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7541. Summary of the Design Plan for the National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2012 - • Grantees working in Category B will develop or enhance health information technology (IT) to improve … Among these is the patient-centered medical home, which aims to improve complex care management and … • Examining the contributions of demonstration activities to improve quality of care in relation … • What health IT or health IT enhancements were designed to improve the quality of children’s health … • How was the health IT used to improve quality of care for children enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP, and

7542. CUSP Guide for Reducing Ventilator-Associated Events in Mechanically Ventilated Patients (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2017 - You can redesign your care system through technical and adaptive work to improve patient safety and … The five-step CUSP process brings adaptive work into the change process and helps your team improve … CUSP Is Local CUSP can improve teamwork and safety culture on a large scale. … CUSP helps your team improve local safety culture by tapping frontline wisdom. … Step 5: Improve Teamwork and Communication Use tools to improve teamwork and communication in the unit

7543. Georgia State at a Glance (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2012 - Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded grants to 10 States under a 5‐year, $100 million effort to improve … As one of the States in this tri‐State partnership, Georgia is working to expand an existing CME to improve … Georgia aims to improve: 1) access to home and community‐based services; 2) clinical and functional … categories are projects that (1) show how a core set of children’s quality measures can be used to improve …  To what extent did Georgia’s efforts to expand the CME model improve quality of care for youth with

7544. North Carolina State at a Glance (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2012 - Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded grants to 10 States under a 5‐year, $100 million effort to improve … the five grant categories:  Showing how a core set of children’s quality measures can be used to improve … categories are projects that (1) show how a core set of children’s quality measures can be used to improve … attributes: (1) adequacy in addressing gaps in current EHR products for children; (2) capability to improve …  To what extent did the State’s medical home model improve quality of care for children with behavioral

7545. Maryland State at a Glance (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2012 - Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded grants to 10 States under a 5‐year, $100 million effort to improve … Maryland’s Objectives Maryland is working to expand its existing CME model to improve the quality and … Specifically, Maryland aims to improve: 1) access to home‐ and community‐based services; 2) clinical … categories are projects that (1) show how a core set of children’s quality measures can be used to improve …  To what extent did Maryland’s efforts to expand the CME model improve quality of care for youth with

7546. Implementation Plan (pdf file)
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      June 29, 2016 - Implementation Plan Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety ii Tool … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 1 Tool D … Yes No Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and … Yes No Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and

7547. Spotlight on Idaho -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2018 - Idaho used IT to improve the quality of health care for children Idaho adopted two IT strategies to … improve the exchange of health information and enhance care coordination. … • Evaluation Highlight No. 6: How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve … • Implementation Guide No. 1: Engaging stakeholders to improve the quality of children’s health care. … • Practices used demonstration funds to hire new staff to improve care coordination and support medical

7548. Spotlight on Georgia -- National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2018 - Georgia’s goal was to develop a standardized peer support training and certification process to improve … • Refining care management entities to improve coordination across child-serving agencies. … its Medicaid program during the grant period also limited the State’s ability to make changes to improve … However, the State’s ability to expand and improve CME services during the grant period was limited … • Implementation Guide No. 1: Engaging Stakeholders to Improve the Quality of Children’s Health Care

7549. A3 Combo Selfassessment (doc file)
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      June 27, 2014 - Readiness To Work on the AHRQ Quality Indicators, to evaluate your organization’s readiness to improve … Identifying and addressing barriers to change will improve your hospital’s success in implementing successful … AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital … Training We provide ongoing training for staff that helps them build skills to improve quality … Results focused · We continuously strive to improve and we benchmark our performance against

7550. The Timeline to Diagnostic Safety SIDM -Research as a Priority (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2017 - gmail.com VISION: Creating a world where no patients are harmed by diagnostic error Society to Improve … Japan, China WHO discussions Australia CEC: Red Team – Blue Team Take 2: Stop and Do Coalition to Improve … Partnership of Women and Families National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Society to Improve … How can we improve clinical reasoning ? What interventions work ?? … Can we improve intuition?Affective Bias Cognitive Bias What interventions work?

7551. Vt-Spotlight (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2015 - Spotlight on Vermont July 2015 Vermont’s Goals: Improve quality of care for children by— • Engaging … Using demonstration funds to improve the functionality of the electronic registry for child-serving … • Helped practices use electronic data to improve care. … • Evaluation Highlight No. 6: How are the CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve … • Implementation Guide No. 1: Engaging Stakeholders to Improve the Quality of Children’s Health Care

7552. The SHARE Approach, Tool 4: Health Literacy Shared Decisionmaking (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2014 - Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT): http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention- chronic-care/improve … /professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/self-mgmt/pemat/index.html http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals … Assessment Tool (PEMAT)* and User’s Guide http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve … literacy-toolkit/healthliteracytoolkit.pdf http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve … /self-mgmt/pemat/index.html http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/self-mgmt

7553. Prologue: Technology and Medication Safety (pdf file)
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      July 25, 2008 - faced and overcome if we are to make the most of health IT and its seemingly limitless potential to improve … minimize unintended consequences and maximize the potential of e-prescribing 1 technology to improve … Many approaches have been proposed and tried over the years to improve medication management and minimize … papers in this volume present a wide array of approaches that use health IT and other mechanisms to improve … the delivery of safe and appropriate care, improve medication safety, and make the most efficient and

7554. A simple question can reveal as much as a test. "What are our goals for today?" (pdf file)
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      September 09, 2011 - Not only does that improve efficiencies, but it also helps improve health outcomes.

7555. Guide to Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2017 - To achieve results and improve the quality of care, a LTC facility needs to understand what resources … 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? … Prior to implementing clinical and cultural interventions to improve resident safety, leaders need to

7556. Colorado State at a Glance (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2012 - Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded grants to 10 States under a 5‐year, $100 million effort to improve … Colorado’s Objectives Colorado is working to help school‐based health centers (SBHCs) improve the quality … The quality improvement coaches will work with SBHCs to implement these strategies and develop or improve … categories are projects that (1) show how a core set of children’s quality measures can be used to improve

7557. New Mexico State at a Glance (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2012 - Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded grants to 10 States under a 5‐year, $100 million effort to improve … New Mexico’s Objectives New Mexico is working to help school‐based health centers (SBHCs): improve … The quality improvement coaches will work with SBHCs to implement these strategies and develop or improve … categories are projects that (1) show how a core set of children’s quality measures can be used to improve

7558. Harnessing the Potential of Health Care Collaboratives: Lessons from the Keystone ICU Project (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2008 - Improve upon quality improvement models. Leadership is often independent of authority. … Educate staff about the evidence supporting practices known to improve outcomes. 3. … Conclusion The science of how to broadly improve quality of care is growing. … The tension between needing to improve care and knowing how to do it. … Collaborating across organizational boundaries to improve the quality of care.

7559. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2014 - influence on the structure adopted by the organization and on the processes it uses to provide and improve … Second, the paper suggests that the best way to improve the quality and to contain the cost of health … , and other providers into high-performing organizations and to give them incentives to continually improve … Identifying the types of incentives that induce these organizations to continually improve care. … Seeking ways to improve the measurement of provider performance.

7560. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Southwest Cooperative (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2017 - health care delivery by building a critical infrastructure to help smaller primary care practices improve … Comment from Principal Investigator “EvidenceNOW has provided a tremendous opportunity for our region to improve … new models of advanced primary care, and to build a workforce to align and coordinate efforts to improve … 2017] • Study Design Challenges and Solutions for Implementing the EvidenceNOW Southwest Trial to Improve … Cardiovascular Health [NAPCRG, 2017] • Using Electronic Clinical Quality Measures Data to Improve