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61. Incorporating Infection Prevention and Control into an Emergency Preparedness Plan (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2022 - of infectious diseases), and residents who are away from the facility (e.g., medical appointment, family … • The communication plan records current contact information for residents, family members, caregivers … • Sample Disaster Preparedness Letter to Families Sample letter nursing home administrators may use … to communicate with families to request updated emergency contact information as part of the facility … infectious diseases that have the potential to pose a significant public health threat to residents, families

62. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2020 - In some practices, patients and patients’ family members have been productive members of the QI Team. … Support patient and family engagement in their own evidence-based care Clinicians and other team members … members or friends with them. … More advanced practices can integrate patients and family members into their quality improvement teams … Another advanced strategy for partnering with patients and families is forming a Patient and Family Advisory

63. Spotlight on Massachusetts -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
    www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-massachusetts-state-snapshot.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - the role of families as improvement partners. … • Developed resources to help practices and families improve care coordination. … Resources are available online: Family Engagement Guide (http:// www.nichq.org/resource/family-engagement-guide-role-family … http://www.nichq.org/resource/family-engagement-guide-role-family-health-partners-quality-improvement-within-pediatric … http://www.nichq.org/resource/family-engagement-guide-role-family-health-partners-quality-improvement-within-pediatric

64. Using Patient Input to Improve Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2022 - Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, who is creating a shared language that encourages patients and families … “But patients and families describe diagnostic breakdowns using different words and concepts, including … With input from patients, families, clinicians, and experts in diagnostic safety, Dr. … Funded by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, this study found that patients and families who … the foresight to fund research at the intersection of health information transparency, patient and family

65. Equity Focus Recommended in Development and Use of Algorithms in Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - Family-Observed Quality and Safety Concerns Can Improve Hospital Care for Children With Medical Complexity … Family-Observed Quality and Safety Concerns Can Improve Hospital Care for Children With Medical Complexity … identify what their families saw as priorities for improving the safety and quality of care. … Researchers concluded that soliciting and listening to patient/family expertise can improve the patient … /family care experience and increase trust in providers and hospital systems.

66. Module 7: Resolution | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2022 - In the CANDOR process, open and transparent communication with patients and families supports the patient … Some organizations choose to involve patients/families in some manner in the event analysis process. … Patients and family members, just like clinicians and other staff, have a desire to ensure that other … patients and families do not experience similar harm events. … However, patients and/or families frequently want to feel they are part of the improvement process.

67. Module 4: Teamwork and Communication: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - members. … members. … words in the language the resident and family members understand best. … and a certified nurse's assistant engaging a family member in conversation around the family member's … Does the family member understand what is being said?

68. Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training for Health Care Professionals Audio Script | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - members or friends. … Do not defer to the patient's wishes that friends or family members interpret for you. … The patient has a right to have a friend of family member interpret for them. … So instead of deferring to a patient's wish that friends or family members interpret, have both interpreters … You can start doing this by encouraging your patients to have a trusted family member or friend with

69. Patient Education and Engagement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - However, materials are frequently difficult for patients and families to understand. … The Be Prepared To Be Engaged strategy encourages patients and their families to prepare for and become … The goal is to help patients and families set their visit agenda and to be ready, speak up, and ask questions … literacy strategy to ensure that you have explained information clearly so that patients and their families … Their Medicine: Tool #16   Get Patient Feedback: Tool #17 The Health Literacy and Patient and Family

70. Patient Involvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2016 - Patients and families who engage with health care providers ask good questions and help reduce the risk … & Clinician Videos Tips & Tools Additional Resources Engaging Patients and Families … in Care Use these free resources to help patients and their families get the best care possible. … Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety Learn more about patient and family … engagement and how hospitals can work as partners with patients and families to improve quality and

71. Discharge Instructions Quality: How the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital Improved their Electronic Template for Family/ Caregiver Written Discharge Instructions (pdf file)
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    January 29, 2021 - Discharge Instructions Quality: How the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital Improved … of their discharge instructions for families during the course of the twelve-month P-HIP Learning … discharge instructions improvement effort, brought about by a strategic goal to improve care for families … , and the team was eager to support the hospital-wide goal of improving discharge instructions for families … this doesn’t technically meet the measure for abstraction, it provides important information to the families

72. NAC Member Biography: Sinsi Hernández-Cancio | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Vice President for Health Justice National Partnership for Women & Families Sinsi Hernández-Cancio … , J.D. , is vice president for health justice, at the National Partnership for Women & Families. … the government, labor, and non-profit arenas, dedicated to advancing equal opportunity for women and families … provides excellent, comprehensive, culturally centered, and affordable care for every single person, family … Contact Information: Vice President for Health Justice National Partnership for Women and Families

73. State at a Glance: Massachusetts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2019 - The State also will develop and produce reports on the core measures for families to inform them about … The State will gather information from both English- and Spanish- speaking families about the usefulness … consisting of a practice transformation facilitator, senior leader, a provider champion, and one to two family … team for the CHIPRA demonstration is gathering qualitative and quantitative data from practices and families … CHQC convenes a broad set of stakeholders including primary care and specialist providers, parent and family

74. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 3) (doc file)
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    January 01, 2010 - Tool 3) Strategy 4: IDEAL Discharge Planning (Tool 3) Improving Discharge Outcomes with Patients and Families … Strategy 1: Working with Patients & Families as Advisors [Type text] [Type text] [Type text] Strategy … and Family Engagement :: 1 Evidence for engaging patients and families in discharge planning Nearly … Hospital discharge planning for frail older people and their family. … Quality’s Transitions from Hospital to Home: IDEAL Discharge Planning process to engage patients and families

75. Quality Improvement Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2021 - Offer resources to facilitate youth and families in accessing services. … Family Training Materials Provide training and materials to help clinicians educate and support families … Level Family/ Youth Organizations Make connections with family and youth run organizations to provide … Family Training Incentives Support and incentivize participation in family training. … Provide education to youth and families via case management.

76. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies (pdf file)
    www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/key_drivers_descriptions.pdf
    February 01, 2019 - In some practices, patients and patients’ family members have been productive members of the QI Team … Successful patient and family engagement also involves checking understanding, eliciting values and … members or friends with them. … More advanced practices can integrate patients and family members into their quality improvement teams … Another advanced strategy for partnering with patients and families is forming a Patient and Family

77. Challenges and Opportunities in Home Health Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2022 - Respect for the patient and the family under this circumstance is critical. … To ensure this trust, patients and their families must be involved in selecting and designing what is … For example, what training and support do patients and their families receive to help them manage care … Do patients and their families get guidance about obtaining the necessary equipment or how to use it? … Do patients and their families understand medication regimens and administration? 

78. Spotlight on Maryland -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
    www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-maryland-state-snapshot.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - with families of children and youth served in the CMEs. … Maryland identified funding for crisis response and family support Youth served by CMEs and their families … rely on crisis response and family support services. … Through family support programs, trained families of youth with complex behavioral health needs provide … focus groups with families to catalog existing services, understand family experiences related to these

79. Appendix K. Infographic Poster on CAUTI Prevention (pdf file)
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    October 05, 2015 - Patients and families should be instructed not to empty the drainage bag or to move it above the … Engage patients and their families in decision making about catheters. … Educate patients and families about the need for the catheter based on indication. … immobilization for trauma or surgery Chronic indwelling urinary catheter on admission Encourage family … members to ask physicians daily about the catheter’s necessity.

80. Impguide2 (pdf file)
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    September 08, 2015 - Family voice and choice. … Planning is grounded in family members’ perspectives, and the team strives to provide options and choices … members’ networks of interpersonal and community relationships. … Youth and family outcomes • Youth and family functioning. • Youth and family empowerment. … • Youth and Families .