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341. Notice of Intent: AHRQ to Establish Healthcare Extension Service | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - The initiative—AHRQ’s Healthcare Extension Service, State-based Solutions to Healthcare Improvement—aims … Each Cooperative will convene a variety of public and private partners that are drivers of healthcare improvement

342. Data Spotlights | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Person-centered care among Asian and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander home health patients needs improvement … Improvement in hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes among American Indians and Alaska Natives

343. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality (pdf file)
     patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/public-notes-meeting-summary-031121.pdf
     July 22, 2021 - representatives on current work and future plans; (2) provide agency updates related to diagnosis improvement … has been added to address team function that includes diagnostic safety, as part of HRSA quality improvement

344. Advancing Heart Health and Equity during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2021 - Through improved use of evidence-based interventions, primary care practices increased their quality improvement … While the improvement in blood pressure control appears small, it was accomplished during a period when … Arlene Bierman is Director of AHRQ’s Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement. 

345. AHRQ’s Research and Tools Help Transform Delivery of Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2022 - completed just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tested whether practice facilitation and other quality improvement … 100 tools for primary care practices, practice facilitators, and others to build capacity for quality improvement … Miller is Acting Director of AHRQ’s Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement .

346. EvidenceNOW: North Carolina Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - regional cooperatives composed of public and private health partnerships that provide a variety of quality improvement … initiative also includes an independent national evaluation designed to determine if and how quality improvement … Support Strategy All practices receive 12 months of intense practice support, including onsite quality improvement … 65 practices reported data at baseline and for at least 2 intervention quarters. 54 percent showed improvement

347. AHRQ Views: Commemorating 35 Years as an Independent Science Agency | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - for all Americans by investing in health systems research, creating strategies to support practice improvement … and providing data and analytics to identify opportunities for improvement. … Current vacancies include: Health Scientist Administrator, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient … Safety/Division of Quality Measurement and Improvement .

348. Health Literacy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - Disseminating Evidence into Practice Health IT and Digital Health Health Literacy Quality Improvement … Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement : Training modules to help pharmacist

349. Assembleteam (doc file)
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     August 24, 2012 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (or CUSP) Toolkit addresses CUSP team composition for your quality improvement … Slide 18 SAY: The senior executive: · Helps the CUSP team prioritize improvement efforts, · Helps … Identify a quality improvement issue and begin to think about who should be on the team: · What roles … Key hospital departments, such as risk management, quality improvement, and infection prevention, that … Background Quality Improvement Team Information Form The Background Quality Improvement Team Information

350. Module 5: How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices (doc file)
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     January 01, 2016 - Slide 2 SAY: A basic principle of quality improvement is: If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve … Continued monitoring will help you understand where you are starting from, and whether your improvement … Therefore, your quality improvement efforts should focus on incidence rates. … Sharing information on performance is critical to your quality improvement effort. … If you are not doing well in one of these key areas, there is an opportunity for improvement.

351. AHRQ Key Contacts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2023 - 427-1200 Fax: (301) 427-1201 Email:  director@ahrq.hhs.gov   Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement … Director Phone: (301) 427-1406 Fax: (301) 427-1276 Email: joel.cohen@ahrq.hhs.gov Center for Quality Improvement

352. Findings From the AHRQ Transforming Primary Care Grant Initiative: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)
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     July 22, 2015 - For some practices, transformation into a PCMH built upon years of previous practice improvement or … Although a number of definitions exist, efforts to transform into a PCMH go beyond quality improvement … A variety of processes were used by practices to implement continuous quality improvement as a part … Practices also used plan-do-study-act (or plan-do- check-act) cycles for quality improvement efforts. … , including quality improvement efforts, the adoption of EHRs, or a focus on shared decisionmaking.

353. Improving Antipsychotic Appropriateness in Dementia Patients (pdf file)
     patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/clinicians-providers/iadapt/carnahan.pdf
     January 01, 2014 - Quality Improvement for Nursing Facilities 2012:3rd quarter newsletter. Smith M, Carnahan R. … Quality Improvement for Nursing Facilities 2012:4th quarter newsletter.

354. Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - Development These resources were developed during a 4-year project conducted through a national quality improvement … AHRQ’s Impact Case Studies highlight healthcare improvement through use of our toolkits.

355. Implementing the New CAHPS® Protocol for Obtaining Patient Comments About Their Care (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2018 - report content, display, access, and distribution – Thoughts about how to facilitate taking action for improvement … comparisons to peer groups where possible – Show trends over time – Provide links to “helpful tips” for improvement

356. Nursing Home Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2022 - (ASPR TRACIE) (4) Indiana University Center for Aging Research (1) Institute for Healthcare Improvement … Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) (1) Project ECHO (1) Institute for Healthcare Improvement … The following resources catalog is a searchable database of COVID-19 nursing home safety and quality improvement … , will help nursing homes get started with observational auditing, so you have useful data to guide improvement

357. Nursing Home Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2022 - (ASPR TRACIE) (4) Indiana University Center for Aging Research (1) Institute for Healthcare Improvement … Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) (1) Project ECHO (1) Institute for Healthcare Improvement … The following resources catalog is a searchable database of COVID-19 nursing home safety and quality improvement … , will help nursing homes get started with observational auditing, so you have useful data to guide improvement

358. Strategy 1: Working with Patients & Families as Advisors (Implementation Handbook) (pdf file)
     patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy1/Strat1_Implement_Hndbook_508_v2.pdf
     January 28, 2011 - • Ideas for improvement. … improvement projects. … teams is necessary to achieve our current improvement aim. … Quality improvement methodology To better understand the quality improvement process, it is helpful … ’s Hospital Medical Center, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2007.

359. Patient Safety News and Events | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Safety Awareness Week 2019 AHRQ Summit and Roundtable on Research Priorities for Patient Safety Improvement … AHRQ 2020 Summit and Roundtable on Research Priorities for Patient Safety Improvement AHRQ convened

360. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Implementation Handbook) (doc file)
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     April 30, 2013 - improvement effort, planning and identifying areas of improvement are important parts of the process … Areas for improvement related to communication and possible challenges to implementing the Communicating … When identifying areas for improvement, the team may want to informally introduce the concepts behind … methods, available at: http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics /Improvement/Improvement Methods/HowToImprove/ … Any quality improvement initiative requires setting aims.