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141. AHRQ Tools Help Wisconsin Hospitals Post Big Quality, Safety Gains | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201527.html
     September 01, 2015 - All Impact Case Studies September 2015 Several AHRQ resources have helped Wisconsin hospitals improve … WHA achieved that goal for its work to improve adverse drug events and early elective deliveries. … AHRQ's CUSP, RED Toolkit, and other resources have helped WHA member hospitals improve hospital safety … with CUSP, AHRQ's RED Toolkit has helped many hospitals in Wisconsin reduce 30-day readmissions and improve … The ready-to-use toolkits give us a real head start on what to improve."

142. Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20140115_DB/5_Francis_Fullam_slide_45-52.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance ® Lessons Learned

143. Introduction to the Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators: How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/a1_pdi_intro.pdf
     January 01, 1993 - Introduction to the Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators: How To Improve Hospital … Quality and Safety Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital … AHRQ’s mission is to: • Invest in research and evidence to make health care safer and improve quality … • Create materials to teach and train health care systems and professionals to help them improve … • Generate measures and data used to track and improve performance and evaluate progress of the U.S

144. Preface | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2022 - messages from the IOM report is that the health care system needed to put that knowledge to work to improve … bottom line is that while we certainly have made progress over the last 5 years in taking steps to improve … The health care system still faces the challenge of ensuring that this knowledge is used every day to improve … articles that address implementation issues and provide useful tools and products that can be used to improve … that the information and knowledge contained in these volumes will fuel the momentum of efforts to improve

145. Chien, Alyna | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/grants/active/kawards/Kawdsum19.html
     October 01, 2014 - Institution: University of Chicago Grant Title: Do Performance Incentives Improve Healthcare Quality … $623,800 Project Description: This research hypothesizes that performance incentives can significantly improve … There are two aims: Determine whether incentivized components of care for chronic conditions improve … Determine whether unincentivized components of care for related and unrelated conditions improve after

146. Appendix A: Guide to Online Resources Successfully Used by Hospitals to Improve Patient Flow | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2020 - Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals Appendix A: Guide to Online Resources Successfully Used by Hospitals to Improve … Sharing Results References Appendix A: Guide to Online Resources Successfully Used by Hospitals to Improve … toolkit includes over 50 examples of proven strategies to reduce emergency department (ED) crowding and improve … (AHRQ) Innovations Exchange The Innovations Exchange includes over 75 examples of innovations to improve … improvement stories and eight emerging content resources focusing on the following categories: how to improve

147. 7. Conclusions and Recommendations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2021 - HSR findings have been used to improve the design of health care benefits, inform health care policy, … Consistent with this broad acknowledgment of the many meaningful contributions of HSR and PCR to improve … the impact of HSR (Table 7.2); and, recommendations to improve the impact of PCR (Table 7.3). … Improve Relevance and Timeliness of HSR and PCR The study identified the need to improve the relevance … Improve Translation of HSR and PCR Findings into Practice The study identified a need to improve the

148. S5: Developing a Mobile Tool to Improve Self-Care and Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Chronic Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/spotlight-s5-jih.html
     May 01, 2024 - Investments in Primary Care Research for 2021 and 2022 S5: Developing a Mobile Tool to Improve Self-Care … Appendix D: Grant Summaries P1: Does A New Care Model Improve Care for Patients with Acute Kidney Injury … P9: Using a Mobile Health Tool to Improve Patient-Centered Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes P10 … S7: Identifying How to Improve Health Outcomes for Children in Foster Care S8: Understanding How Nurse … AHRQ Primary Care Priority Area Research to improve primary care, including regarding quality, access

149. Final Progress Report: REdesigning SystEms to Improve Teamwork and Quality for Hospitalized Patients (RESET) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/oleary-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: REdesigning SystEms to Improve Teamwork and Quality for Hospitalized Patients … (RESET) AHRQ Grant Final Progress Report Title of Project: REdesigning SystEms to Improve Teamwork … Grant Award Number: R18 HS25649 R18 HS25649 Redesigning Systems to Improve Quality for Hospitalized … R18 HS25649 Redesigning Systems to Improve Quality for Hospitalized Patients Table 5. … R18 HS25649 Redesigning Systems to Improve Quality for Hospitalized Patients Table 7.

150. The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide: Are You Ready To Improve? (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/3-are-you-ready/cahps-ambulatory-care-guide-section-3.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - Why Improve Patient Experience? 3. Are You Ready to Improve? 4. … Are You Ready To Improve? May 2017 3-1 3. ARE YOU READY TO IMPROVE? … Are You Ready To Improve? … Are You Ready To Improve? … Are You Ready To Improve?

151. AHRQ Highlights Urgent Need for Research to Improve Delivery of Preventive Services to People with Disabilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders AHRQ Highlights Urgent Need for Research to Improve Delivery … mandate in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, AHRQ recently delivered to Congress “ Research to Improve … This includes innovative proposals to reduce quality of care disparities, increase patient safety, improve … healthcare access and effectiveness, and ultimately improve health outcomes for people with disabilities … devoted to working with public and private partners to advance research and assist in actions that improve

152. Final Progress Report: Conference Proceedings: Interventions to Improve Quality in the Crowded Emergency Department (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/pines-mccarthy-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Conference Proceedings: Interventions to Improve Quality in the Crowded Emergency … TITLEPAGE Title: Conference Proceedings: Interventions to Improve Quality in the Crowded Emergency … and applied science (i.e., do checklists improve ED safety at more crowded times?). … Executive Summary: Interventions to Improve Quality in the Crowded Emergency Department. … Title: Conference Proceedings: Interventions to Improve Quality in the Crowded 2.

153. A Practice-based Intervention to Improve Care for a Diverse Population of Women with Urinary Incontinence (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/projects/urinary/evidencenow-optima.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - A Practice-based Intervention to Improve Care for a Diverse Population of Women with Urinary Incontinence … A Practice-based Intervention to Improve Care for a Diverse Population of Women with Urinary … Incontinence Pr This practice-based intervention seeks to improve the quality of care for women with … the effect of implementation on referral rates to specialists (with the goal to reduce rates), 3) improve … Improve the quality of incontinence care provided to an ethnically diverse population of women through

154. Recognizing and Supporting Nurses in Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/nurse-role-dxsafety3.html
     September 01, 2022 - SIDM Competencies To Improve Diagnosis and Suggested Questions for Debriefing Case Studies … from the diagnostic safety literature 6-16 highlight actions nurse leaders and educators can take to improve … with the medical or healthcare team, and existing diagnostic societies and groups (e.g., Society to Improve … Introduce the TeamSTEPPS® for Diagnosis Improvement program or Toolkit for Engaging Patients To Improve … patients, families, and providers to work together as partners to improve diagnostic safety.

155. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2015 - Toolkit The ESRD Toolkit was developed during a 2-year project called the National Opportunity To Improve … this problem, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded the National Opportunity To Improve … vascular access infections Identify and enhance best practices for infection control among clinicians Improve … developing a process for helping facility staff understand infection control practices and ways to improve

156. Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/otherwebsites/PBRN/pbrn.html
     September 01, 2018 - clinicians in quality improvement activities and an evidence-based culture in primary care practice to improve … experience and insight of practicing clinicians to identify and frame research questions whose answers can improve … Wellness Portal , a patient-centered, prevention oriented, Web-based personal health record that can help improve … for information exchange empower the participants through expert consulting and training to share and improve

157. Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action - Issue Brief 5 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/dx-leadership.pdf
     June 03, 2021 - Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action - Issue Brief 5 PATIENT SAFETY e Issue Brief 5 … Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action e Issue Brief 5 Leadership To Improve Diagnosis … Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action. … Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. https://www.improvediagnosis.org/. … “To improve is to change”: improving U.S. healthcare. Am J Med Sci. 2016 Jan;351(1):1-2.

158. Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action - Issue Brief 5 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/dx-leadership-cx.pdf
     June 03, 2021 - Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action - Issue Brief 5 PATIENT SAFETY e Issue Brief 5 … Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action e Issue Brief 5 Leadership To Improve Diagnosis … Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action. … Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. https://www.improvediagnosis.org/. … “To improve is to change”: improving U.S. healthcare. Am J Med Sci. 2016 Jan;351(1):1-2.

159. Using Data To Drive Change and Improve Patient Safety Facilitator Notes (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/data-change-notes.docx
     April 01, 2022 - Using Data To Drive Change and Improve Patient Safety Facilitator Notes CUSP Module: Using Data To … Drive Change and Improve Patient Safety Facilitator Guide Slide Number and Image This module, “Using … Data To Drive Change and Improve Patient Safety” is part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … This module will discuss data to drive change and improve patient safety, and will review the ICU assessment … · Would the goal improve outcomes? Specifically, would it reduce rates of CLABSI and/or CAUTI?

160. Using the Core Set of Quality Measures for Children to Improve Children’s Health Care (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/childhealth/usingthecoresetofqm.pdf
     February 01, 2010 - Using the Core Set of Quality Measures for Children to Improve Children’s Health Care Grant Category … Overview Using the Core Set of Quality Measures for Children to Improve Children’s Health Care Overview … Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded grants to 10 States under a 5-year, $100 million effort to improve … categories are projects that (1) show how a core set of children’s quality measures can be used to improve … Evaluating The Projects In the context of multiple efforts to improve measures of the quality of health