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7781. Guide To Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/implementing-guide.pdf
      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?

7782. Guide to Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/guide.html
      March 01, 2017 - The Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) is a change model designed to improve resident safety … 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?

7783. CUSP Guide for Reducing Ventilator-Associated Events in Mechanically Ventilated Patients (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/cusp-mvpguide.pdf
      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

7784. Summary of the Design Plan for the National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/design_plan_for_chipra.pdf
      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

7785. Spotlight on Florida -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstraiton Grant Program (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-florida-state-snapshot.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model—a specific approach to primary care designed to improve … in Florida’s first PCMH learning collaborative Spotlight on Florida January 2018 Florida’s Goals: Improve … Nine hospitals participated in a QI project designed to improve delivery room management. … • Evaluation Highlight No. 6: How are the CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve … Nine states’ use of collaboratives to improve children’s health care quality in Medicaid and CHIP.

7786. 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.

7787. Information to Help Hospitals Get Started (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/How_PFE_Benefits_Hosp_508.pdf
      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 … 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.

7788. AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2011 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/haify11.pdf
      January 01, 2011 - A core part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ’s) mission is to improve the safety … in Health Care • www.ahrq.gov Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality The mission of AHRQ is to improve … the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care by: • Using evidence to improve health … Setting: Ambulatory surgery Goals: The goals of this project are to determine the epidemiology and improve … The central hypothesis of this project is that an evidence-based intervention to improve environmental

7789. 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

7790. 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

7791. 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

7792. 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

7793. 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

7794. 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

7795. Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/qitool/index.html
      March 01, 2017 - Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety The … use the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), including the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), to track and improve … Guidance that can be used to improve pediatric quality in hospitals using the PDIs or other quality measures … Implementing Evidence-Based Strategies To Improve Clinical Care. … : a step-by-step method for calculating the return on investment for an intervention implemented to improve

7796. 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

7797. 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

7798. 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

7799. 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

7800. 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