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121. Blood Pressure Control Evidence and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/evidence/blood-pressure.html
     March 01, 2021 - Target: BP Technique Quick-check This checklist is designed for practices to help evaluate whether … High Blood Pressure: Medicines to Help You This guide for patients offers information about the different … A Journal to Help You Manage High Blood Pressure This booklet helps patients managing high blood pressure … record their blood pressure readings and medications, and provides information to help patients work … DASH) eating plan, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products, and other steps to help

122. Supporting Consumers in Using Information on Health Care Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/support/index.html
     July 01, 2016 - Sharing Additional Information Supporting Consumers How To Use Quality Information Help … People Make Decisions Incorporate Decision Aids Provide Intermediaries Help People … All of the recommendations in this Web site are intended to help you plan, design, and disseminate your … to support consumers in using quality information: Explain How Quality Information Can Be Used Help … In addition to needing help in understanding individual measures or measure sets, people need help synthesizing

123. AHRQ Quality Indicator Tools for Data Analytics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/data/qualityindicators/index.html
     November 01, 2020 - Area-level QIs can be used as a "screening tool" to help flag potential healthcare access problems or … addition, they provide a quick check on primary care access or outpatient services in a community and help … Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) help hospitals assess the incidence of adverse events and in-hospital … Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDIs) help detect issues in pediatric hospital care that may need further … Software: AHRQ’s free software ( SAS QI and WinQI ) can be used to calculate AHRQ QI rates and to help

124. Toolkit 1. Working With Your Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/help-clinicians-choose-the-right-antibiotic/toolkit1-working-with-a-lab.html
     October 01, 2016 - Because antibiograms provide information on local susceptibility patterns, they may help to improve the … Ask the laboratory if they can help with this, as your lab may be able to distribute the antibiogram … Updating the antibiogram annually will help maintain its value. … For help with the accessibility of any of the documents linked from this page, please contact Debbie … Anticipated feedback from the field will help evaluate the effectiveness of this toolkit.

125. Advice on Using Design Professionals for a Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/design/advice.html
     December 01, 2022 - Some tips to help make this happen: Create a realistic timeline that allows ample time for creativity … Help keep the project on track by holding regular meetings with your design team. … To help avoid expensive surprises, you and your design team must share a common vision of the report. … Collect examples of quality reports to help decide how you want your design to look and to use as tools … Using a mockup can help you get the benefit of your design team’s advice at an early stage and can save

126. Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/quality/index.html
     September 01, 2022 - EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity : This program uses practice facilitation to help practices develop … EvidenceNOW: Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use : This program uses practice facilitation to help primary … EvidenceNOW: Managing Urinary Incontinence in Women : This program uses practice facilitation to help … Highlighted Resources EvidenceNOW Tools for Change : Tools to help primary care practices and practice

127. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/index.html
     February 01, 2020 - All health care providers, especially those with direct patient contact, have a unique opportunity to help … This Systems Change material will help advance that endeavor. … Systems Change For Tobacco Users Consumer materials to help tobacco users become tobacco-free … Department of Health and Human Services to help support people who are trying to quit smoking: You

128. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Ambulatory Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/index.html
     July 01, 2022 - Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit  is a resource to help … Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition can help primary care practices reduce the … Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care How-To-Implement Toolkit   help … Toolkit for Engaging Patients To Improve Diagnostic Safety   is designed to help patients, families, … Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients in Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings is designed to help

129. Helping Healthcare Systems Reduce Carbon Pollution: A New Primer from AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/reduce-carbon-pollution-primer.html
     October 01, 2022 - Taking on carbon emissions can even help with recruitment and retention, with nearly seven in 10 workers

130. Protecting the Most Vulnerable Through Partnership: Helping Nursing Homes Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/protecting-most-vulnerable.html
     March 01, 2021 - The Network provides free training and mentorship to help nursing homes increase the implementation of

131. SHARE Approach Workshop Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/shared-decision/workshop/mod2-slides.html
     September 01, 2020 - Patient-centered outcomes research can help. … How do you help your patients compare options? (Image of a white board.) … Allows you to help your patients come to a decision that works for their lives. … Help clarify patients' preferences for risks and benefits of options. … Help patients assess what is important to him or her.

132. Transforming service delivery to promote quality of care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/finalsummary/finalsummary3.html
     September 01, 2015 - Intensive one-on-one support (such as technical assistance or practice facilitation) to help practices … Although learning collaboratives can help build providers’ capacity, not all practices want to improve … States can help SBHCs by hiring youth engagement specialists who can assist in hosting workshops for … youth and health literacy training for SBHC staff, and practice facilitators who can help gather and … Colorado and New Mexico hired QI coaches and provided stipends to help SBHCs carry out QI projects

133. Channels: Reaching the Audience for a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/placement/channels.html
     January 01, 2023 - They have resources available to help you (e.g., volunteers, funding, time). … They can co-sponsor events that would help to reach your audience. … that employers can use to educate their employees, and provides educational sessions for employers to help … To help these organizations support use of the report, be sure to provide adequate training so that they … can answer questions, guide their constituencies through the material, and even help them use the information

134. AHRQ Safety Program Helps Hospitals Decrease Antibiotic Use and Reduce Infections, Study Finds | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/antibiotic-stewardship-hospital.html
     February 01, 2021 - information about the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use, including a toolkit that can help

135. Care Delivery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/index.html
     March 01, 2023 - to Reducing Unintended Consequences of Electronic Health Records   is an online resource designed to help … This toolkit and companion implementation guide help adult and pediatric practices reduce the complexity … Also available is a crosswalk showing how implementing health literacy tools can help meet standards … A Decisionmaker's Guide to Adopting Innovations   can help you determine if an innovation would be a … Toolkit for Rapid-Cycle Patient Safety and Quality Improvement  provides information and resources to help

136. Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/questions/resources/index.html
     November 01, 2020 - My Questions for This Visit 20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors Next Steps After Your … Patients and families who engage with health care providers to ask good questions can help reduce the … The resources below will help you prepare for medical appointments, ask questions, and talk with members … My Questions for This Visit Prioritize questions while in the waiting room.  20 Tips to Help Prevent

137. Spoken Communication | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/precautions/guide/spoken.html
     September 01, 2020 - Consider enlisting the help of a practice leader (e.g., medical director, lead physician) to endorse … As you observe an interaction, complete the form and write notes that can help the provider or staff … Tips for Using the Assessment Results Assessment results are intended to help your practice members … Tool 7: Improve Telephone Access The goal of this tool is to help practices manage their telephone … Communication of cultural understanding and respect can help you establish trust.

138. Making Progress on Healthy People 2030 Health Literacy Objectives | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/health-literacy-objectives.html
     October 01, 2021 - health literacy strategies that will move three objectives forward and has developed resources that will help … Healthcare providers can help the U.S. reach its goal for the first objective by using the teach-back … proportion of adults who report poor communication with their healthcare provider Organizations can help … AHRQ Resources AHRQ has many resources to help organizations become more health literate. … Check out AHRQ’s health literacy improvement tools and training , and help the U.S. reach its Healthy

139. AHRQ’s Core Competencies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/cpi/corecompetencies/index.html
     September 01, 2019 - The Agency aims to help healthcare systems and professionals deliver care that is high quality, safe, … Practice Improvement AHRQ creates tools and strategies to help health systems and frontline clinicians … Data & Analytics AHRQ data and analysis help healthcare decision makers understand how the US healthcare

140. The CUSP Method | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/index.html
     December 01, 2023 - The CUSP Method The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is a method that can help … How To Use the CUSP Method A number of toolkits are available to help clinical teams adopt the CUSP … Once you’ve learned the basics, additional toolkits can help you target certain safety issues in specific