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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/situ/sim-tool-guidance.html
July 01, 2023 - Facilitation Instructions for Conducting In Situ Simulations
AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care
Purpose of the tool: Simulation provides opportunities to practice teamwork and clinical skills and strategies in a safe learning environment and, through practice and feedback, acquire teamwork …
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/healthit-ed-6.html
February 01, 2021 - Health Information Technology for Engaging Patients in Diagnostic Decision Making in Emergency Departments
Future Directions and Research Priorities
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Table of Contents
Health Information Technology for Engaging Patients in Diagnostic Decision Making in Emergency Departments
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/helpful-resources/hiring/index.html
December 01, 2018 - Hiring a Vendor for a CAHPS Survey
Users of CAHPS surveys of patient experience typically seek out and contract with a survey vendor to administer the survey and sometimes to analyze and report the results. Unless specified by an external organization, the use of survey vendors is recommended but not required. …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/perinatal-care-2/hypertension_7-implementation.pptx
July 01, 2023 - Implementing the SPPC-II Teamwork Toolkit - PowerPoint Presentation
Implementing the
SPPC-II Teamwork Toolkit
Module 7 of 8
SPPC-II
Toolkit
AHRQ Pub. No. 23-0046
July 2023
Hospital AIM Team
Leads
SPPC-II
SCRIPT
Welcome to Module 7 of the SPPC-II Teamwork Toolkit. In this module, we’ll discuss tactics and plannin…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/perinatal-care-2/hemorrhage_7-implementation.pptx
July 01, 2023 - Implementing the _x000b_SPPC-II Teamwork Toolkit - PowerPoint Presentation
Implementing the
SPPC-II Teamwork Toolkit
Module 7 of 8
SPPC-II
Toolkit
AHRQ Pub. No. 23-0046
July 2023
Hospital AIM Team
Leads
SPPC-II
SCRIPT
Welcome to Module 7 of the SPPC-II Teamwork Toolkit. In this module, we’ll discuss tactics and …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/ed-boarding-summit-report.pdf
March 01, 2025 - Establishing such a regional health data system would require developing clear
operational definitions, ensuring … that data would be adequate to support decision-making,
and ensuring that data would be updated frequently … • Long-term care leaders, who are essential for ensuring the smooth discharge of
patients to nursing … state
agencies, patient advocacy groups, physicians, nurses, social workers, patients, and
others, ensuring
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/choosing.html
April 01, 2018 - Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families
Choosing the Right Intervention for Your Practice
Selecting the right information for your practice’s needs is an important first step in implementation process. The information below describes how each strategy may …
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldataapg.html
May 01, 2018 - Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement
G. Kaiser Permanente: Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information
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Table of Contents
Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/028-randomly-order-rooms-surfaces.docx
October 01, 2024 - How To Randomly Order Lists of Rooms and High-Touch Surfaces
ICU & Non-ICU
Read the Evaluating Environmental Cleaning document before you proceed with your randomization process.
A systematic way to pick rooms for fluorescent gel (FG) placement is important, to ensure every room has an equal chance of selection and to…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pcor/pcortf-strategic-framework.pdf
June 01, 2023 - critical questions
through its PCORTF mechanisms and other partnerships to pursue our mission of
ensuring … within health systems) to promote equity,
including by offering culturally appropriate patient care, ensuring … assessment of the strengths or limitations of the evidence with regards to priority
populations, and ensuring … evaluation efforts by specifying intended
outcomes, identifying existing measures and data sources, and ensuring
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/learn-from-defects-facguide.docx
January 01, 2017 - Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle
Slide Title and Commentary
Slide Number and Slide
Title Slide
Learning From Defects in Care of Mechanically Ventilated Patients
SAY:
In this module, we will discuss the Learning From Defects tool. It is a very useful process that enables frontline staff to ident…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/nursing-protocols/nursing-chg-bed-bathing.pdf
March 01, 2022 - Standardized Nursing Protocol: Bed Bathing With 2% Chlorhexidine (CHG) No-Rinse Bathing Cloths and Showering With 4% CHG Liquid Soap
Decolonization of
Non-ICU Patients With Devices
Section 9-1 – Standardized Nursing Protocol:
Bed Bathing With 2% Chlorhexidine (CHG) No-Rinse
Bathing Cloths and Showering
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/teachback.html
February 01, 2023 - Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families
Teach-Back
“I've been doing this [primary care] for a long time and didn't realize a lot of things are not heard. Teach-back is a wonderful idea; we think we're getting our message across and obviously we are not.” …
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/education-dx-outcomes-1.html
March 01, 2022 - Improving Education—A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes
Introduction
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Table of Contents
Improving Education—A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes
Introduction
Foundations of Diagnosis Education
Current State of Diagnosis Education
Competencies To Improve Diagnosis in Hea…
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/promote/why-promote.html
December 01, 2022 - Why Promote a Health Care Quality Report to Consumers?
Among report sponsors and researchers in the field of quality reporting, a general consensus has emerged that:
The primary audience for public quality reports is health care consumers or, more often, a strategically chosen subset of those consumers.
A…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2020-11-nac/nacmtg111020-minutes.html
March 01, 2021 - Ensuring that staffs have knowledge, skills, and confidence to implement best-practice safety measures … strategic framework to guide its work, of investing in infrastructure, of establishing governance, and of ensuring
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/team/tools/debrief.html
December 01, 2023 - Reviewing the Team's Performance: Debrief
Research has shown that teams that effectively debrief their own performance can improve their teamwork in real time. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 Although it is often difficult to find time for such reviews in healthcare, TeamSTEPPS advocates for after-action reviews; TeamSTEPPS ch…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/055-guide-nursing-practice.docx
October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
Decolonization Nursing Practice Guide
Use this guide to help ensure that all nursing practice procedures and leadership support are in place to actively support the decolonization intervention.
Engagement & Collaboration
Determine Which Patients Need Treatment
CHG Bath Docume…
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/otherwebsites/healthit.ahrq.gov/index.html
November 01, 2024 - AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program
AHRQ's digital healthcare initiative is part of the Nation's strategy to put information technology to work in healthcare. By making health information available electronically when and where it is needed, digital healthcare can improve the quality of care, even as it …
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/about/index.html
December 01, 2023 - About AHRQ's Nursing Home Network
The AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network—a partnership among AHRQ, the University of New Mexico's ECHO Institute and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)—provided free training and mentorship to nursing homes across the country to increase the imple…