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5521. 034-Ss-Action-Chart-Decisionmaking-Readiness (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/034-ss-action-chart-decisionmaking-readiness.docx
      April 01, 2025 - stakeholders can help develop a shared understanding of your surgical group’s current status and potential for improvement … chief nursing officer, director of infection control and prevention, pharmacy, and director of quality improvement

5522. Preparing for Ambulatory Computerized Prescriber Order Entry by Evaluating Preimplementation Medication Errors (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Devine.pdf
      July 01, 2003 - physicians and pharmacists lead the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and are members of the Quality Improvement … A report of the Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine.

5523. Introducing a Protocol To Obtain Patient Comments Using the CAHPS® Clinician & Group Survey (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-webinar-jan-2017-transcript.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - Rabson, Slide 45 So, MHQP is a regional health improvement collaborative. … We have two decades of bringing together patients, providers, health plans to drive improvement and … And then, also, helping providers integrate these patient narratives effectively into quality improvement

5524. Making Information Technology a Team Player in Safety: The Case of Infusion Devices (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Nemeth.pdf
      January 01, 2002 - Making Information Technology a Team Player in Safety: The Case of Infusion Devices 319 Making Information Technology a Team Player in Safety: The Case of Infusion Devices Christopher Nemeth, Mark Nunnally, Michael O’Connor, P. Allan Klock, Richard Cook Abstract Objective: To fulfill the promise of infor…

5525. A-22. Measure 19: Connection to resource (Continuity of Care Practices Survey – Practice Level [CCPS-P]) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/chronic-care/ccrm-atlas-suppl/ccrm-apptabA-22.html
      October 01, 2013 - Potential Measures for Clinical-Community Relationships A-22. Measure 19: Connection to resource (Continuity of Care Practices Survey – Practice Level [CCPS-P]) Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Potential Measures for Clinical-Community Relationships Acknowledgements Executive Summary …

5526. CHIPRA 119 Section 5, Literature Review and Discussion (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-119-section-5-lit-review.pdf
      March 19, 2012 - Accurate measurement of temperature helps to manage hypothermia; however it is not correlated with improvement … Use of WHO criteria could guide the need for quality improvement projects targeted toward the most vulnerable … There was no improvement on the older infants 27-29 weeks. … Warming led to improvement in neonatal physiologic parameters in two of 4 studies. Holland, B. … Temperature monitoring on admission and during transport should be done as part of quality of care during

5527. Table 3: Health Care Coverage Among Persons Who Used Health Services During Fiscal Year 2010. All Project Sites. Fiscal Year 2010. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/ihs/chap5tab3.html
      December 01, 2017 - Table 3: Health Care Coverage Among Persons Who Used Health Services During Fiscal Year 2010. All Project Sites. Fiscal Year 2010. ARRA Grants Initiative Findings from a set of 16 grants on improving delivery systems and on spreading evidence-based practices through delivery systems; recommendations and metho…

5528. 4 Tk1 T3-Not All Infections Need Antibiotics- Final (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK1_T3-Not_all_Infections_need_antibiotics-_final.pdf
      May 01, 2014 - How to enter Data Manually Into an Antibiogram Template Advancing Excellence in Health Care www.ahrq.gov Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Not All “Infections” Need Antibiotics! What is the UTI SBAR form? What does it include? • The Suspected Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Situation, Background, Ass…

5529. Understand the Science of Safety Module Alternate Text | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/understand/alt-text.html
      July 01, 2018 - Understand the Science of Safety Module Alternate Text Slide Number and Title Slide Content Content for Alternative Text (Illustration) Slide 1 Cover Slide (CUSP Toolkit logo) The "Understand the Science of Safety" module of the CUSP Toolkit. The CUSP toolkit is a modular approach to pat…

5530. Patient-Community Resource Relationships | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/chronic-care/ccrm-atlas-suppl/ccrm-atlas3-6.html
      October 01, 2013 - Potential Measures for Clinical-Community Relationships Patient-Community Resource Relationships Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Potential Measures for Clinical-Community Relationships Acknowledgements Executive Summary Introduction Potential Measure Development Methodology Poten…

5531. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: User's Guide (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/hospital-user-guide.pdf
      July 01, 2018 - AHRQ is the lead Federal agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of … health care, reduce its cost, address patient safety and medical errors, and broaden access to essential … and clinicians, health system leaders, and policymakers—make more informed decisions and improve the quality … of health care services. … Organizational Learning—Continuous Improvement Mistakes have led to positive changes and changes are

5532. Using ICD-9-CM Codes in Hospital Claims Data to Detect Adverse Events in Patient Safety Surveillance (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Hougland_26.pdf
      October 01, 2011 - ulcers—a problem in both long-term care facilities and hospitals and a frequent target of quality improvement … These codes may greatly facilitate evaluation of the need for, and efficacy of, a targeted quality improvement

5533. Final Progress Report: EHR-Based Medication Complete Communication Strategy to Promote Safe Opioid Use (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/mccarthy-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Although the label was not implemented with high fidelity, the changes that were made resulted in an improvement

5534. Implementation Quick Start Guide: Warm Handoff (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/warmhandoff-quickstartfull.pdf
      January 27, 2017 - Implementation Quick Start Guide: Warm Handoff Implementation Quick Start Guide Warm Handoff The Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families Implementation Quick Start Guide: Warm Handoff | III Table of Contents What Is a Warm Handoff? .......................…

5535. Paul Tedrick (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/mindfulness-transcript.doc
      June 10, 2014 - is the Associate Director for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs in the Division of Healthcare … Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is board-certified in infectious … We know that there’s a lot of room for improvement of prescribing antibiotic use, and an particular, … But this simple educational intervention resulted in a significant improvement; a decrease in the number … highlight here is while our results were statically significant, there was still a lot of room for improvement

5536. Analyzing CAHPS Survey Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/helpful-resources/analysis/index.html
      July 01, 2025 - Analyzing CAHPS Survey Data Users of CAHPS surveys may take a few different approaches to analyzing their data to generate results that can be reported to healthcare providers, administrators, and consumers. The CAHPS team supports users in conducting their analyses of the closed-ended surveys by developing and…

5537. Final Progress Report: Implementing Reduced Work Hours for All House Staff To Improve Patient Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/landrigan2-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - implemented a schedule that resulted in a 40% decrease in patrol car crashes by police officers and 29% improvement … Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement 1998;24(2):77-87.

5538. CLABSI Investigation Process: Walk the Process (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/clabsi-invest.html
      April 01, 2013 - that provider on board and try to figure out what were the areas that needed additional training or improvement … you are 100 percent compliant with all of those basic recommendations and you are seeing little or no improvement … I totally understand for the purposes of performance improvement that it’s important to trace back to … Shelby Lassiter: For performance improvement, it’s critical to know where those lines are being placed

5539. Final Progress Report: Prescribing Errors in Ambulatory Pediatric Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/basco-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Prescribing Errors in Ambulatory Pediatric Care Title of Project: Prescribing Errors in Ambulatory Pediatric Care Principal Investigator and Team Members: Basco, William T. = PI Simpson, Kit = Mentor Hulsey, Thomas = Mentor, Director of Masters Degree Program Ebeling, Myla = Co-investig…

5540. CAHPS Surgical Care Survey (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/surgical/surgical-eng20-1451a.pdf
      October 01, 2011 - CAHPS Surgical Care Survey CAHPS® Surgical Care Survey Version: 2.0 Population: Adult Language: English For assistance with this survey, please contact the CAHPS Help Line at 800-492-9261 or cahps1@westat.com. File name: surgical-eng20-1451a.docx Last updated: October 1, 2011 mailto:cahps1@westat.com C…