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61. Engaging Patients and Families in Their Health Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/patients-families/patient-family-engagement/index.html
    April 01, 2018 - To help you and your patients get the most out of your time together, AHRQ offers these free resources … Use this module to help patients and family members understand what's happening during the patient's … Use this toolkit to help re-engineer your discharge process to reduce readmissions and post-hospital … And it has tips to help you learn more about your specific problem and how it can be treated. … Doctors and nurses talk about how your questions help them take better care of you and give advice on

62. 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

63. Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety | 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 … Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety is a tested, evidence-based resource to help … Helps hospitals engage patients and families, which in turn can help improve quality and safety, respond … Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety is a tested, evidence-based resource to help … The Guide’s sections include— Information to Help Hospitals Get Started addresses: How to select

64. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruprev/impmenu.html
    January 01, 2015 - Implementation Materials: Menu of Implementation Strategies Three implementation documents are used to help … The menu can help the change team identify ways to integrate the reports into current care planning discussions … during existing team meetings/huddles or help determine if new meetings/huddles may be needed to improve … In addition, the menu suggests other uses for the reports that may help staff monitor residents’ well-being

65. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/fallspx/implmatls.html
    November 01, 2017 - Prevention Self-Assessment Worksheet Purpose The Self-Assessment Worksheet is a worksheet designed to help … The self-assessment tool is intended to help identify the current processes and structures the nursing … It is intended to help staff think about ways to transform these processes and how to begin to use the … The team is expected to use the Self-Assessment Worksheet to help understand current fall prevention … An On-Time Facilitator will help guide the Change Team through this process.

66. Choosing the Right Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2016 - To help decide which tools may be most appropriate for a particular nursing home, it may be helpful to … In that case, a nursing home may want to select one of the tools designed to help prescribing clinicians … This may help the antimicrobial stewardship team identify a problem on which to focus.   … Stewardship Program Goals Level of Resources Needed Identify Potential Problems Help … Prescribing Clinicians Identify an Infection Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right

67. About the Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2024 - 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

68. How PSOs Help Health Care Organizations Improve Patient Safety Culture (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/npsd-patient-safety-culture-brief.pdf
    September 01, 2016 - How PSOs Help Health Care Organizations Improve Patient Safety Culture How PSOs Help Health Care Organizations … Suggested Citation: Understanding How PSOs Help Health Care Organizations Improve Patient Safety Culture … Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Partnership (CUSP) program at the beginning of PSO membership, to help … No. 16-0026-EF April 2016 5 Program Brief Network of Patient Safety Databases How PSOs Help Health

69. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/index.html
    November 01, 2017 - develop weekly reports that identify residents at risk of common adverse events in nursing homes to help … On-Time uses a facilitator to help the nursing home's change team integrate these reports into clinical … On-Time also provides implementation tools to help the team use the reports on a weekly basis.

70. Supporting Consumers in Using Information on Health Care Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/support/index.html
    July 01, 2016 - 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 … People Make Decisions Incorporate Decisionmaking Aids Provide Access to Information Intermediaries Help … In addition to needing help in understanding individual measures or measure sets, people need help synthesizing

71. Finding and fixing diagnosis errors: can triggers help? | PSNet
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    January 31, 2024 - Commentary Finding and fixing diagnosis errors: can triggers help? … Finding and fixing diagnosis errors: can triggers help? … Finding and fixing diagnosis errors: can triggers help?

72. Behavioral Programs To Help Manage Type 1 Diabetes (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2016 - Behavioral Programs To Help Manage Type 1 Diabetes Behavioral Programs To Help Manage Type 1 Diabetes … He or she can also help you set specific goals to manage your diabetes on your own. … Lifestyle changes can help lower the risk of health issues from diabetes. … Other types help strengthen your bones and muscles. … More research is needed to know if behavioral programs help in the long term.

73. Video games can help cut surgical errors. | PSNet
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    January 23, 2008 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Video games can help cut surgical errors. … Citation Text: Video games can help cut surgical errors. Baertlein L. … Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Video games can help

74. Help your patient "get" what you just said: a health literacy guide. | PSNet
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    December 18, 2014 - Commentary Help your patient "get" what you just said: a health literacy guide. … Help your patient "get" what you just said: a health literacy guide. … This commentary describes strategies to help health care providers improve communication with patients … Help your patient "get" what you just said: a health literacy guide.

75. Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/choosing.html
    April 01, 2018 - The information below describes how each strategy may help your practice achieve its improvement goals … This strategy can help make office visits more efficient and reduce followup calls. … This strategy can help you conduct medication reconciliation based on a complete and accurate list of … This strategy can help make sure your patients leave your office knowing what they need to know and do … This strategy can help improve communication between team members and with the patient and family.

76. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.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

77. SDOH & Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2023 - SDOH & Practice Improvement Tools to help healthcare organizations address SDOH Tools To Help … Assessing Patient Social Risks and Needs There are numerous tools to help identify social needs patients … AHRQ Resources to Address SDOH and Social Needs Clinical-community linkages help to connect healthcare … Learn about a tool to help primary care practices screen and refer patients for social needs  such as

78. Quitting Helps You Heal Faster | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/tearsheets/hospital.html
    October 01, 2014 - Ask for help right away. … Your doctor may give you medicine to help you handle withdrawal while in the hospital and beyond. … For help in quitting smoking, call the National Quitline toll free: 1-800-QUIT NOW. U.S.

79. The EvidenceNOW Model: Providing External Support for Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2025 - It also is designed to help primary care practices increase their capacity for quality improvement with … initially implemented in 2015 as part of AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health initiative to help … Practice facilitators also help provide or connect practices with the other quality improvement supports … Programs can also use practice facilitators to help determine whether a practice is ready to engage in … AHRQ's practice facilitation training modules can help practice facilitators accomplish this.

80. Gulf Breeze Hospital in Florida Shows Consistent Improvement in Hospital Survey of Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2015 - Systems (HCAHPS ® ) , a standardized survey measuring the perceptions of recently discharged patients to help … M.S.N., vice president of operations at GBH, said the HCAHPS scores provide patients' perspectives and help … The hospital uses a numeric scale to help patients communicate their pain level. … "The physical therapists help address expectation of pain with patients prior to their surgery and therapy … To help doctors improve in the area of doctor-patient communication, the HCAHPS questions related to