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  1. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/precautions/guide/spoken.html
    September 01, 2020 - for Using the Assessment Results Assessment results are intended to help your practice members set goals … As such, these assessments can be repeated as often as necessary until personal goals have been reached … The goal is to make teach-back a routine and consistent method used by all members of your practice. … Tool 7: Improve Telephone Access The goal of this tool is to help practices manage their telephone … Plans Recognize the importance of the patient's cultural background and environment when negotiating goals
  2. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/natlhacratereport-rebaselining2014-2016_0.pdf
    January 01, 2016 - Projected goals for 2019 based on 2014 HAC rate baseline HAC 2014 Baseline 2019 Goal (20% Reduction) … HAC rates for 2014, 2015, and 2016 (preliminary), with 2019 goals Hospital-Acquired Condition 2014 … Using the unrounded rate for 2014 would have led to the 2019 goal rounding to 79 and the 2019 goal seeming … averted associated with meeting the HAC reduction goals 2019 Goal (20% Reduction in Annual 2015 … Goal 2016 Goal 2017 Goal 2018 Goal HACs) Annual HAC Reductions From 2014 -126,000 -246,000 -361,000
  3. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/teamstepps/instructor/fundamentals/module2/ebteamstruct.pdf
    January 01, 2012 - individuals who interact dynamically, interdependently, and adaptively toward a common and valued goal … MTSs are a collection of two or more teams that work interdependently toward a common goal.1 These teams … work toward at least one shared goal, in addition to achieving individual team goals. … they also rely on effective planning for coordination critical to synchronizing actions to achieve goals … of core, coordinating, and contingency teams emphasize.7 In summary, by sharing an overall common goal
  4. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/hand-hygiene-audit-tool-userguide.pdf
    April 01, 2021 - observational-audits.pdf 2 Entering Monthly Data 1) Instructions tab – setting the timeframe and goal … Tracking Start Date – the month and the year that you are beginning to enter observational audit data. • Goal … Compliance Rate – the hand hygiene compliance goal your facility has established. … If an employee met the goal, the cell may remain blank. … number of failures per audit and the hand hygiene compliance rate comparison to the overall compliance goal
  5. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-jul2023.pdf
    November 03, 2023 - Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare July Meeting Summary Workgroup Goal … The goal will be to reduce missed and delayed diagnoses for severe hypercholesterolemia and increase … One way to achieve this goal is to expand access to accurate and innovative diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals … reporter.nih.gov/search/qeXFKphQ_U-h2vjDc7dEuQ/project-details/10587766 Federal Interagency Workgroup Workgroup Goal
  6. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/fl.html
    March 01, 2019 - will ensure that ongoing statewide health information exchange (HIE) and health IT efforts support the goal … Florida will collect, assess, and report on the quality measures four times during the project, with the goal … Under this category, activities will be statewide, with a long-term goal of linking providers to HIE
  7. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/index.html
    April 01, 2022 - Change Advancing Heart Health Research and Results: What We've Learned The goal … The second goal of EvidenceNOW is to improve primary care practices' capacity for implementing evidence … EvidenceNOW will use two separate measures of practice capacity to understand if this goal was achieved
  8. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/health-literacy-objectives.html
    October 01, 2021 - Improving health literacy is a goal in the United States and around the world. … In the United States, health literacy is a  foundational principle and overarching goal of Healthy People … Healthcare providers can help the U.S. reach its goal for the first objective by using the teach-back
  9. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/EvidenceNOW-BSC-MI-profile.pdf
    September 01, 2021 - The goal is to catalyze the development of a sustainable, state-based external primary care quality … Goal Healthy Hearts for Michigan (HH4M) will expand, build on, and help secure important primary care … Published September 2021 Michigan Cooperative Background Goal Aims Approach Evaluation Notable
  10. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-31-facilitating-panel-management.pdf
    September 01, 2015 - How often should HbA1c be measured if the patient is at goal? And if not at goal? 7. … How often should BP be measured if the patient is at goal? And if not at goal? 10. … How often should LDL be measured if a diabetic patient is at LDL goal? And if not at LDL goal? … HbA1c Every 3 months if not at goal HbA1c < 7% Frail patients: HbA1c < 8%Every 6 months if at goal … 6 months if at goal LDL Every 3 months if not at goal Diabetics and/or CHD: LDL < 100 All other: LDL
  11. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/officebasedcare/impworkbook.html
    December 01, 2015 - State at least one team process aim : A team process aim states your goal for how well your staff … Examples include (a) a goal for how often your staff will use the intervention team tool (e.g., brief … , SBAR, I PASS the BATON) or (b) a goal for how many staff members will receive medical team training … It states your goal for improvements in your staff's team performance. … The clinical outcome aim is your goal for improvements in clinical results due to improved team performance
  12. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/2014FinalHACreport4Web-13Dec2016.pdf
    December 01, 2016 - For each HAC, the incidence, preventability, cost, and additional mortality were assessed and a goal … Also shown is the estimate that, if 44 percent were considered preventable, the overall PfP goal to … Estimates, Goals, and Projections for HACs at the Launch of PfP initiative in 2011 PfP Hospital- Acquired … National Incidence of HACs (2010) Estimated HAC Preventability as of 2010/2011 PfP Goal … (Preventability x Goal) PfP HAC Reduction Goal (Fewer HACs in 2014* vs. 2010 Baseline)
  13. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/gilmerstudysnapshot.pdf
    April 01, 2015 - The goal was to understand whether the MHSA has resulted in the uniform development of FSPs characterized … The study authors compared FSP practices to a benchmark program that shares similar goals, vision, and … By contrast, their peers in low- fidelity programs tend to emphasize other goals (such as cost savings … describe clients as “underserved” and highlight improvement in their quality of life as the primary goal … tend to describe clients as “high utilizers” of services and make managing utilization the primary goal
  14. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/flstateataglance.pdf
    March 01, 2012 - ensure that ongoing statewide health information exchange (HIE) and health IT efforts support the goal … Florida will collect, assess, and report on the quality measures four times during the project, with the goal … Under this category, activities will be statewide, with a long‐ term goal of linking providers to HIE
  15. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-intro-qi.pdf
    May 18, 2021 -  Set goals.  Develop a plan that specifies: o what changes the practice will make. … Primary Care Practice Facilitator Training Series 2 Aligning QI Work with Practices’ GoalsGoals of primary care practices typically fall into three categories:  Improving quality of patient … representations of how multiple changes build upon each other to get a practice to reach a particular goal … strategies and activities they believe or that the evidence tells them will help them reach a particular goal
  16. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/qi-knowledge-survey.pdf
    March 03, 2021 - manufacturing (often combined with Lean when a key goal is to reduce waste and errors). … Writing a clear, actionable target goal or aim statement Distinguishing measurement for improvement
  17. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patients-consumers/patient-involvement/ask-your-doctor/tips-and-tools/clinicianad1.pdf
    September 09, 2011 - "What are our goals for today?" Ask your patients about their health priorities at each visit. … For tools and tips to share with your patients, visit www.ahrq.gov/questions “WHAT ARE OUR GOALS FOR
  18. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/nursing/nursing-notes.html
    December 01, 2012 - communication and comprehension between the two groups to move the unit toward the hospital's strategic goal … Strategic goal achievement. … with the hospital's strategic goalsgoals with the hospital's goals. … and measuring progress toward goal achievement.
  19. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/public-notes-meeting-summary-031121.pdf
    July 22, 2021 - Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Health Care Workgroup Goal … Future goal is to align the platform with AHRQ’s Common Formats for Event Reporting.
  20. www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/teamstepps/officebasedcare/impworkbook.pdf
    December 11, 2015 - State at least one team process aim: A team process aim states your goal for how well your staff will … Examples include (a) a goal for how often your staff will use the intervention team tool (e.g., brief … , SBAR, I PASS the BATON) or (b) a goal for how many staff members will receive medical team training … It states your goal for improvements in your staff’s team performance. … The clinical outcome aim is your goal for improvements in clinical results due to improved team performance

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