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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/smoking-cessation-disparities.html
December 01, 2023 - This study helps inform such analyses and will benefit other research in this area.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/027-cusp-program-sustainability-fg.docx
April 01, 2025 - Maintaining hospital leadership engagement alongside frontline personnel helps to build a strong team … The senior executive helps to provide resources and remove barriers. … The provider champion brings their perspective to the project and helps to disseminate information and … Slide 13
CUSP Meeting Agenda
SAY:
A meeting agenda helps team members anticipate and prepare for
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/fallspximplstrat.pdf
June 02, 2025 - In addition, the menu helps the team consider other possible uses of the reports.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/teamcheckup.doc
June 02, 2025 - Team Check-up Tool
Purpose of the tool: This tool helps assess unit strengths and opportunities for improving
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/160-dec-universal-unit-protocol.docx
October 01, 2024 - Program for MRSA Prevention
Unit Protocol:
Universal MRSA Decolonization
ICU/Non-ICU
This document helps
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/video/huddle-emergency-dept-guide.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Lessons Learned
A huddle helps teams improve performance and enhance safety when preparing for an event
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34627/psn-pdf
December 08, 2015 - to patient safety issues (such as medication safety and prevention of retained surgical
items) and helps
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/shank-nancy
January 01, 2023 - hospitals, clinics, and providers across Nebraska's remote 14,000-square-mile western panhandle; also helps
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/853240/psn-pdf
September 06, 2023 - videos-simulated-after-action-reviews-training-resource-support-social-and-
inclusive-learning
Debriefing after significant clinical events helps
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/technical-bundles-ltvv.html
March 01, 2017 - Low Tidal Volume Ventilation Data Collection Tool ( Word File , 688 KB; Text Version )
This tool helps
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/cauti-hospitals/index.html
March 01, 2018 - The Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) in Hospitals helps
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips0802.html
October 01, 2014 - AHRQ Research Helps Pharmacists in Mentoring Program to Reduce Drug Errors in Emergency Departments
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-personal-health-record-mental-health-consumers/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - During the first 6 months of the intervention phase, a clinical care nurse helps patients access and … This helps to ensure that participants know what is expected of them.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/recent-grants-public-health.html
May 01, 2024 - Social Determinants of Health Database AHRQ's SDOH database helps to facilitate patient centered outcomes … social needs can be used to help connect them to needed services available in the community, and also helps
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/ltc/mod1sess2.html
October 01, 2014 - SBAR tool:
An abbreviation that helps you to remember how to communicate change. … SBAR Tool
SBAR is an abbreviation that helps you to remember how to communicate a change. … SBAR is a memory aide that helps us to focus on what we need to do. … A Safe Environment
Reporting changes helps keep residents as safe as possible. … Open communication among team members helps to keep residents safe.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/onboarding/onboarding_scienceofsafety_training.pptx
December 01, 2017 - Patient Safety ‹#›
AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery – Onboarding
SAY:
Science of safety training helps … Science of safety training helps providers and others understand that the majority of errors arise from … Developing awareness of the factors that influence communication for both the sender and the receiver helps … The Perioperative Staff Safety Assessment helps teams identify defects that the team can address, and … helps teams design interventions that prevent the defects from occurring in the future.
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References
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/Best_Practices_Hosp_Leaders_508.docx
March 13, 2013 - Sharing data also helps staff identify areas for improvement and allows them to see what the hospital … family engagement
Creating an organizational structure with a place for patient and family engagement helps … Investing in staff development related to patient and family engagement helps staff partner meaningfully … , evaluation, and research.(12)
For some organizations, investing in temporary or permanent coaches helps … involvement in planning, implementation, and evaluation
Involving staff in all phases of initiatives helps
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/2025-03/uspstf-who-we-are-how-we-work-2025.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Partners
Partner input helps ensure Task Force recommendations are relevant and useful to clinicians … Public
Public input helps ensure that Task Force recommendations are relevant and useful to health … Healthfinder is a consumer-friendly tool based on Task Force recommendations and
other reliable resources that helps … Task Force is committed to ensuring the public is aware of its work; its coordination with the media
helps
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/onboarding/onboarding_data_into_action.pptx
December 01, 2017 - Debriefing is important because it turns data into information and helps accelerate improvement. … It helps address the adaptive work—for example, improving teamwork, communication, and strengthening … Safety culture debriefing facilitators
Helps guide the discussion and record group decisions
Turning … In step 1, the debriefing facilitator helps team members identify the general cultural strengths and … An investigation helps explain what went right and what went wrong for this particular patient.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/podcasts/Qualitative_Methods_2012_04_11_Transcript.pdf
January 01, 2012 - We also know it helps improve your clinical outcomes and safety. … organization's perspective, again it improves the quality of the service and the programs we're
offering, it helps … And we've also seen that it actually really helps in fundraising and other
things where you really might … in the chronic condition category often are
very effective at sharing principles about what really helps … And it also, again as I
mentioned earlier, helps you identify things that have long outlived their usefulness