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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/883.html
October 01, 2023 - Family-Observed Quality and Safety Concerns Can Improve Hospital Care for Children With Medical Complexity … Family-Observed Quality and Safety Concerns Can Improve Hospital Care for Children With Medical Complexity … Hospitals can improve the quality and safety of care for children with medical complexity by actively … Researchers concluded that soliciting and listening to patient/family expertise can improve the patient … These resources aim to improve skills in the use of screening for UAU, brief intervention for those at
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/research-meetings/index.html
January 01, 2024 - research meeting explored how data from CAHPS surveys and other patient experience information can improve … How better communication with patients can improve patient safety and lower malpractice risks. … topics:
What we know from prior research about the organizational factors and environment needed to improve … different healthcare settings are using CAHPS survey results, other data, and targeted strategies to improve … What evaluations of improvement initiatives using CAHPS data can teach us about what it takes to improve
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight06.html
January 01, 2014 - What We Learned
How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve … How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve … This Highlight illustrates how States are using the partnerships to improve the quality of children … they can draw on a wider pool of resources and expertise and apply lessons learned from each other to improve … Through these arrangements, the partnerships are implementing a variety of projects to improve the quality
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October 01, 2015 - How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working to improve adolescent health care? … How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve the quality of health care for … How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children’s health … Engaging stakeholders to improve the quality of children’s health care
Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts … After the demonstration: what States sustain after the end of Federal grants to improve children’s health
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January 01, 2024 - workforce, strengthen partnerships, conduct research, and, most importantly, implement innovations that improve … scientists' research to optimize care as quickly, broadly, and equitably as possible and ultimately improve … settings, engage communities and other health system stakeholders in novel ways, and promote research to improve … discovery to the use of knowledge in practice and to facilitate rapid implementation of evidence to improve
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/health-promotion-education/strategy6j-support-self-care.html
March 01, 2020 - Section 3: Are You Ready To Improve? … To Approach the Quality Improvement Process
Section 5: Determining Where To Focus Efforts To Improve … groups and self-care programs can increase patients' knowledge about their disease and, in some cases, improve … Specifically, support groups were found to: 1 , 5
Increase communication with physicians
Improve … Evidence suggesting that a chronic disease self-management program can improve health status while reducing
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August 01, 2023 - New Toolkits Can Help Improve Patient Safety for Mothers and Their Newborns . … Issue Brief Describes How Artificial Intelligence May Improve Diagnostic Team Safety . … New Toolkits Can Help Improve Patient Safety for Mothers and Their Newborns
Two new AHRQ toolkits are … available to improve the safety culture of labor and delivery units and decrease maternal and neonatal … Expanding our methodological toolbox to improve quality: the role of mixed-methods evaluations.
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/public-notes-meeting-summary-110620.pdf
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
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/tcd/key-driver.html
September 01, 2021 - Diagrams are designed to help guide states, health plans and health systems in implementing strategies to improve … Health plans had systems in place for using care management to improve care for chronic diseases, but … QMETRIC also shared state-wide performance data and discussed strategies for how they might attempt to improve … QI initiatives, especially without financial incentives, will face significant challenges but will improve … financial incentive pool to this and other measures is unique and has great potential to substantially improve
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January 01, 2018 - Oregon identified ways to improve
child-focused quality measures
Before the CHIPRA quality demonstration … Spotlight on Oregon
January 2018
Oregon’s Goals: Improve the quality of care for children by—
• Reporting … Practices also worked to
improve population management by developing strategies
to identify children … • Evaluation Highlight No. 6: How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States
working together to improve … Nine states’ use of collaboratives to
improve children’s health care quality in Medicaid and CHIP.
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September 08, 2015 - 2010, the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded 10 grants,
funding 18 States, to improve … How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration
States working to improve adolescent
health care? … Strategies to improve care include
encouraging providers to assess patient
risk using questionnaires … In addition to these four States, other
CHIPRA States are working to improve care
for adolescents … Utah Pediatric Partnership to Improve
Healthcare Quality. Archived presentations.
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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 … 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
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www.healthcare411.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
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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
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/finalsummary/finalsummary2.html
September 01, 2015 - and their families
Applying health information technologies (IT) for QI
Building partnerships to improve … accurately reporting the core measures to CMS, and (2) develop strategies for using the core measures to improve … Lessons learned
States can substantially improve their capacity to report quality measures for children … incomplete or inconsistent documentation in EHRs and paper charts means that practices first have to improve … documentation before they can improve measure reporting.
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/events/2020-meeting-summary.html
December 01, 2020 - health care organizations that are using CAHPS survey results, other data, and targeted strategies to improve … team, sought insights from external and internal sources, conducted a pilot study of a workflow to improve … Methods used to improve CAHPS scores have included incentives for improvement, network curation, steerage … To improve its CAHPS scores, AltaMed developed a shadow coaching program that identifies medium-performing … They identified the need to improve scores on the “listening carefully regarding care problems” composite
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www.healthcare411.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?
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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
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Systems and Behaviors Work Together
To Improve … Learn About CUSP
AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care
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Systems and Behaviors Work Together
To Improve … Learn About CUSP
AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care
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Systems and Behaviors Work Together
To Improve … Learn About CUSP
AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care
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Systems and Behaviors Work Together
To Improve
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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:
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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