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221. Strategy 6H: Tools To Help Patients Communicate Their Needs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2023 - Section 3: Are You Ready To Improve? … To Approach the Quality Improvement Process Section 5: Determining Where To Focus Efforts To Improve … The Intervention Health plans, medical groups, and physician practices can help patients improve their … A randomized trial of the use of patient self-assessment data to improve community practices. … Coached care programs have been shown to improve both physiologic and functional outcomes. 4 , 5 In

222. Equity Focus Recommended in Development and Use of Algorithms in Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2023 - Family-Observed Quality and Safety Concerns Can Improve Hospital Care for Children With Medical Complexity … Family-Observed Quality and Safety Concerns Can Improve Hospital Care for Children With Medical Complexity … Hospitals can improve the quality and safety of care for children with medical complexity by actively … Researchers concluded that soliciting and listening to patient/family expertise can improve the patient … These resources aim to improve skills in the use of screening for UAU, brief intervention for those at

223. CAHPS Research Meetings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - research meeting explored how data from CAHPS surveys and other patient experience information can improve … How better communication with patients can improve patient safety and lower malpractice risks. … topics: What we know from prior research about the organizational factors and environment needed to improve … different healthcare settings are using CAHPS survey results, other data, and targeted strategies to improve … What evaluations of improvement initiatives using CAHPS data can teach us about what it takes to improve

224. AHRQ and PCORI Invest in Learning Health Systems Scientist Training | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - workforce, strengthen partnerships, conduct research, and, most importantly, implement innovations that improve … scientists' research to optimize care as quickly, broadly, and equitably as possible and ultimately improve … settings, engage communities and other health system stakeholders in novel ways, and promote research to improve … discovery to the use of knowledge in practice and to facilitate rapid implementation of evidence to improve

225. Strategy 6J: Support Groups and Self-Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2020 - Section 3: Are You Ready To Improve? … To Approach the Quality Improvement Process Section 5: Determining Where To Focus Efforts To Improve … groups and self-care programs can increase patients' knowledge about their disease and, in some cases, improve … Specifically, support groups were found to: 1 , 5 Increase communication with physicians Improve … Evidence suggesting that a chronic disease self-management program can improve health status while reducing

226. EvidenceNOW: Oklahoma Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - critical infrastructure (Primary Healthcare Extension System) to help smaller primary care practices improve … Provide technical support to primary care practices to help them implement PCOR-based methods to improve … Lessons learned from high performing practices will be disseminated to all practices to help them improve … Press Release: OU researchers get $15 million federal grant to improve heart health in state [Tulsa

227. SOPS® Value and Efficiency Supplemental Items for the SOPS Hospital Survey - English (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - below along with the internal consistency reliability scores (Cronbach’s alpha).1 • Empowerment to Improve … In our unit, we are working to improve patient flow. .............................................. … Recognizes us for our ideas to improve efficiency ................................................. … 1 2 3 4 5 9 3 Section E: Experience With Activities To Improve Efficiency In the past … I shadowed/followed patients in this hospital to identify ways to improve their care experience. .

228. Register Now: August 22 Webinar by National Action Alliance Will Address Engaging Boards and Executive Leadership in Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - New Toolkits Can Help Improve Patient Safety for Mothers and Their Newborns . … Issue Brief Describes How Artificial Intelligence May Improve Diagnostic Team Safety . … New Toolkits Can Help Improve Patient Safety for Mothers and Their Newborns Two new AHRQ toolkits are … available to improve the safety culture of labor and delivery units and decrease maternal and neonatal … Expanding our methodological toolbox to improve quality: the role of mixed-methods evaluations.

229. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Health Care (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2021 - convene a cross agency working group that will propose a strategy to enhance scientific research to improve … Stewardship (MIDAS) Program: This mentoring program is designed to assist clinics and hospitals to improve … One article focuses on diagnostic safety and highlights the VA’s efforts to improve the timeliness

230. Improving Value and Efficiency in Hospitals and Medical Offices: A Resource List for Users of the AHRQ SOPS Value and Efficiency Supplemental Item Sets (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2023 - Empowerment To Improve Efficiency ...................................................... 3 Composite … Empowerment To Improve Efficiency 1. … Resources by Additional Measures Experience With Activities To Improve Efficiency 1. … Empowerment To Improve Efficiency 1. … Resources by Additional Measures Experience With Activities To Improve Efficiency 1.

231. Team-Antibiotic-Review-Form (doc file)
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     November 01, 2019 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use Team Antibiotic Review Form *Questions 1–6 should be answered for all patients you evaluate who are actively receiving antibiotics. Question 1: Day of antibiotic therapy (choose one) ☐Day 1 ☐Day 2 ☐Day 3 ☐Day 4 ☐Day 5 ☐Day 6 ☐> 7 Days Question 2: Record antibi…

232. Information to Help Hospitals Get Started (doc file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Building patient and family engagement into your hospital’s current policies and practices can help: Improve … quality and safety Improve financial performance Improve CAHPS® Hospital Survey scores Improve patient … It is a critical part of what your hospital is already doing to improve quality and safety. … When your approach to care centers on patients and families, they become allies in your efforts to improve … Looking to improve financial results? Start by listening to patients.

233. Enhancing Performance Via Integrated Health Systems (ppt file)
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     February 16, 2011 - providers into high performing organizations and give these organizations incentives to continually improve … these organizations and to movement of providers into them identify incentives for organizations to improve … depends on the way it is implemented and on the context within which it is implemented most attempts to improve … the demography of organizations in the delivery system continual efforts by these organizations to improve … hard to improve what you can’t measure we often measure less, rather than more, important things increased

234. Five Nebraska Hospitals Use AHRQ Toolkit to Improve Medication Reconciliation Across Care Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Newsroom Impact Case Studies Five Nebraska Hospitals Use AHRQ Toolkit to Improve … Blog Newsletter Events Five Nebraska Hospitals Use AHRQ Toolkit to Improve … originally created March 2012 Internet Citation: Five Nebraska Hospitals Use AHRQ Toolkit to Improve

235. Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement Using CAHPS® Surveys: Summary of Presentations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2020 - health care organizations that are using CAHPS survey results, other data, and targeted strategies to improve … team, sought insights from external and internal sources, conducted a pilot study of a workflow to improve … Methods used to improve CAHPS scores have included incentives for improvement, network curation, steerage … To improve its CAHPS scores, AltaMed developed a shadow coaching program that identifies medium-performing … They identified the need to improve scores on the “listening carefully regarding care problems” composite

236. Guide To Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - • Plan provides the steps to prepare to improve performance, including identifying opportunities … A few questions to reflect on as a team include— • Would it improve outcomes? … • How might it improve residents’ experience? … • How might it improve frontline staffs’ experience? … • How might it improve physicians’/nurses’ experience? • How will it help you care for residents?

237. Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     Improving Patient Experience Survey results help health care organizations improve patient care experiences … healthcare organizations use data to identify strengths and weaknesses, determine where they need to improve

238. Patient Safety Research Summaries | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - involving patients, families, and caregivers in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of care can improve … aesthetic details of healthcare facilities (e.g., units, rooms, equipment, logistics, and technologies) can improve … Since 2000, AHRQ has supported 55 patient safety projects to improve communication between healthcare

239. AHRQ Research Funding Priorities & Special Emphasis Notices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - Priorities & Special Emphasis Notices AHRQ Announces Interest in Health Services Research to Improve … Enhanced Care Planning AHRQ Announces Interest in Research that Uses Shared Decision Making as a Tool to Improve … Outcomes Advancing the Collection and Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Patient Contextual Data to Improve

240. Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement (pdf file)
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     June 05, 2016 - Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve