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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/index.html
January 01, 2024 - Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery
Tools to help … AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care, Phase 2
Resources to help … Preventing Infections
AHRQ funds work to help frontline providers prevent HAIs by improving how care … Learn About Patient Safety
Research-based tools to get your team on board and help them understand … Care Safety Hotline
Engaging Patients and Families
AHRQ offers free tools to help
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/welcome-guides/new-trainers.html
July 01, 2023 - Reinforcing the importance of these less visible but often critical teams can help you and your peers … The curriculum provides relevant technical assistance to anyone who needs help in this general area. … TeamSTEPPS 3.0 can help your trainees more effectively manage challenges arising from rapid changes in … It can help identify information of particular interest or provide a quick review of available tools. … This approach is designed to help TeamSTEPPS 3.0 users identify resources directly relevant to their
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/index.html
March 01, 2024 - Includes an implementation guide to help put prevention strategies into practice. … An English/Spanish guide to help staff ensure that patients understand their discharge instructions is … Toolkit for Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients With Devices
This toolkit can help hospital infection … Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs
This customizable, educational toolkit aims to help … Transitioning Newborns from NICU to Home: A Resource Toolkit provides customizable resources to help
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/learning-modules/index.html
March 01, 2023 - Organizational Support for Staff series
This series of three learning modules features strategies to help … Supporting Nursing Home Residents’ Emotional Health
This learning module will help you recognize when … Leading by Example
This learning module offers ideas to help boost morale, build trust, create a positive … Post-Vaccination Practices series
This series of two learning modules features strategies to help nursing … MODULES IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Haitian Creole
Spanish
Tagalog
LEADER RESOURCES
Tools to help
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/customer-service/strategy6q-custservice-standards.html
March 01, 2020 - Help your team to commit to aiming high and setting ambitious goals. … I can help you in five minutes."
"We're short-staffed." … "We may be busy, but we're never too busy to help you!"
"I don't know." … "I think I can help you find the answer." … What can I do to help?"
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/pharmacy/guide/app-5.html
September 01, 2020 - Also here is my colleague, ( notetaker ), who will help take notes. … If YES: Have you ever used these to help you find your way to the pharmacy? … Do the signs help you understand what you are supposed to do? … Does the pharmacist write down any of the information to help you remember it? … Is there staff available to help you with filling out the forms?
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/index.html
March 01, 2024 - Solution—EvidenceNOW
In 2015, AHRQ launched EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health with four goals:
Help … Build and disseminate a blueprint of how to improve primary care with external help. … Cooperatives to 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices in the U.S., including QI support and help … EvidenceNOW model to address research gaps and other important work by:
Applying the EvidenceNOW model to help … Supporting State-based infrastructure to help more primary care practices build their capacity for QI
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/challenges/patient-safety-tools/index.html
February 01, 2024 - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers many practical tools and resources to help … Includes an implementation guide to help put prevention strategies into practice. … Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit is a resource to help … Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients in Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings is designed to help … training curriculum for front-line personnel in nursing home and other long-term care facilities to help
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/shared-decision/workshop/mod1-guide.html
September 01, 2020 - Let's go over some tips to help you invite your patient to participate. … "I'm happy to share my views and help you reach a good decision. … "What additional questions do you have for me to help you make your decision?" … Help with managing barriers to implementing a decision. … They will be able to help you in your decision-making process."
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/nhguide/about/index.html
March 01, 2023 - The Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide (the Guide) provides toolkits to help nursing homes … section describes the toolkits, and the " Choosing the Right Toolkit " section provides some ideas to help … How Does the Guide Help Nursing Homes? … These interventions have been shown to help prescribing clinicians follow the best guidelines for making … Using the tools can help nursing homes establish many of the Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/officebasedcare/module7/office_sum-ig.html
April 01, 2022 - In addition, you will be introduced to the practice facilitator model and how it can help you begin to … The tools that support these core principles are the tools that you will use to help improve the practice … The communication tools help ensure that communication is both transmitted and received in a standardized … Checklists that accompany these tools help you to standardize each of these events so that individuals … Mutual Support Tools
Say:
The mutual support tools are a particularly rich set of tools that help
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/mutual/teach/two-day.html
February 01, 2024 - Focusing on such a story will help to get the module off to a positive start. … to others and asking for help when needed. … Poll the class to see how many think they do a better job of asking for help or offering help. … that discussions of interpersonal conflict can be tense and that the suggestions on this slide can help … For Slide 21, “A DESC Scenario,” to help the class apply DESC, use the scenario on the slide or replace
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/investing-in-primary-care.html
July 01, 2021 - AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW initiatives are engaging primary care practices across the country to help them … Equity in Heart Health , which is working in States with the highest rates of heart attack and stroke to help … most effectively support the Nation’s ongoing recovery from the pandemic: What efforts must be made to help … AHRQ’s past, present, and future primary care research can help guide primary care’s capacity to not … answer critical questions needed to deliver high-quality primary care, develop tools and resources to help
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/index.html
September 01, 2021 - training curriculum for front-line personnel in nursing home and other long-term care facilities to help … Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Modules are field-tested, evidence-based modules that can help … nursing homes develop antibiotic stewardship programs to help them use and prescribe antibiotics appropriately … Appropriate antibiotics use can reduce antimicrobial resistance and help retain the effectiveness of … Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention is a team training curriculum to help
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201522.html
August 01, 2015 - "RED provided the necessary evidence-based framework to help us develop a more comprehensive and appropriate … RED, developed by AHRQ-funded researchers, provides evidence-based tools to help hospitals re-engineer … By designating discharge advocates who help patients reconcile their medicines and schedule follow-up … This team prompts other team members to educate patients, help them manage medications, set up doctors
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/index.html
February 01, 2024 - The initiative builds on AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Model of external support to help primary care practices … The initiative will help close the gap between evidence and primary care practice in care for UI in women … Goals
This project aims to use the EvidenceNOW Model of external support to primary care practices to help … What's New
Tool and Resources to Help Improve Urinary Incontinence Care for Women
A range of resources
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/care-coordination/pcmh/faq.html
August 01, 2022 - research and health quality improvement agency, AHRQ does not provide guidance or direct support to help … I am seeking help with obtaining appropriate medical care for myself or a family member, or I’m having … Can you help me find a PCMH? Can you help me find a way to pay for care? … Administration for Community Living , or organizations in your local community, as a starting place to find help
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www.qualitymeasures.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
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www.qualitymeasures.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
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www.qualitymeasures.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