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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. More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions (pdf file)
   www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/dataspotlight-health-literacy.pdf
   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

3. Care for the Caregiver Program Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/modules/guide6.html
   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. 

4. Managing a CAHPS Survey Project | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/helpful-resources/managing/index.html
   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

5. 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

6. Asking the Hard Questions About Telehealth | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/hard-questions-about-telehealth.html
   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

7. Preventing Infections in Endoscopic Procedures (pdf file)
   www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/appendix-m.pdf
   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

8. Chapter 1. Environmental Scan | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/environmental-scan-programs/envscan-program1.html
   April 01, 2018 - explored the results from a variety of search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Bing, and others to ensure … Determine Inclusion Once a program was identified, we then applied a set of inclusion criteria to ensure … To ensure the above criteria were applied properly, researchers conducted a pilot test using five patient … To ensure that the inclusion criteria would be applied consistently, AIR conducted a frame-of-reference … training with all researchers to ensure a shared mental model of appropriate criteria application.

9. About TeamSTEPPS 2.0 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2019 - The key objective is to ensure opportunities exist to implement the tools and strategies taught, practice … Ensure leaders emphasize new skills. … The goal is for leaders to engage in activities that will ensure continuous involvement in teamwork. … It is useful to ensure that measurement of pretraining factors is parallel with post-training factors … The change team should determine when organizational needs have changed and ensure the sustainment plan

10. CUSP Toolkit, The Role of the Nurse Manager, Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2012 - As part of their administrative duties, nurse managers can ensure the unit has the resources it needs … When hiring staff, nurse managers ensure the unit's staffing needs are met in the most economical way … Customer Focus Say: Nurse managers ensure the care delivered on their unit is customer focused. … By engaging these customers, nurse managers ensure the unit is able to deliver the highest quality of … Staffing costs Nurse managers ensure staffing costs remain within the budgeted amounts.

11. TeamSTEPPS Pocket Guide (pdf file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/teamstepps-pocket-guide.pdf
    May 01, 2023 - Communication Page 6 Closed-Loop Communication Using verbal feedback to ensure that messages … Monitoring and Modifying the Plan y Huddle—Ad hoc meeting to ensure continual progression of care … team outcome): Results from each team member maintaining situation awareness and communicating to ensure … that could alter the plan of care Uses STAR to prevent skill-based errors Fosters communication to ensure … that could alter the plan of care Uses STAR to prevent skill-based errors Fosters communication to ensure

12. Memo from the Director: Equal Employment Opportunity and EEO Complaints Process (pdf file)
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    March 27, 2023 - Such efforts will ensure the integrity of our mission at AHRQ by affording our highly talented employees … Harassment As the Director of AHRQ, I have made it my priority to ensure that AHRQ employees, contract … The official who receives such harassment claims will ensure the confidentiality of the individual making … Supervisors and managers bear a special responsibility to ensure that the work environment is free from

13. Investing in Primary Care to Ensure High-Quality Care for All Americans | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2021 - Home News Blog AHRQ Views Investing in Primary Care to Ensure … Events AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders Investing in Primary Care to Ensure … 2021 Page originally created July 2021 Internet Citation: Investing in Primary Care to Ensure

14. Pocket Guide: TeamSTEPPS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2020 - Nurse:           "BP is 96/62" Check-Back Using closed-loop communication to ensure that information … Sender double-checks to ensure that the message was received. … statement is ignored: It is your responsibility to assertively voice concern at least two times to ensure … Monitors fellow team members to ensure safety and prevent errors. … Fosters communication to ensure a shared mental model.

15. Grant Application Peer Review Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2015 - Process Grant applications submitted to AHRQ are evaluated by the AHRQ peer review process to ensure … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will be evaluated by AHRQ peer review process to ensure

16. Implementation Coaching | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/implement/activity/coach.html
    June 01, 2023 - Coaching, however, continues even after content or skill mastery to ensure sustainability. … Coaches will help ensure that team members understand teamwork concepts and that they are appropriately … Over the longer term of your implementation, coaches should continue to monitor teamwork behaviors to ensure … Similarly, coaches should ask questions to try to understand team members’ point of view and to ensure … Ensure that identified coaches have the support of leadership and are highly respected among staff.

17. Appendix M. Endoscopy Infographic - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/app-m.html
    May 01, 2017 - Ensure appropriate personal protective equipment is worn at all times and that the reprocessing room … Perform leak testing before manual cleaning to ensure the scope does not leak by using a wet or dry … Ensure use of proper connectors between scope and automatic 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. TeamSTEPPS® for Office-Based Care - Team Performance Observation Tool (pdf file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/teamstepps/officebasedcare/handouts/tmpot.pdf
    December 09, 2015 - Monitors fellow team members to ensure safety and prevent errors c. … Fosters communication to ensure team members have a shared mental model Comments: Overall Rating

19. National Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety Webinar Series (pdf file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/CMS-Aug-23-board-session.pdf
    August 22, 2023 - The hospital’s governing body must ensure that the program reflects the complexity of the organization … The board oversight of contract employees to ensure they have/are part of QAPI efforts where appropriate … Board evaluates management’s summary of incident reporting trends and timeliness to ensure transparency … Board evaluates senior leaders’ summary of metrics to ensure physician and staff ability to care for … and inform the board of their operational approach to quality, improvement and performance and to ensure

20. Grantee Guidance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/research/publications/pubcomguide/granteeguide.html
    November 01, 2021 - The product will be tested to ensure it is error free and achieves the original objective of the project … websites must prominently display a privacy policy notice on the home page, and the website host must ensure … Linking Grantees should perform a risk assessment of proposed external links to ensure that those links … Once links are established, they should be reassessed periodically to ensure that they are still valid … delineates intended audiences and uses, the scope and limitations of the content provided, efforts to ensure