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341. AHRQ Quality Indicator Tools for Data Analytics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2020 - Toolkit) is a free and easy-to-use resource for hospitals planning to use the AHRQ QIs to track and improve … Implementing Evidence-Based Strategies To Improve Clinical Care. … This tool provides a step-by-step method for calculating ROI for a new set of actions implemented to improve … It includes a concise set of tools to facilitate efforts to improve clinical quality and can be used … to improve performance on PDIs and other measures of inpatient pediatric quality.

342. Discharge Instructions Quality: How the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital Improved their Electronic Template for Family/ Caregiver Written Discharge Instructions (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/iowa-case-study.pdf
     January 29, 2021 - to a hospital-wide discharge instructions improvement effort, brought about by a strategic goal to improve … The Collaborative sought to improve overall performance on family/caregiver written discharge instruction … the P-HIP Learning Collaborative, the entire system had recently begun work on a large initiative to improve … • Improve … committee to explore addition of key items that are not automatically included • Constantly evaluate and improve

343. 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

344. Advancing Diagnostic Safety: An AHRQ Leadership Conversation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/diagnostic-safety-conversation.html
     October 01, 2021 - These insights help us think more effectively about solutions that can help prevent errors and improve … Rather, we are examining the whole system and process of diagnosis and how to improve it. … AHRQ has a long history of funding research on how to help healthcare delivery systems improve care, … And, AHRQ has already produced some research and tools that are designed to improve diagnosis. … Other innovators are working to develop patient- and family-centered ways to improve how healthcare teams

345. Advanced Methods in Delivery System Research – Planning, Executing, Analyzing, and Reporting Research on Delivery System Improvement Webinar #1: Fuzzy Set Analysis
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/coordination/webinar03/logic_models.pptx
     July 15, 2013 - and recovery FSPs are client centered and recovery oriented programs that do ‘whatever it takes’ to improve

346. Advanced Methods in Delivery System Research – Planning, Executing, Analyzing, and Reporting Research on Delivery System Improvement Webinar #4: Formative Evaluation
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     July 15, 2013 - Advanced Methods in Delivery System Research – Planning, Executing, Analyzing, and Reporting Research on Delivery System Improvement Webinar #4: Formative Evaluation Advanced Methods in Delivery System Research – Planning, Executing, Analyzing, and Reporting Research on Delivery System Improvement Webinar #4…

347. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Southwest Cooperative (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2017 - health care delivery by building a critical infrastructure to help smaller primary care practices improve … Comment from Principal Investigator “EvidenceNOW has provided a tremendous opportunity for our region to improve … new models of advanced primary care, and to build a workforce to align and coordinate efforts to improve … 2017] • Study Design Challenges and Solutions for Implementing the EvidenceNOW Southwest Trial to Improve … Cardiovascular Health [NAPCRG, 2017] • Using Electronic Clinical Quality Measures Data to Improve

348. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2014 - influence on the structure adopted by the organization and on the processes it uses to provide and improve … Second, the paper suggests that the best way to improve the quality and to contain the cost of health … , and other providers into high-performing organizations and to give them incentives to continually improve … Identifying the types of incentives that induce these organizations to continually improve care. … Seeking ways to improve the measurement of provider performance.

349. State at a Glance: Maryland | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2019 - agendas Evaluation Highlight No . 6: How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve … Top of Page   Maryland's Objectives Maryland is working to expand its existing CME model to improve … Specifically, Maryland aims to improve: 1) access to home- and community-based services; 2) clinical … To what extent did Maryland's efforts to expand the CME model improve outcomes for youth with serious

350. CAHPS In-Center Hemodialysis Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - facilities and End-Stage Renal Disease Networks (known simply as Networks) use this tool to measure and improve … CAHPS Team conducted a pilot project to demonstrate how dialysis facilities can use this survey to improve … the Quality of In-Center Hemodialysis Care CAHPS In-Center Hemodialysis Survey: Using Results to Improve

351. Chien, Alyna | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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

352. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States using quality reports to drive health care improvements for children? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2015 - technical assistance from the State to understand the quality reports and to develop QI efforts to improve … Implemented policy or programmatic changes intended to improve performance on quality measures.   … The public health agency formalized requirements for obesity screening in public health clinics to improve … “Getting feedback from someone outside [of the practice] is really the only way you can improve . . . … Manuscript: Nine States’ Use of Collaboratives to Improve Children’s Health Care Quality in Medicaid

353. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4b_combo_psi05-foreignbody-bestpractices.pdf
     November 01, 2012 - Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … and protocols for all procedures.1,6,7 Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … in the surgical record or operative note.2 Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … as correct (e.g., obese patients, multiple Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve … Bar-coding surgical sponges to improve safety: a randomized controlled trial.

354. Value and Efficiency Supplemental Item Set for Hospital SOPS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - The Value and Efficiency Supplemental Item Set addresses the following topic areas: Empowerment To Improve … Experience With Activities To Improve Efficiency (8 items). … websites that provide practical resources hospitals and medical offices can use to implement changes to improve

355. Value and Efficiency Supplemental Item Set for Medical Office SOPS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/medical-office/supplemental-items/value-efficiency.html
     August 01, 2023 - The Value and Efficiency Supplemental Item Set addresses the following topic areas: Empowerment To Improve … Experience With Activities To Improve Efficiency (8 items). … websites that provide practical resources hospitals and medical offices can use to implement changes to improve

356. AHRQ Announces Funding Available for Expanding Access to Care for People With Long COVID | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2023 - Applications Due April 18 for Funding To Improve Diagnostic Safety . … Applications Due April 18 for Funding To Improve Diagnostic Safety AHRQ’s ongoing efforts to improve … interested in providing support designed to develop, test, and evaluate primary care activities that will improve … Better Understanding,” a goal that AHRQ supports through investments in research and resources that improve

357. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: A Profile (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2016 - AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the health care system and help Americans … system that goes beyond the “what” of health care to understand “how” to make health care safer and improve … research gap and produce information that can be used by health systems throughout the United States to improve … the latest scientific research, tools, and support to over 5,000 primary care physicians that will improve … of Defense, developed Team STEPPS®, a training program designed for health care professionals to improve

358. Study Section Research Foci | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - and Outcomes Research (HEOR) Organization and Functioning of the Healthcare Delivery and Access to improve … HSQR) Identify Risks/Hazards that Lead to Medical Errors and Find Ways to Prevent Medical Errors – Improve … Scopes / Impacts of Medical Errors on Costs/Qualities & Efficiencies/Effectiveness of Cares Examine/Improve

359. Spotlight on Utah -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2018 - statewide in quality improvement (QI) Utah worked with the existing Utah Pediatric Partnership to Improve … (MHI) scores on all six domains over the course of the demonstration (Figure 1).1 Utah used IT to improve … • Evaluation Highlight No. 3: How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working to improve adolescent … • 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.

360. Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-care/lab-testing-toolkit.html
     January 01, 2018 - (Did we improve?) … developed by the University of Colorado: Colorado ACTION Partnership as part of an AHRQ initiative to improve … The purpose of the project was to evaluate and develop a step-by-step guide to improve the usability,