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7501. Spotlight on Illinois -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-illinois-state-snapshot.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - engaged 15 practices in a learning collaborative designed to promote medical home transformation and improve … The learning collaborative provided Spotlight on Illinois January 2018 Illinois’s Goals: Improve the … • Despite the availability of resources intended to improve referrals and cross-clinician communication … • Partner with ILPQC to improve efforts to exchange perinatal data and to offer perinatal-focused … Nine states’ use of collaboratives to improve children’s health care quality in Medicaid and CHIP.

7502. AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cpi/about/impact/ahrq-works.pdf
      April 01, 2017 - it into the “how” by providing research-backed, practical tools that doctors and nurses can use to improve … between research and practice to achieve these goals: • Keep patients safe • Help doctors and nurses improve … “If you want a [return] on our basic and clinical investments at NIH, you need AHRQ to improve care … Quality AHRQ develops tools for doctors and nurses to improve safety, quality, and patient engagement … AHRQ supported clinicians in using data to improve care delivery for nearly 30,000 children who have

7503. Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/a3_pdi_selfassessment.docx
      May 12, 2016 - Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … Readiness To Work on the AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators, to evaluate your organization’s readiness to improve … AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … 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

7504. Fuzzy Set Analysis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/coordination/webinar01/fuzzysetsq-a.html
      July 01, 2013 - Fuzzy Set Analysis Presenters' Responses to Questions The following are written responses by Dr. Marcus Thygeson, Dr. Jodi Holtrop, and Dr. Michael Harrison to questions that were sent in during the webinar but could not be answered within the one-hour time frame. These responses were edited by the Moderator,…

7505. PCMH Research Methods Webinar Series | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/coordination/pcmh-research-methods.html
      June 01, 2014 - PCMH Research Methods Webinar Series The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Research Methods Series, funded by AHRQ, is designed to expand awareness of methods to evaluate and refine PCMH models and other health care interventions. These novel and underused methods can be used by evaluators and implementers…

7506. Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/a4_pdi_casestudy.pdf
      December 01, 2015 - Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … description of the tools the hospital chose to use, as well as several of the key actions it took to improve … i Tool A.4 Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality … results, the hospital plans to extend the initiative to other units, and expand their efforts to improve … The results helped to identify several opportunities to improve as an organization, such as enhancing

7507. Spotlight on Wyoming -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-wyoming-state-snapshot.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - Spotlight on Wyoming January 2018 Wyoming’s Goals: Improve services for children with complex behavioral … needs by— • Piloting a care management entity (CME) to improve coordination across child-serving … • CME providers used health IT to improve services. … • Work to improve the quality of CME services. … • Continue to improve the functionality of health IT and to educate CME providers about health IT

7508. Staff Member Survey for Physicians (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/physician-survey-post-intervention-nw.pdf
      January 01, 2014 - have many opportunities to grow in my work      People in our practice actively seek new ways to improve … job of assessing patients’ needs and expectations      Our practice uses data from patients to improve … rate your agreement whether these new guidelines will lead to better outcomes for your patients: Improve … outcomes for all my patients Improve outcomes for some patients Have no impact on outcomes … outcomes for all my patients Improve outcomes for some patients No impact on outcomes

7509. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/science-of-safety-facguide.docx
      January 01, 2017 - on systems rather than individuals, we realize that we can redesign care and delivery processes to improve … How can staff and others in the clinical area improve communication? … In order to do this effectively, providers must develop or improve the ability to learn from mistakes … Not only can we use those principles to improve the technical aspects of our work, such as low tidal … This brief video reinforces this idea by emphasizing how these principles can improve safety efforts

7510. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Learn About the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/learn/learn-about-cusp.pptx
      May 01, 2017 - safety tools and approaches Based on the understanding that all culture is local, and that work to improve … Learn About CUSP AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care 16 Systems and Behaviors Work Together To Improve … Learn About CUSP AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care 17 Systems and Behaviors Work Together To Improve … Learn About CUSP AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care 18 Systems and Behaviors Work Together To Improve … Learn About CUSP AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care 19 Systems and Behaviors Work Together To Improve

7511. How CAHPS Surveys Measure Patient Experience | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/podcasts/measure-patient-experience-podcast.html
      March 01, 2017 - and explains how CAHPS surveys capture information on patient experience that providers can use to improve … Agency tasked with developing and disseminating scientific knowledge, tools, and data to improve the … important to patients so that the survey gives you information that providers and facilities can use to improve … The surveys are all designed to provide information a health care organization can use to improve care … CAHPS surveys to identify strengths and weaknesses in their performance, determine where they need to improve

7512. Enhancing Performance Via Integrated Health Systems (ppt file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/system/delivery-system-initiative/casalino/casalino.ppt
      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

7513. Oregon State at a Glance (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/orstateataglance.pdf
      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 … will collect, report, and test the use of the initial core set of children’s quality measures and improve … categories are projects that (1) show how a core set of children’s quality measures can be used to improve …                                                                            Using Health IT to Improve

7514. Florida State at a Glance (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/flstateataglance.pdf
      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 … In conjunction with Illinois, Florida will support collaborative quality improvement projects to improve … categories are projects that (1) show how a core set of children’s quality measures can be used to improve …                                                                                    Using Health IT to Improve

7515. State at a Glance: Vermont | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/vt.html
      March 01, 2019 - agendas Evaluation Highlight No. 6 : How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve … Top of Page   Vermont's Objectives Using Health IT to Improve Child Health Care Quality Vermont's … The State's goal is to improve the collection and use of child health quality information by expanding … and other resources: The National Improvement Partnership Network: State-Based Partnerships That Improve … Network , which is helping 20 States develop sustainable State-level improvement partnerships working to improve

7516. State at a Glance: West Virginia | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/wv.html
      March 01, 2019 - Evaluation Highlight No. 6 : How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve … Evaluation Highlight No. 13: How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve … Article: Nine States’ Use of Collaboratives to Improve Children’s Health Care Quality in Medicaid and … the five grant categories: Showing how a core set of children's quality measures can be used to improve … Using Health IT to Improve Child Health Care Quality West Virginia will use a Web-based reporting system

7517. Introduction and Purpose | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2018 - for example, provide close to 95 percent of their own care. 1 It makes sense, then, that one way to improve … example, trips to the emergency room) that result from poor management of chronic conditions and to improve … Recent reviews suggest that self-management support can improve outcomes for different chronic conditions … programs used by health plans, insurers, employers, public providers, and payers such as Medicaid to improve

7518. The Challenge and Potential for Assuring Quality Health Care for the 21st Century | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-measures/21st-century/index.html
      June 01, 2018 - It also underscores why a national effort is needed to improve the quality of health care. … The Need for a National Effort While there have been successful efforts to improve health outcomes, … Support the focused development of quality measures that enhance and improve the ability to evaluate … and improve care. … The Council and the Forum are part of the Quality Commission's overall recommendations to improve the

7519. Georgia State at a Glance (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/gastateataglance.pdf
      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

7520. Maryland State at a Glance (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/mdstateataglance.pdf
      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