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81. Strategy 4: Care Transitions From Hospital to Home: IDEAL Discharge Planning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety, a tested, evidence-based resource to help … overview of and rationale for the IDEAL Discharge Planning strategy and provides step-by-step guidance to help … Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality Strategy 3: Nurse Bedside Shift Report Information to Help

82. AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2017 - Help doctors and nurses improve quality. … Percent Reduction in Hospital-Acquired Conditions, 2010-2015 (Preliminary) Goal: Help Doctors and … Kelly Court, Wisconsin Hospital Association AHRQ now offers a toolkit to help health providers apply … policymakers work toward finding the best solutions for reforming health care, AHRQ data initiatives help … (Figure 5) State-specific opioid data from HCUP help show where the burdens on hospital care have grown

83. Evaluating the Process of Creating and Promoting a Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - An evaluation of the process you went through to develop, release, and promote your report can help … It is designed to help you learn and improve by answering a number of important questions.

84. Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2018 - This step-by-step guide can help you increase the reliability of the testing process in your office. … The tools will help you examine how tests are managed in your office, from the moment tests are ordered

85. Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Clinicians (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2008 - If unwilling to quit at this time, help motivate the patient: • Identify reasons to quit in a supportive

86. 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 … Additional Resources Engaging Patients and Families in Care Use these free resources to help

87. How to Use the CUSP Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2018 - Targeted Tools How to Use the CUSP Toolkit The CUSP Toolkit can help … Once you’ve learned the basics, add-on modules can help you target certain safety issues.

88. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - About the Toolkit Development The toolkit was developed as part of a 3-year project to help … To address this problem, AHRQ funded a 3-year project to help staff in ICUs use CUSP principles to reduce

89. Timeframe for Application Preparation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Contracts Timeframe for Application Preparation This guide is intended to help … This guide is intended to help you plan the timing of preparation of your grant application.

90. Ventilator-Associated Events and Outcome Measures Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Ventilator-Associated Events and Outcome Measures Module This module has tools and slide sets to help … Measures Guide ( PDF , 945 KB) The Data Measures Guide provides data definitions and equations to help

91. Hospital SOPS Translation Information | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS ® ) to help … This document provides information about the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture to help … For some items, more information (appears in italic font) is provided to help translators convey the … People support one another in this unit. ( More about this item: All staff help one another as needed … When one area in this unit gets really busy, others help out. 2.

92. Getting Intentional About Equity: New Guide Helps Developers and Users of Digital Healthcare Technologies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Putting the Framework Into Practice The new equity guide provides clear implementation steps to help … people affected by a technological innovation can prevent its use by the very people it’s intended to help … organization’s excellent resources (e.g., tools, best practices, and foundational references) that can help … Or, better yet, they can help close the gaps. Dr. Valdez is director of AHRQ. Mr.

93. AHRQ's 35th Anniversary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - errors, range from checklists that help reconcile medications at hospital discharge to processes that … enhance effective communication among caregivers and patients to toolkits that help patients taking … To help hospitals redesign the discharge process and curtail costly and unnecessary readmissions, AHRQ … The app can help Latinos prepare for in-person and telehealth medical appointments, part of AHRQ’s … This 12-page brochure is designed to help patients use prescription medicines safely.

94. Ten Attributes of Health Literate Health Care Organizations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - AHRQ resources that can help health systems with Attribute #1 include: AHRQ's Making Informed Consent … AHRQ resources that can help health systems with Attribute #2 include: CAHPS ® surveys of patient … AHRQ resources that can help health systems with Attribute #4 include: A Community Engagement Method … AHRQ resources that can help health systems with Attribute #7 include: Closing the Loop: A Guide to … AHRQ resources that can help health systems with Attribute #8 include: Address Language Differences

95. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2018 - Prevention The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created On-Time Falls Prevention to help … The tools are designed to help a multidisciplinary nursing home team prevent falls that can be avoided

96. Tools To Improve Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - This resource provides structured exercises and tools to help clinicians learn from reviewing their clinical … supplemental items are designed to be used in conjunction with the core SOPS Medical Office Survey to help … The tools help examine how tests are managed in the office, from the moment tests are ordered until the … Measure Dx : A Resource To Identify, Analyze, and Learn From Diagnostic Safety Events is a resource to help … to promote enhanced communication and information sharing within the patient-provider encounter to help

97. Incorporate Decision Aids Into a Healthcare Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - Sharing Additional Information Supporting Consumers How To Use Quality Information Help … People Make Decisions Incorporate Decision Aids Provide Intermediaries Help People … An alternative strategy is to provide intermediaries to help consumers use quality information . … A Worksheet or Checklist To help people make a decision, you can provide them with: A list of things … Read about telling people what to consider in Help People Make Decisions .

98. EvidenceNOW Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - s solutions for  revitalizing the Nation’s primary care system, uses a model of external support to help … The EvidenceNOW model uses external practice coaches or facilitators and other external supports to help … AHRQ developed EvidenceNOW to help them meet these challenges. … The project’s four goals were to: Help practices implement evidence to improve healthcare with a focus … new initiative is investing $18 million over 3 years to four grantees to improve heart health and help

99. Patient Education and Engagement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - AHRQ has many patient engagement guides and tools for hospitals, primary care, and other settings to help … The goal is to help patients and families set their visit agenda and to be ready, speak up, and ask questions … Culture, Customs, and Beliefs: Tool #10 Encourage Questions: Tool #14 Make Action Plans: Tool #15 Help … And it has tips to help patients learn more about their specific problem and how it can be treated. … Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital Providers can give this guide to patients to help

100. Supplemental Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Surgical Skin Preparation Audit Tool ( Word , 1.57 MB) This tool will help your team understand how … Operating Room Briefing and Debriefing Audit Tool ( Word , 1.57 MB) This tool will help your safety … Antibiotic Audit Tool ( Word , 1.6 MB) This tool will help your safety program team understand how … Normothermia Audit Tool ( Word , 1.59 MB) This tool will help your safety program team understand … Glucose Control Audit Tool ( Word , 1.67 MB) The purpose of this tool is to help your safety program