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161. Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2021 - prevention strategies, CAUTI prevention, antibiotic stewardship), resident and family engagement, quality improvement … , and sustainability to guide your facility through implementing an improvement project to reduce HAIs … Toolkit The toolkit is organized into three main sections that your facility can use to implement an improvement … Sections Each section contains customizable resources that your facility can use to implement an improvement … project, the AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI, which involved a national quality improvement

162. Specific Tools To Support Change (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - Glossary Glossary of Improvement Terms A glossary of common improvement terminology. http://www.ihi.org … area, or evaluate an improvement project. … • Generate ideas for process improvement and innovation. … a change is an improvement?) … Improvement Tracker Monitor the impact of an innovation.

163. EvidenceNOW Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - primary care practices implement the latest evidence into practice and improve their capacity for quality improvement … lack of resources to meet patient needs, and limited access to an infrastructure to support quality improvement … Learn how external quality improvement support helps primary care practices improve the way they work … At its core it will use the EvidenceNOW model of primary care practice improvement support. … also focus on increasing integration between primary care and specialty care practices and aligning improvement

164. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Oklahoma Cooperative (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2017 - cooperatives composed of public and private health partnerships that provide a variety of quality improvement … Construct an effective, sustainable Oklahoma Primary Healthcare Improvement Cooperative (OPHIC) that … These conversations will lead to a quality improvement plan. … • Participation in a collaboration website and listserv to support ongoing quality improvement. … Oklahoma made these observations about working with practices on quality improvement: • Relationships

165. Building State Capacity Preliminary Findings  | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2023 - facilitators to establishing cooperatives and recruiting primary care practices to participate in care improvement … It also details the processes grantees used to provide quality improvement support services using practice … importance of early and ongoing engagement with payers to ensure alignment of incentives with quality improvement … affiliation of practices makes this particularly challenging Obtaining and providing data for quality improvement

166. Module 6: Sustainability: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - of workforce turnover is an example of a sustained improvement. … Improvement Leader's Guide to Sustainability and Spread. NHS Modernisation Agency. … Are other quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) initiatives aligned? … Most importantly, Baptist uses this data to refine its improvement plan. … Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2008. www.ihi.org .

167. Study Section Research Foci | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - Patient Utilities, Morbidity & Function Outcome Research Uses of HIT for Healthcare Quality & Cost Improvement … Purchasers, and Policymakers Innovation & Emergent Issues Research Healthcare Safety and Quality Improvement … Healthcare-associated Infection Qualitative & Quantitative Methods Evidence-based Medicine Quality Improvement … Research Dissemination/Translation Research Findings and Methods to Reduce Medical Errors; Quality Improvement

168. State Snapshots | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2021 - State-specific healthcare quality information, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement … Pinpoint statewide healthcare quality weaknesses to better target improvement initiatives. … States more accurately identify their strengths and weaknesses, thereby highlighting targeted areas for improvement … The State Snapshots can be of great value to you in your quality improvement efforts if you are interested … Do you know how this tool interfaces with other AHRQ products, such as the Asthma Care Quality Improvement

169. Module 2: Practice Facilitation as a Resource (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Practice Facilitation as a Resource for Practice Improvement Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare … for continuous improvement (Knox, 2010). … Finally, you will facilitate engagement of a practice in its improvement work. … Practices with little existing capacity for improvement will require more. … : this institute uses models for improvement as a framework to guide improvement work www.ihi.org

170. Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - Hospital Context for Quality Improvement Focus The nursing staff at Lurie Children’s Hospital had … How the Pediatric QI Toolkit Was Used Lurie Children’s Hospital used the improvement process laid out … Lead staff for improvement project Sangeeta Schroeder, M.D., hospitalist Lee Budin, M.D., medical … (Tool D.1), helped to get the team’s buy- in early in the quality improvement process. … Abstract Hospital Context for Quality Improvement Focus How the Pediatric QI Toolkit Was Used

171. Engaging Patients and Families in the Medical Home - Table 1 | PCMH Resource Center
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     June 01, 2010 - For examples of patient engagement in practice improvement, refer to Chapter 3 of the text and Appendix … What kinds of roles can patients/families play in quality improvement? … What tools/models promote successful involvement of patients and families in quality improvement? … What are the best models for using patient survey data to support quality improvement? … What are the costs and benefits of involving patients and families in quality improvement?

172. Module 6: An Overview of the Facilitation Process (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Identify at least three frequently encountered challenges to improvement. … They work to create an environment that supports continuous improvement and introduces values such … It includes several activities:  Inviting practices to participate in improvement work. …  Identifying other practice members who will be key participants in the improvement work. … the QI team to further define and refine the improvement goals identified during stage 1.

173. Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - PART B—HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT RESEARCH SEC. 911. HEALTH CARE OUTCOME IMPROVEMENT RESEARCH. … (b) HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT RESEARCH CENTERS AND PROVIDER-BASED RESEARCH NETWORKS- (1) IN GENERAL- In … INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT. … COORDINATION OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS. … ; and (D) strengthen the management of Federal health care quality improvement programs.

174. An Overview of the CANDOR Process
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     August 20, 2015 - Supports continuous learning and improvement. … Many models in the literature define the steps of change that lead to a sustainable improvement. … The Institute for Healthcare Improvement identified six common elements of sustainability. … Build systems for collecting process, outcome, and quality improvement activity data. … Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2008. Accessed March 22, 2014.

175. ACTION III Partnerships | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2019 - Qualidigm (CT Quality Improvement Organization). … Quality Improvement or Measurement Organizations (including Quality Improvement Organizations [QIOs]/ … Quality Improvement or Measurement Organizations (including Quality Improvement Organizations/Quality … Improvement or Learning Health Team Works. … Quality Improvement or Measurement Organizations (including Quality Improvement Organizations/Quality

176. Health Literacy Professional Education and Training | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - topics in this section Health Literacy About Health Literacy Health Literacy Improvement … Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement These  Advancing Pharmacy … Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement  modules help pharmacy faculty integrate health … literacy and health literacy quality improvement into courses, experiential education, and projects

177. Tools To Improve Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process: A Step-by-Step Guide for Rapid-Cycle Patient Safety and Quality Improvement … TeamSTEPPS for Diagnosis Improvement: TeamSTEPPS ® is an evidence-based program built on a framework … The TeamSTEPPS for Diagnosis Improvement Course applies the TeamSTEPPS framework to the specific problem … When implementing TeamSTEPPS for Diagnosis Improvement, teams will learn about the four skills and how

178. EvidenceNOW Tools for Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2023 - Practices and Practice Facilitators The EvidenceNOW Model for supporting primary care practice improvement … EvidenceNOW Model by sharing carefully selected tools and resources used in EvidenceNOW * and other quality improvement … facilitators and others who support practices, make changes to build their capacity to engage in quality improvement … leaders, clinicians, and other practice staff, as well as to practice facilitators and other quality improvement

179. AHRQ Tools Improve Care, Safety for St. Luke’s University Health Network Obstetric Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2019 - Initially, the OB unit—a high-risk area—was the focus for improvement efforts. … which have OB units, participated in bimonthly meetings early on to ensure a standardized approach to improvement … At the time of the initiative, she served as the coordinator for clinical quality improvement in the … “We kept leaders and staff in the loop with a variety of communications methods: our OB performance improvement … This practice helps the entire staff remain focused on improving safety and sustaining improvement in

180. Identifying Areas to Improve (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - She also leads the Quality Improvement team for RAND. … In other words how do you identify specific areas of improvement? … feasible goals, and then develop a strategy and actions for improvement. … What do you want to achieve in your improvement process? … the complete CAHPS Improvement Guide.