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201. DOD and VA Health Care: Medication Needs During Transitions May Not Be Managed for All Servicemembers. | PSNet
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     December 09, 2020 - This government report reveals the need for a policy to ensure that veterans' medication needs are … September 7, 2016 Drug Shortages: Public Health Threat Continues, Despite Efforts to Help Ensure

202. Readmissions and Adverse Events After Discharge | PSNet
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     April 27, 2022 - , 2024 PSNet primers are regularly reviewed and updated by the UC Davis PSNet Editorial Team to ensure … Even if communication between providers is timely and accurate, and appropriate steps are taken to ensure … prior to discharge: Medication reconciliation : The patient's medications must be cross-checked to ensure … that no chronic medications were stopped and to ensure the safety of new prescriptions.  … No consensus exists on how to ensure patient safety after hospital discharge, but some evidence indicates

203. Missouri Quality Initiative (MOQI) Reduces Hospitalizations Among Nursing Home Residents | PSNet
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     July 23, 2024 - model and lessons learned from the initiative were transferred to NewPath Health Solutions, LLC, to ensure … five days per week. 2 However, experts recommend nursing homes go beyond these minimum standards to ensure … to enact advance directives, 4 and these advance directive documents are reviewed periodically to ensure … This will inform a plan to ensure that all nursing home staff understand any workflow adjustments. … Getting Started with This Innovation When getting started with this innovation, organizations should ensure

204. CUSP Toolkit: The Role of the Nurse Manager | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2012 - Nurse managers ensure that expenses stay within the unit's budget. … Nurse managers ensure that care delivery aligns with the highest quality of care: Understand key … Lead staff training to ensure the safest care for patients. … Ensure staff access to necessary equipment. Return to Contents   Slide 15. … Alignment with Organizational Goals 5 Nurse managers ensure that the unit's daily activities are

205. Impact of short-notice accreditation assessments on hospitals' patient safety and quality culture--a scoping review. | PSNet
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     January 10, 2024 - Healthcare facilities are routinely subjected to accreditation processes to ensure the delivery of … December 2, 2020 Registered nurses' efforts to ensure safety for home-dwelling older

206. ECHO-Care Transitions Successfully Reduces Patient Readmissions from Skilled Nursing Facilities, Reduces Length of Stay | PSNet
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     October 30, 2024 - Innovator Summary ECHO-Care Transitions (ECHO-CT) intends to ensure … interested sites confirm they have the following in place to support successful implementation: Ensure … recommendations. 2 In addition to these findings, ECHO-CT participants noted that they found ECHO-CT helped to ensure … Engaging directly with the executive leadership helps to ensure support. … interested sites confirm they have the following in place to support successful implementation: Ensure

207. Module III: Points of Engagement in the EHC Program (pdf file)
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     May 29, 2025 - Involving stakeholders also helps to ensure that the research reflects the various needs of all diverse … Provide input to develop and prioritize research gaps § Refine Topics & Develop Key Questions § Ensure … The use of key informants during topic refinement helps ensure the subsequent research addresses the … This helps to further ensure a broad range of interests are represented, and that the final products … Experts will be consulted as well to ensure scientific accuracy of translated materials.

208. Final Operations Center Operational Framework (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - The Operations Center is critical to the success of the CDSiC as it will be the Center that will ensure … ■ Associate PD Rina Dhopeshwarkar will ensure that a calendar invitation is disseminated to all … Dullabh and Sittig will ensure minutes are captured at each meeting by NORC or AcademyHealth and notes … ■ The NORC team will ensure email communications to the Steering Committee from the project team … challenges, Dhopeshwarkar will ensure mitigation strategies are in place for the Operations Center.

209. Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2025 - instill the practice of co-designing and co-producing care with patients, families, and care partners to ensure … Workforce Safety: to ensure the safety and resiliency of organizations and workforces as a precondition

210. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2022 - impact; identify key competencies needed to improve diagnostic performance; and describe next steps to ensure … programs (e.g., baccalaureate nursing programs and undergraduate medical education) to efforts that ensure

211. 028-Randomly-Order-Rooms-Surfaces (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - A systematic way to pick rooms for fluorescent gel (FG) placement is important, to ensure every room … This system will ensure that the data are more objective, valid, and representative of overall thoroughness

212. Step 3: Build the Stakeholder Group Structure | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2019 - a charter 11 or similar document outlining the stakeholder group’s vision and priorities can help ensure … Consider using time-limited or rotating positions to ensure a diverse mix of representative stakeholders … If using a cochair system, ensure that each chair represents a different perspective or role within the … To ensure that all stakeholders can participate equally and meaningfully, staff in Massachusetts have … They also work to ensure that families feel empowered to engage in discussions at the meetings.

213. GAO-06-750 Information Security: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Needs to Improve Controls over Key Communication Network (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/library/d06750.pdf
     August 30, 2006 - GAO recommends that the CMS Administrator direct the Chief Information Officer to take steps to ensure … There were also weaknesses in controls that had been designed to ensure that secure configurations would … A key reason for these weaknesses is that CMS did not always ensure that its security policies and … Specifically, CMS did not always ensure that its contractor effectively United States Government … A key reason for these weaknesses is that CMS did not always ensure that its security policies and

214. Mod4-Event-Checklist (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/candor/module4/mod4-event-checklist.pdf
     April 01, 2016 - How to use this tool: Use the checklist to ensure that appropriate action is taken following an adverse … Assess and Inform ■ Ensure the patient is stable, and provide emotional support to the patient/family … ■ Monitor changes to ensure results.

215. Implementation Guide for Automatic Referral: Building, Implementing, and Troubleshooting and Automatic Referral for Cardiac Rehabilitation (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2023 - • Care coordination (CC) activities work in tandem with the AR to ensure the patient reaches CR. … You should include additional scenarios and perhaps adjust some of these scenarios to ensure that the … Key Contacts for this QI Initiative Ensure that someone will always be available to answer questions … • Ensure easy access to training materials. … • Ensure implementation team representation on all shifts.

216. 050-Dec-Implementation-Notes (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - It can assist your planning and ensure you have covered all your bases. … Ensure your staff are familiar with decolonization procedures. … Ensure all six cloths are used. Cloths should not be re-used. … Ensure these areas remain exposed to air until they are fully dry. … Go around each nostril slowly at least three times to ensure full coverage.

217. CUSP: A Framework for Success (Slide Presentation) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Ensure Patients Reliably Receive Evidence Slide 16. Measure Slide 17. What is CUSP? Slide 18. … Ensure all patients get the evidence | Improve Return to Contents   Slide 17. … Checklist to ensure consistent application of evidence. … Ensure unit team has resources to reduce risks. … Ensure staff know policy. Evaluate if policy is used correctly.

218. Please reconcile, not wait a while. | PSNet
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     April 19, 2023 - Medication reconciliation to ensure accuracy of patient medication lists has been difficult to implement … September 9, 2013 A considerative checklist to ensure safe daily patient review.

219. Why patients need leaders: introducing a ward safety checklist. | PSNet
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     October 28, 2020 - This commentary describes the design and implementation of a checklist to ensure daily monitoring of … June 16, 2014 A considerative checklist to ensure safe daily patient review.

220. The Telehealth Transition and Improving Health Systems | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - rapid transition to telehealth due to the COVID-19 pandemic will inform patient care post-COVID-19 to ensure … Telehealth informing patient care post-COVID-19 to ensure equal access and high-quality care Through