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1641. 5. Improving Data Collection across the Health Care System | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata5.html
      May 01, 2018 - Hospitals Because hospitals tend to have information systems for data collection and reporting, staff … vary by hospital, and hospitals obtain the information in various ways (e.g., self-report and observer … A 2006 National Public Health and Hospitals Institute (NPHHI) survey asked hospitals that collected race … Data collected at the hospital level are useful both for assessing the quality of hospital-provided services … administrative database versus a sample of hospital patients).

1642. Action Planning for the SOPS Surveys-Results (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/04-yount-sops-action-planning-tool.pdf
      June 01, 2019 - Composite Measures Your Current % 2018 HSOPS Database 50-99 Bed Hospitals Supervisor … • All nursing and medical staff in all hospital units 40 5. Who can lead the initiative? … measures ► Feedback from staff during huddles and walkarounds on actual implementation of SBAR ► Hospital … on how training is going (e.g., 25% done) • Share evaluation form results • Share results of the Hospital … Example: Our Hospital’s Results Comparing to the Database Comparing to Similar Hospitals Comparing

1643. AHRQ Guide at Center of Dignity Health Quality Improvement Effort | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2017 - Quality Improvement Effort Search All Impact Case Studies August 2017 AHRQ's Preventing Hospital-Related … and 2013, led to a reduction of an estimated 330 VTEs per year compared with the baseline for the 39-hospital … San Francisco-based Dignity Health, which operates hospitals and clinics in California, Arizona, and … Added Janet Holdych, Pharm.D., vice president of quality, "We went to the hospitals to ask what they … Of nearly 1.2 million inpatient admissions in the nine pilot hospitals, there were approximately 34,000

1644. AHRQ Quality Indicators Assist Iowa Healthcare Collaborative in Quality Improvement Efforts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - The Collaborative used two years of NIS data and five years of SID data, measuring Iowa hospitals' performance—in … For example, the IHC's Healthcare Associated Infection Workgroup has collected information from hospitals … To close this information gap, the IHC launched an effort encouraging hospitals to report their influenza … Of the 116 hospitals, 100 reported data, with a total influenza immunization rate of 68 percent. … IHC was originally formed through a partnership of the Iowa Hospital Association and the Iowa Medical

1645. Implementing Automatic Referral | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/training/implementing-automatic-referral/index.html
      April 01, 2023 - area will walk you through the necessary steps for implementing an automatic referral system in your hospital … Automatic referral is the systematic, automatic referral of all qualifying patients to CR through the hospital … This set of TAKEheart training materials can help your hospital: Identify the key factors to consider … training materials drawn from two training modules that were originally presented live to a group of hospitals … Hospitals wishing to take a deeper dive into one or more of the topics covered in the consolidated curriculum

1646. Third Annual CHSP CoE Workshop (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/reports/chsp-issue-brief-3.pdf
      January 01, 2019 - NBER looked into how systems allocate patients among member community hospitals and teaching hospitals … a community hospital is less than the distance to the teaching hospital. … local community hospital is a member of a health system with a teaching hospital; this effect was … Association Hospital Survey, and SK&A physician and hospital data of providers and health systems. … Whether hospitals affiliated with health systems perform better than non-system hospitals in the first

1647. Nursing Homes Affiliated With U.S. Health Systems, 2018 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/data/chsp-brief8-nursinghomes.pdf
      January 01, 2021 - (212 systems) 1 hospital (247 systems) 2-3 hospitals (174 systems) TEACHING Teaching systems are … 66 247 27% 2-3 hospitals 114 174 66% 4+ hospitals 150 212 71% Multistate systems Operates in 1 State … Association (AHA) annual survey of hospitals data, 2017 • IQVIA OneKey, 2018 In addition to being … and (2) systems with at least one hospital with a high DSH patient percentage. … information about some hospitals is missing.

1648. Improving Health Information Technology (IT) Patient Safety: A Resource List for Users of the AHRQ Health Information Technology Supplemental Item Set (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/patient-safety-technology-resources.pdf
      May 01, 2023 - Quality (AHRQ) Health Information Technology (IT) Patient Safety Supplemental Item Set for the SOPS Hospital … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Updated May 2023 https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/hospital … /supplemental-items/health-it.html https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/hospital/index.html https://www.ahrq.gov … /sops/surveys/hospital/index.html mailto:SafetyCultureSurveys@westat.com SOPS Health IT Patient Safety … Resources for Critical Access Hospitals and Small Rural Hospitals 10.

1649. Joint Commission Incorporates AHRQ Findings in Developing Safe Practice Goals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - The initiatives were developed in collaboration with the Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA). … As the national group that accredits hospitals, JCAHO now expects hospitals around the country to follow … The toolkits and set of implementation tips and strategies based on the lessons learned from these hospital … teams are now available on the Coalition's Web site for use by any hospital working on the JCAHO National … The Coalition also provides tips and tools that hospitals can access through its Web site ( www.macoalition.org

1650. Carr, Brendan G. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/grants/active/kawards/Kawdsumcarr.html
      October 01, 2014 - the accuracy of a model of prehospital times for patients traveling to trauma and nontrauma center hospitals … severity-adjusted differences in mortality exist for injured patients treated at trauma and nontrauma center hospitals … predictors of severity-adjusted mortality for injured patients treated at trauma and nontrauma center hospitals … He received his MD from Temple University and served his residency in emergency medicine at the Hospital … The PI also has a cleaned and merged nationally representative datasets of patients admitted to hospitals

1651. Choosing a Patient Safety Organization (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/pso-brochure.pdf
      March 01, 2020 - “ 80 percent of hospitals that work with a PSO found that the PSO’s feedback and analysis was … future events.* * Findings from the September 23, 2019 Final Report: Patient Safety Organizations: Hospital … Why Hospitals Value PSOsWhy Hospitals Value PSOs Over half of hospitals surveyed work with a PSO and … in patient safety Findings from the September 23, 2019 Final Report: Patient Safety Organizations: Hospital … Services, OEI-01-17-00420.Findings from the September 23, 2019 Final Report: Patient Safety Organizations: Hospital

1652. System Metrics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/resdesign-tool/kit6.html
      August 01, 2016 - for evaluating the impact of the many process improvements that will be implemented throughout the hospital … In order for there to be replication of redesign efforts in other hospital systems, there needs to be … an incentive for hospitals to invest in this effort. …       ALOS for Top 10 Diagnoses X   X       Mean Wait Time in ED for Hospital … On a weekly basis the hospitals send Press Ganey a list of inpatients for which Press Ganey selects a

1653. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/guides/resphys-champions.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - are commonly used in the hospital setting. … was admitted to the hospital because of a left leg infection. … and reduce hospital-acquired infections and other safety events. … The two main unit types in the hospital are ICUs and non-ICUs. … The structure of ICUs differs depending on the hospital.

1654. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/resphys-champions_2.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - are commonly used in the hospital setting. … was admitted to the hospital because of a left leg infection. … and reduce hospital-acquired infections and other safety events. … The two main unit types in the hospital are ICUs and non-ICUs. … The structure of ICUs differs depending on the hospital.

1655. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/resphys-champions.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - are commonly used in the hospital setting. … was admitted to the hospital because of a left leg infection. … and reduce hospital-acquired infections and other safety events. … The two main unit types in the hospital are ICUs and non-ICUs. … The structure of ICUs differs depending on the hospital.

1656. Fact Sheet on Inpatient Quality Indicators (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/a1a_combo_iqifactsheet.pdf
      October 01, 2015 - These indicators reflect quality of care inside hospitals (or geographic regions) and include volume … from individual IQIs from low- volume centers and theoretically allowing better discrimination among hospitals … The IQIs can be used to help hospitals identify potential problem areas that may need further study. … ; utilization indicators for procedures for which utilization varies across hospitals or geographic … Because hospitals have just begun coding with ICD-10 codes, there are no available national data that

1657. Utah Department of Health Uses MONAHRQ® to Create Online Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - as HCAHPS or Hospital CAHPS). … The online report compares the performance of Utah hospitals on measures such as patient safety and average … The report also shows maps of county rates of readmissions, hospitals' adherence to guidelines for recommended … One section, "Hospital Quality Ratings," shows which hospitals performed better than average, average … , or below average when compared with all Utah hospitals for conditions such as heart attacks or procedures

1658. Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-hpwpreport/clabsi-hpwp2.html
      August 01, 2015 - Within each participating State, we selected a pair of hospitals to recruit for our study that were matched … , some hospitals had virtually eliminated CLABSIs and maintained those results for 6 months or longer … We classified these hospitals as higher performers and designated as lower performers the hospitals that … In addition to the CUSP sites, we elected to study one hospital that had not participated in the CUSP … We chose this hospital because we knew that it had a strong focus on HPWPs and had made efforts in HAI

1659. From Insight to Implementation: Lessons from a Multi-site Trial of a PDA-based Warfarin Dose Calculator (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Kravitz.pdf
      February 09, 2005 - The essential characteristics of the hospitals are summarized in Table 1. … Characteristics of hospitals originally committed to participate Hospital Type Location Number of … and the chief hospital pharmacists. … California-affiliated hospitals. … Between-hospital variations affecting generalizability Hospital Prior inpatient pharmacist involvement

1660. Ptoutcsurvey (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/hospitals/red-toolkit/ptoutcsurvey.docx
      January 03, 2013 - Patient Outcome Survey (mailed version) For hospitals needing translation services, a helpful reference … HOSPITAL USE Have you stayed in a hospital overnight since you left the hospital on {discharge date}? … 1 Yes 2 No During this hospital stay, did hospital staff tell you whom to call after you left the hospital … HOSPITAL USE 1. … 1 Yes 2 No During this hospital stay, did hospital staff tell you whom to call after you left the hospital