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321. New Study Shows Reduced Antibiotic Use at Long-term Care Facilities Participating in HHS-funded Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2022 - “There are practical, evidence-based steps long-term care facilities can take to improve antibiotic use … programs (ASPs) are designed to address this by promoting the appropriate use of antibiotic medications to improve … findings from the facilities that participated in this safety program, AHRQ released the Toolkit to Improve

322. AHRQ and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Collaborate to Train a New Generation of Learning Health System Scientists | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - systems are able to generate the best evidence to optimize care they deliver to patients and ultimately improve … with the right skills to explore the relevant evidence and produce insights that can be implemented to improve … to advancing rapid learning projects that spread knowledge, advance health system performance, and improve

323. About Priority Populations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - Assists in the development, dissemination, and application of Agency initiatives and programs to improve … the Agency engages in a variety of activities aiming to address health and health disparities and to improve … Participating on numerous HHS and non-Federal workgroups and committees working to reduce disparities, improve

324. Research Findings & Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - development of various reports to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve … providers, health system administrators, researchers, and government agencies about practices that can improve

325. Identifying Key Areas for Delivery Systems Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - 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 … Most attempts to improve care involve multiple processes; how do we know which are important? … Continual efforts by these organizations to improve the health of their populations of patients. … Hard to improve what you can't measure.

326. Human Factors in Surgery: Shifting the Paradigm on Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2022 - involves analyzing how staff work within existing processes and redesigning them to help surgical teams improve … Catchpole study strategies to improve anesthesia medication delivery, robotic surgery integration, and … His current project aims to develop interventions, improve data-analytic approaches, and study administrative … Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Surgery Toolkit to Promote Safe Surgery Toolkit to Improve

327. Long-term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2021 - and to effectively communicate those changes is one tool nursing home administrators can employ to improve … Assisted Living: State Oversight Practices and State Information Available to Consumers Toolkit To Improve

328. 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

329. Care Management | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - Opportunities Care Management Care management is a set of activities to improve … AHRQ provides data, resources, and research to improve care management of patients with chronic conditions

330. AHRQ Tools To Reduce Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Antibiotic use:  Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals Adverse drug events: Medications … Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP): Toolkit To Improve

331. About SOPS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - The SOPS Program is a full-service program designed to understand, measure, and improve patient safety … Developing materials to design and implement initiatives to improve patient safety culture. … to leadership, providers, and staff in the healthcare organizations to support efforts to assess and improve

332. Sign Up for TeamSTEPPS Training | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - These trainings will prepare participants to improve team communication, manage challenges more collaboratively … , and successfully implement TeamSTEPPS to improve patient care at their organization. 2024 Training … successfully implement these strategies in their own organizations, and be prepared to use TeamSTEPPS to improve

333. Meeting Minutes, April 2019 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2019 - AHRQ works to improve the lives of patients (the “why”), having an aim of increasing care that is safe … and funding a study on data analytics to improve chronic disease management. … Improve the 360-degree understanding of the healthcare system.  … Improve State-specific estimates.  Monitor, track, and fine tune state programs. … Brady described AHRQ’s current efforts to improve diagnosis, that is, to reduce diagnostic errors in

334. Module 32: Improving Self-Management Support (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - List the actions facilitators can take to assist practices to improve self-management support for their … What role can a facilitator play in assisting practices to improve self-management support and why … Self-management support is about helping patients improve or maintain their health during those 8,754 … Available at http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/ prevention-chronic-care/improve/system/pfhandbook/ … /professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/system/pfhandbook/ Primary Care Practice Facilitation

335. Learn Best Practices for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits Acute Care Hospital Toolkit Four Moments Develop and Improve … For information on how the materials below can be integrated into institutional efforts to improve

336. Hospitals and Health Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2022 - Resources Toolkits, recommendations, and other resources for hospitals and hospital administrators to improve … Care Resources Toolkits, recommendations, and other resources for long-term care facilities to improve

337. 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. .

338. 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.

339. Expanding the Toolbox: Methods to Study and Refine Patient-Centered Medical Home Models (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2013 - The goal of these models is to improve quality, cost, and patient and provider experience. … generate evidence that stakeholders (including patients, payers, providers, and employers) can use to improve … To help evaluators and researchers produce robust evidence that can be used to improve primary care, … The topics cover both “evolutionary” ways to improve evaluations—by using traditional health services … provide inspiration, and serve as valuable resources for evaluators and funders of interventions to improve

340. Previous TeamSTEPPS Webinars: 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2017 - December Webinar: Integrating Quality Improvement Methods to Improve Teamwork and Patient Safety This … webinar, "Integrating Quality Improvement Methods to Improve Teamwork and Patient Safety," featured … Specifically, the presentation sought to: Compare two quality improvement models designed to improve … July Webinar: Partnering with Your Malpractice Insurance Program to Improve Safety in Surgery: TeamSTEPPS … They presented their work on the I-PASS study, which aimed to improve safety by standardizing provider