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2041. Meeting Summary - November 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2016 - Featured Clinicians & Providers Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals … Available from AHRQ Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals

2042. Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - Featured Clinicians & Providers Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals … Available from AHRQ Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals

2043. Blog | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2016 - Featured Clinicians & Providers Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals … Available from AHRQ Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals

2044. Module 5: How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices—Training Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      September 01, 2017 - Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program Module 5: How To Measure Fall Rates … Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program Fall Prevention Program Implementation Guide … Fall Prevention in Hospitals—Webinars Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit Hospital … hospitals. … for falls in the hospital.

2045. Module 4: How To Implement the Fall Prevention Program in Your Organization—Training Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2017 - Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program Module 4: How To Implement the Fall … Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program Fall Prevention Program Implementation Guide … Fall Prevention in Hospitals—Webinars Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit Hospital … Slide 13 Say: All hospitals experience staff turnover. … This example comes from a hospital that implemented AHRQ’s Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit.

2046. CAUTI-Related Data Collection Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2017 - Featured Clinicians & Providers Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals … Available from AHRQ Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals … How To Use This Toolkit Toolkit Sections About the Toolkit Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals

2047. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Implementation Handbook) (doc file)
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      April 01, 2011 - to help hospitals develop effective partnerships with patients and family members with the ultimate goal … Rehospitalization has become a focus of attention for hospitals, purchasers, hospital quality organizations … Two hospitals scheduled followup appointments for most of their patients prior to discharge. … All hospitals coordinated with home health agencies and connected patients to community resources. … Reducing hospital readmissions: lessons from top-performing hospitals.

2048. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 3) (doc file)
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      January 01, 2010 - A patient-centered model of care for hospital discharge. Clin Nurs Res. 2004;13(2):117–36.] … Hospital discharge planning for frail older people and their family. … Discharge planning from hospital to home. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010;20;(1):CD000313.] … More and more, hospitals are focusing on transitions in care as a way to improve hospital quality and … Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented new guidelines in 2012 that reduce payment to hospitals

2049. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 3) (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2010 - patient outcomes, reduce unplanned readmissions, and increase patient satisfaction.6,7 More and more, hospitals … are focusing on transitions in care as a way to improve hospital quality and safety. … Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented new guidelines in 2012 that reduce payment to hospitals … Hospital discharge planning for frail older people and their family. … Discharge planning from hospital to home. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010;20;(1):CD000313.

2050. Antibiotic Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2019 - Featured Clinicians & Providers Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals … Available from AHRQ Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals … How To Use This Toolkit Toolkit Sections About the Toolkit Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals … found that carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae prevalence was higher in long-term acute-care hospitals … than in acute-care hospitals (17.8% vs. 4.6%).

2051. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: A Profile (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2016 - Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) is a structured protocol and suite of implementation tools that helps hospitals … Hospitals using these tools have seen a 30 percent reduction in hospital readmissions and emergency … Healthcare Providers and Systems, which provide valid assessments of patients’ experience of care in hospitals … The hospital industry, patients, and CMS chose the hospital version of the AHRQ survey to be the measure … for all of the patient experience elements for CMS’ Hospital Quality Initiative.

2052. Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment (pdf file)
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      May 12, 2016 - Feel free to shorten or modify the checklist to best suit the needs of your hospital. … To what extent does each statement characterize your hospital? … • We disseminate the protocols and guidelines widely within the hospital. … To what extent does each statement characterize your hospital? … Overall, our hospital places a high priority on the AHRQ Quality Indicators.

2053. A3 Combo Selfassessment (doc file)
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      June 27, 2014 - Using this checklist, you can highlight capabilities that should be in place within your hospital before … Feel free to shorten or modify the checklist to best suit the needs of your hospital. … While not part of this toolkit, AHRQ’s Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture may help you assess … To what extent does each statement characterize your hospital? … To what extent does each statement characterize your hospital?

2054. Introduction to the Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool (pdf file)
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      June 05, 2016 - Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital … children when available, as well as information gathered from real-world experience in working with hospitals … In addition, a more general best practices form addressing mortality review was developed, which hospitals … related to preventable hospitalizations reflect the quality of ambulatory care, not the quality of in-hospital … practices related to preventing transfusion reactions would not help readers, as most, if not all, hospitals

2055. The How-To’s of Hand Hygiene | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2017 - Infect Control and Hospital Epidemiology . 2003 Mar;24(3):165-71. PMID: 12683506. … Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology . 2014 Jan;35(1):16–17. 9. … A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 … Infect Control and Hospital Epidemiology . 2003 Mar;24(3):165-71. PMID: 12683506. … Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology . 2014 Jan;35(1):16–17.

2056. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Implementation Handbook) (pdf file)
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      April 30, 2013 - Quality and Safety is a resource to help hospitals develop effective partnerships with patients and … Hospitals distribute three tools to the patient and family upon admission or prior to admission to help … As hospitals assess the level of staff involvement, they may want to encourage specific engagement from … Tools are available to help hospitals train, observe, and provide feedback to clinicians on core communication … Improving America’s hospitals: the Joint Commission’s annual report on quality and safety; 2007.

2057. Return on Investment Tool (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2013 - Other possible comparisons are comparisons across units within the same hospital, or across hospitals … If you use other units or hospitals as comparisons, be sure to choose comparison groups that have similar … Some hospitals may decide to hire consultants for training and statistical analysis related to quality … Because hospitals need to know their own costs to assess the performance of departments and the merits … Costs of quality improvement: a survey of four acute care hospitals.

2058. Return on Investment Tool (doc file)
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      January 01, 2013 - Other possible comparisons are comparisons across units within the same hospital, or across hospitals … If you use other units or hospitals as comparisons, be sure to choose comparison groups that have similar … Some hospitals may decide to hire consultants for training and statistical analysis related to quality … Because hospitals need to know their own costs to assess the performance of departments and the merits … Costs of quality improvement: a survey of four acute care hospitals.

2059. Final Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2016 - not fully understood, the increase in safety has occurred during a period of concerted attention by hospitals … (2010 - 2014) 5 Final 2014 estimates indicate that more than 36,000 fewer patients died in hospitals … results, technical assistance offered by the QIO program to hospitals, and technical assistance and … years; for example, the widespread implementation and improved use of electronic health records at hospitals … expanded its efforts in order to extend the success that hospitals have achieved to all health care

2060. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 2) (doc file)
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      February 24, 2011 - For questions about cost, insurance, or billing during your hospital stay, contact our [insert billing … It also helps you learn how to care for yourself after you leave the hospital. … When you are in the hospital, doctors and nurses will talk with you about: Your health before this hospital … It can be hard to remember all of the information you get in the hospital. … These areas in the hospital have materials that are easy to read.