … the Guide strategies to implement, and implementing and evaluating the strategies, it is important to ensure … The multidisciplinary team can help clarify these ideas and ensure that everyone’s perspectives are reflected … Also think about ways to ensure that hospital leaders either sit on the team or are informed about your

1789. Strategy 1: Working with Patients & Families as Advisors (Implementation Handbook) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/Best_Practices_Hosp_Leaders_508.pdf
      March 13, 2013 - family engagement Leaders who explicitly communicate the vision for patient and family engagement help ensure … family-centered practices.(1) At Advocate Trinity Hospital, leaders conducted rounds with patients to ensure … engagement Creating an organizational structure with a place for patient and family engagement helps ensure … giving autonomy to mid-level leaders, such as nurse managers, to implement day-to-day activities helps ensure … descriptions that emphasize patient and family engagement can guide recruitment and hiring processes, ensure

1790. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2020 - allows care team members to create expectations of each other and use clinical information systems to ensure … Nonetheless, the practice should have a process in place to ensure that the practice as a whole is aware … Holding regular meetings, with planned agendas to ensure productive sessions, signals that QI is a practice … partnering with patients and families is forming a Patient and Family Advisory Committee (PFAC) to ensure … Leaders also should ensure that adequate resources are available to implement new evidence, for example

1791. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/key_drivers_descriptions.pdf
      February 01, 2019 - allows care team members to create expectations of each other and use clinical information systems to ensure … Nonetheless, the practice should have a process in place to ensure that the practice as a whole is aware … Holding regular meetings, with planned agendas to ensure productive sessions, signals that QI is a practice … should also regularly compare quality measures to practice-level goals and external benchmarks to ensure … Leaders also should ensure that adequate resources are available to implement new evidence, for example

1792. Team Check-up Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2012 - between incidents on the unit.           5 There are good systems in our unit to ensure

1793. County Health Department in Oregon Launches Performance Improvement Activities With AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - "We worked to maintain the true content of each question, to ensure that the reliability and validity

1794. Pressure Injury Prevention Program Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2017 - Sample Participant Agenda Appendix F: Hospital Practice Insights—Challenges and Solutions To ensure

1795. Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical Environment Module: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/improving-fac-notes.html
      May 01, 2017 - Create mechanisms to cooperate, coordinate, and generate ongoing collaboration ensure that the team … Manage and optimize performance outcomes communicate often and at the right time to ensure that fellow … a Discussion That— Say: Briefings originated in the aviation and nuclear power industries to ensure … as it was actually done, and confirmation of specimen labeling by reading back the patient’s name to ensure … To ensure antibiotics are completely infused, the anesthesia professional must communicate this information

1796. Sustaining Pressure Ulcer Prevention Practices at Your Hospital (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2011 - To ensure that your new practices continue over the long term, you will need to take active steps … routinely. 17 18 What Sustainability Team Can Do • • • • • • Design systems and prompts to ensure

1797. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - New York City Cooperative (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2017 - The goal of this initiative is to ensure that primary care practices have the evidence they need to … professional organizations, policy makers, payers, purchasers, consumer groups, and other stakeholders to ensure

1798. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4y_combo_nqi03-bsi-bestpractices.pdf
      May 17, 2016 - Central lines should also be assessed daily for the presence of infection and to ensure that the dressing … by a nurse, physician, or other health care professional who has received appropriate education to ensure …  Educate the patient, if appropriate, and caregivers about CLABSIs.13  Ensure that the person … ○ Ensure patency of central line by flushing after every central line use.

1799. Strategy 3: Nurse Bedside Shift Report Implementation Handbook (doc file)
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      August 01, 2010 - Nurse Bedside Shift Report strategy The goal of the Nurse Bedside Shift Report strategy is to help ensure … Continue to conduct periodic observations (for example, at 2 and 4 months after the start date) to ensure … Support, monitoring, and education ensure continued success. … To ensure that senior leaders, midlevel managers, and frontline staff were engaged and informed, Trinity … The huddles also provided a way to reinforce aspects of training and ensure that staff were conducting

1800. 3. What Are the Best Practices in Pressure Ulcer Prevention that We Want to Use? (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Documentation of care planning is essential to ensure continuity of care and staff knowledge of what … Ensure that staff appreciate the value of care planning. … Having prompts to update the plan as the patient's condition changes helps ensure that needs will continue