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401. Readiness Assessment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final-companion/clabsicomp5c.html
     January 01, 2013 - Units in teaching hospitals or hospitals with greater than the median number of beds were more likely … the median bed size of the sample was used to classify units as residing in hospitals with total bed … Units residing in either teaching hospitals or hospitals with greater than 230 beds were more likely … evidence-based practices 80.1% 41.2% 38.9% 0.016 37.7% 42.4% 0.002 7 Does your hospital … " † Total hospital beds median for sample used for stratification (median =  230, mean = 311, stdev

402. Building Capacity in HAI Prevention Research: NICHE and the STOP CAUTI Workgroup | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/es/hai/patient-safety-resources/advances-in-hai/hai-article12.html
     June 01, 2014 - Recruited from among 245 NICHE member hospitals, 20 hospitals completed all steps required to participate … Hospitals conducted one of two types of audits. … STOP CAUTI hospitals were more likely than typical NICHE hospitals to have "Magnet" designation (60 percent … Characteristics of STOP CAUTI Workgroup hospitals and study units Characteristic Value Hospitals … , MS, RN, ACNS-BC, Aspirus Wausau Hospital; Deirdre Carolan, CRNP, PhD, GCNS, Inova Fairfax Hospital;

403. Comparative Health System Performance Initiative: Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2018, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/compendium/2018-Compendium-TechDoc-update.pdf
     January 01, 2018 - To assign hospitals to health systems, we applied the following rules: vi The Hospital Linkage File … First, we deduplicated hospitals across sources based on hospital name and location. … at least one children’s hospital but not predominantly delivering care at children’s hospitals. … non-Federal general acute care hospital beds in the system are in children’s hospitals. … For hospital verification, IQVIA confirms with hospitals that their website is up to date.

404. Creating Capacity for Improvement in Primary Care, No. 1 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/pcmhqi1.pdf
     April 01, 2013 - Policies and Supports for QI Infrastructure in Hospitals Hospitals have devoted considerable resources … Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Hospital Quality Initiative and a number of State … which encourages hospitals to manage hospital care efficiently. … and reporting hospital quality information (Draper, et al., 2008). … The role of nurses in hospital quality improvement. HSC Research Brief No. 3. March 2008.

405. Comparative Health System Performance Initiative: Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, Technical Documentation-Appendix A (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/compendium/techdocrpt-appa.pdf
     January 01, 2019 - For hospital verification, QuintilesIMS confirms with hospitals that their website is up to date. … for cohort studies to monitor changes in hospitals over time. … The data may be used to identify horizontally integrated hospitals, identify hospitals that have vertical … equity models; medical group or physician ownership of hospitals; hospital participation in foundation … models; and hospital-physician alignment through management services organizations and physician hospital

406. Section 4. Identifying Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptflow/section4.html
     July 01, 2018 - Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals Section 4. … Roadblocks also may be identified through a review of data from your hospital. … Good Samaritan Hospital: Using Data to Aid Strategy Selection Good Samaritan Hospital in Long Island … Francis Hospital: Educational Resources Needed for Ambitious Strategy St. … UMLN II hospitals were divided in the approach they used, with some hospitals primarily using a top-down

407. AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicators Help Anthem of Virginia Improve Quality and Outcomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cdom0501.html
     October 01, 2014 - The Quality-In-Sights™: Hospital Incentive Program (Q-HIP) is offered by Anthem to Virginia and its contiguous … states' hospitals. … Each hospital that has achieved qualifying performance scores will receive a positive payment adjustment … Each hospital that fails to achieve the minimal performance scores will not receive increased payment … Anthem is working with AHRQ to develop better ways of using these indicators within each hospital and

408. Improvement Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/child-hcahps/improvement-data.html
     July 01, 2021 - of Healthcare Providers and Systems (Child HCAHPS) Survey to compare within and across state-level hospitals … states were provided with a deidentified raw dataset of survey results from a subset of hospitals that … With permission from the hospitals, data was securely transferred from seven hospitals to each of the … The data included 69 hospitals in 32 states. … To provide sufficient hospitals within each “state,” the CEPQM team analyzed the hospital-level adjusted

409. Defining Health Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/chsp/defining-health-systems/index.html
     January 01, 2023 - Dartmouth is studying multiple levels within a system: individual practices, hospitals, and system leadership … While independent practices and independent hospitals do not meet the definition of a system, Dartmouth … Excellence defines a health system as a group of healthcare organizations (e.g., physician practices, hospitals … For RAND, this excludes "horizontally integrated" health systems, such as systems consisting only of hospitals … “Group” is not synonymous with a separately organized medical group; hospitals that employ community-based

410. Final Progress Report: What About Mom? Using Administrative Data To Develop Measures for Monitoring Healthcare Quality in Pregnancy & Childbirth (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/gregory-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Models were fitted with a hospital error term that was assumed to be uncorrelated across hospitals. … To assess between-hospital variation, we report the VPC and the number of hospitals with "extremely" … In addition, hospitals with fewer than 200 deliveries per year were excluded from hospital specific … Variation Variation Mean+SD, Median (range for hospitals) Hospital n=242 PSI #1: Complications … Extreme high rate hospitals # hospital s mean (sd) rate Min rate Max Rate # hospit

411. The Rural Physician Peer Review Model©: A Virtual Solution (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Williams_115.pdf
     June 19, 2008 - Initially, a separate file was created for each hospital (facility) in the network. … There may be several physicians from a hospital, but in most meetings, the physicians are located in … ”); 12 of the hospitals are designated as Critical 5 Access Hospitals (CAHs). … Because hospitals can enter the network in any month, new hospitals may need to learn what more experienced … , problems faced by the hospital in participating in RCHI peer review, and hospital gains from the RCHI

412. Slide 1 (ppt file)
     www.ahrq.gov/downloads/monahrq/ppt/MONAHRQ1vs2_Presentation.ppt
     February 01, 2011 - Compare file You load the Hospital Compare file Step 2b: Specify hospitals Load your own hospital discharge … data … You link hospitals You load your local data You specify local hospital information MONAHRQ … * Linking Hospitals in MONAHRQ 2.0 Crosswalk your local hospitals to hospitals in the Hospital … hospitals Image of website screenshot; shows option to choose a region or all hospitals; shows an option … to select up to four hospitals.

413. Report Organization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final/clabsifinal1.html
     January 01, 2013 - HRET's partners were the Armstrong Institute, MHA Keystone, and State and regional hospital associations … Each State and regional hospital association executive signed a letter committing to these goals, to … Some States were unable to recruit 10 hospitals. … This proved to be a valuable strategy as many of the States that are in the AHA/HRET Hospital Engagement … In addition, AHRQ directed HRET to encourage participating hospital associations to coordinate their

414. Final Progress Report: EMR Planning To Improve North Iowa Healthcare (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/ebeling-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Ebeling (Principal Investigator), RN, MSN, formerly, Chief Executive Officer, Hancock County Memorial Hospital … Iowa • Nancy Abbas, RPh, Pharmacy Director for Belmond Medical Center and Hancock County Memorial Hospital … County Memorial Hospital, Britt • Belmond Medical Center, Belmond • Ellsworth Municipal Hospital, … James Flanagan, project consultant, led an evening workshop to educate hospital and public/community … Hancock County Memorial Hospital hosted the presentation, which was transmitted to all nine hospital

415. Assessing Indicator Rates Using Trends and Comparators (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/b5_combo_assessingtrendscomparators.pdf
     March 20, 2016 - Comparing Your Hospital With Other Hospitals Comparison data provide comparisons with other organizations … to other hospitals, and you can identify the measures for which your hospital is doing quite well and … would be groups of hospitals that you consider to be peers to your hospital, such as academic medical … centers, rural hospitals, or community hospitals. … Some hospitals may rely on an outside agency, such as the State hospital association or a parent organization

416. AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/pstools/patient-safety-tools-flyer-2021update.pdf
     April 01, 2021 - /hospital ■ Hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery centers Web: ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance … Web: ahrq.gov/hospital/engagingfamilies Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions provides … of hospital staff on how to implement AHRQ’s Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit. … the training of hospital staff on how to implement AHRQ’s Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Toolkit … hospitals.

417. SOPS Bibliography | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2025 - Hospital management, supervisor support, and nurse speaking-up behaviours: The mediating role of safety … Cross-culture adaptation and validation of the Indonesian version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety … Hospital cultural competency and attributes of patient safety culture: A study of U.S. hospitals. … Assessing patient safety culture in United States hospitals. … Hospital staffing patterns and safety culture perceptions: The mediating role of perceived teamwork and

418. Empowering Women and Providers for Improved Care of Urinary Incontinence: EMPOWER Study (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/projects/urinary/evidencenow_empower.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - population includes women aged 18+ years who receive outpatient primary care services from the University Hospitals … PCI is owned and operated by University Hospitals Health System (UHHS), UH Medical Practices (UHMP) … Lead organization University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH Urology Institute, UH Primary Care … Hijaz, MD, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Goutham Rao, MD, University Hospitals Cleveland … Goutham Rao, MD Co-PI Chairman, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, University Hospitals

419. The California Quality Collaborative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/priorities-in-action/california-quality-collaborative.html
     March 01, 2017 - Through the Avoid Readmissions through Collaboration (ARC) program, hospitals implement processes known … Hospitals participating in ARC have realized an 8 percent reduction in 30-day all-cause readmission rate … Communication between providers is facilitated through information exchanges between the hospital, clinics … , and care transition teams, who follow patients from the hospital to the home. … pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar control by 2 percent; and reducing cost by 5 percent through lower hospital

420. A Path to Rural Diagnostic Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-rural-healthcare1.html
     October 01, 2024 - areas are defined as those with fewer than 2,000 housing units or 5,000 residents. 7,8 Small rural hospitals … make up 30 percent of all U.S. hospitals 9 and are vital in providing care services to approximately … interventions. 11,15   A 2020 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) report, Examining Rural Hospital … Bypass for Inpatient Services , detailed numerous factors leading to rural hospital avoidance. … reputation, 16 indicating that when initial care is established with a physician at another nonrural hospital