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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/casalino/index.html
December 01, 2017 - 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 … Most attempts to improve care involve multiple processes; how do we know which are important? … Continual efforts by these organizations to improve the health of their populations of patients. … Hard to improve what you can't measure.
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/evaluation/evidence-now-improving-capacity.pdf
January 01, 2018 - capacity as the attitudes, skills, structures, and processes that enable a primary care practice to improve … organization”
EvidenceNOW is providing customized support to primary care practices to help them improve
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/es/tools/index.html
December 01, 2015 - It provides step-by-step guidance to help survey users develop an action plan to improve patient safety … long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices apply the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making to improve … of Care: Ambulatory Care, Long-term Care, Hospital
Calibrate Dx: A Resource To Improve … Diagnostic Decisions
Self-evaluation tool for clinicians to improve their diagnostic decision making
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/tools/index.html
December 01, 2015 - It provides step-by-step guidance to help survey users develop an action plan to improve patient safety … long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices apply the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making to improve … of Care: Ambulatory Care, Long-term Care, Hospital
Calibrate Dx: A Resource To Improve … Diagnostic Decisions
Self-evaluation tool for clinicians to improve their diagnostic decision making
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/b4_combo_documentationcoding.pdf
March 15, 2016 - Documentation and Coding for Patient Safety Indicators
Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve … Efforts to improve documentation and coding
accuracy can reduce variability in data, increase confidence … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
2 Tool B … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
3 Tool B … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
5 Tool B
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/mestateataglance.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 … 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.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/ilstateataglance.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 … 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.innovations.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/improving-fac-notes.html
May 01, 2017 - Use structured briefings to improve communication and teamwork. … Demonstrate how the checklist can improve teamwork and communication. … Through these measures, briefings can help improve patient safety. … The value of the debriefing to improve patient care is clear, but not commonly practiced. … All of these things improve teamwork.
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight11.pdf
September 08, 2015 - 2010, the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded 10 grants,
funding 18 States, to improve … States indicated that implementing a range of State- and practice-level initiatives
is often needed to improve … 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 … • Manuscript: Nine States’ Use of Collaboratives to Improve Children’s Health
Care Quality in Medicaid
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-pennsylvania-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - internal
quality reports and indicate that quality reports were
effective (Figure 1).3
• Worked to improve … To
improve on well-child visits, another health system worked
with clerical staff to develop new procedures … Key demonstration takeaways
• Health systems implemented electronic screeners to
improve screening … started tracking additional Child Core Set measures and
implemented quality improvement efforts to improve … • Continue efforts to improve performance on Child Core Set
measures, though health systems reported
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d4i_pdi11-dehiscence-bestpractices.pdf
May 17, 2016 - Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve … o Median or vertical incisions
Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve … Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety … tools_resources/SSSL_Checklist_finalJun08.pdf
Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/pqmp/about/pediatric-quality-measurement-importance.html
June 01, 2018 - and other public and private programs, providers, plans, patients, and their families to measure and improve … current phase will highlight the challenges and barriers in implementing quality measures and help to improve … role in providing the evidence and potential solutions that will help to drive high-quality care and improve
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/primary-care-practices-delivering.html
October 01, 2023 - research, tools, and methods for implementation, and the next generation of primary care researchers to improve … you to learn more by visiting the NCEPCR website, which provides access to research initiatives to improve … AHRQ offers additional actionable tools and models to support and improve primary care.
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/challenges/past/step-up-app/index.html
January 01, 2022 - Competitions
Bringing Predictive Analytics to Healthcare Challenge
Cross-Sectional Innovation to Improve … The discrete clinical data and PRO data enable providers to improve clinical decision making while reducing … award-winning Phoenix Server™, Asymmetrik's patient-engagement solution can help healthcare providers improve … Qidza Inc: Qidza's ProNoggin™ mobile app is designed to improve the collection of PRO data by addressing … Decision Making process between patients and providers in a user-friendly application that strives to improve
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-maine-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - The State also implemented
strategies to improve measure performance. … Spotlight on Maine
January 2018
Maine’s Goals: Improve the quality of care for children by—
• Increasing … quality
measures to be tracked and topics to be addressed
in learning collaboratives helped Maine improve … reporting functions within the State’s
immunization registry helped practices build capacity
and improve … Nine states’ use of collaboratives to
improve children’s health care quality in Medicaid and CHIP.
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/EvidenceNOW-BSC-AL-profile.pdf
September 01, 2021 - Building State Capacity is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to improve … engaging with primary care practices to implement patient-centered
outcomes research (PCOR) findings to improve … Improvement Project (HHIP) is designed to build primary
care quality improvement (QI) capacity and improve
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/chipra-88-measure-1-section-6-attachment-2.pdf
January 17, 2017 - Association)
- Recommendation to revise several points in numerator and denominator to revise
language, improve … Memorial Hospital, Chicago)
- Recommendation to revise several points in numerator to revise language, improve … Advanced Pediatrics)
- Recommendation to revise several points in numerator to revise language, improve
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/chipra-89-adhd-behavior-section-6-attach-2.pdf
February 02, 2017 - Association)
- Recommendation to revise several points in numerator and denominator to revise
language, improve … Memorial Hospital, Chicago)
- Recommendation to revise several points in numerator to revise language, improve … Advanced Pediatrics)
- Recommendation to revise several points in numerator to revise language, improve
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy4/Strat4_Tool_3_Physician_HO_508.docx
January 01, 2010 - between inpatient and outpatient providers3
Involving the patient and family in discharge planning can improve … More and more, hospitals are focusing on transitions in care as a way to improve hospital quality and … To improve quality and reduce preventable readmissions, [insert hospital name] will use the Agency for
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy4/Strat4_Tool_3_Physician_HO_508.pdf
January 01, 2010 - inpatient and outpatient
providers3
Involving the patient and family in discharge planning can
improve … patient satisfaction.6,7
More and more, hospitals are focusing on transitions in
care as a way to improve … To improve quality and reduce preventable readmissions,
[insert hospital name] will use the Agency for