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381. Implementation and Impact of Medicare’s Voluntary Ambulatory Care Quality Reporting Program (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2015 - ■ Support improvement efforts targeted at vulnerable subpopulations: Not surprisingly, voluntary … reporting initiatives can have greater impact on subgroups of providers and/or patients where improvement … special efforts to provide actionable feedback reports and other easy-to-use tools that support improvement … they reported that the complexity of the performance reports limited their usefulness as a quality improvement

382. Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals Training Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2017 - offers strategies and resources to assist hospital team leaders, practice facilitators, and quality improvement … Hospitals Training Program and the associated Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit to guide systematic quality improvement … Roadmap for how to roll out the Training Program modules and companion Webinars in a systematic quality improvement … Examples of how hospitals have addressed common challenges encountered when doing quality improvement

383. CAHPS Hospital Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - Examples and information on improvement strategies are available in the following resources. … (The Commonwealth Fund) Patient-Centered Care Improvement Guide  (Planetree and Picker Institute)

384. Module 1: Using the Comprehensive Long-Term Care Safety Modules: Applying Safety Principles: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - These tools supplement other quality and performance improvement initiatives, all of which aim to change … Say: Why is infection prevention and quality improvement important? … Why are we doing another quality improvement project? Slide 5: Is Your Facility Safe? … Slide 16: Implementing Change Successfully Say: If teams experience fatigue with improvement projects … Ask: Do you know which quality improvement initiatives are being implemented in your facility?

385. About TeamSTEPPS 2.0 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2019 - Details of a Site Assessment A site assessment entails identifying opportunities for improvement; determining … Define the problem, challenge, or opportunity for improvement. … Training, and Implementation of TeamSTEPPS The tools and strategies needed to address opportunities for improvement … It can also lead to overload or uncertainty about which tools best fit improvement opportunities. … approach because it allows for direct linking of tools and strategies with specific opportunities for improvement

386. Development of the Learning Health System Researcher Core Competencies (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2016 - Research Methods; (4) Informatics; (5) Ethics of Research and Implementation in Health Systems; (6) Improvement … System A system in which science, informatics, incentives, and culture are aligned for continuous improvement … • Stakeholders are patients, caregivers, clinicians, system leaders, improvement specialists, and … Competencies 6.1: Demonstrate the ability to employ specific quality improvement methods to reduce avoidable … AHRQ Senior Advisor, Children’s Health and Quality Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and

387. Community Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety Culture | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - resources  to assist survey users, including an Action Planning Tool, Data Entry and Analysis Tool, Improvement … AHRQ’s Impact Case Studies highlight healthcare improvement through use of our toolkits.

388. CAHPS Patient Narrative Item Sets (webcast) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2021 - Director, CAHPS and Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Programs Center for Quality Improvement … What Words Convey: The Potential for Patient Narratives to Inform Quality Improvement .

389. Culture-Check-Uptool (doc file)
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     August 07, 2012 - Focusing the culture conversation on group-level data removes the focus from individuals and fosters improvement … This tool can be used to target a goal for improvement in unit safety shortly after the initial culture … patient safety culture assessment results and select an item for which responses indicate a need for improvement … your item-level results and consider discussing any item for which scores indicate an opportunity for improvement

390. Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs—Overview (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - PF services are provided by trained individuals or teams, using a range of quality improvement (QI) … and practice improvement approaches. … ▲ Vermont Blueprint’s Expansion and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP), which provides PF services … Network Safety Net Medical Home Initiative Vermont Blueprint’s EquIP Context Statewide health care improvement

391. Resource List - AHRQ Hospital Survey (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2023 - Organizational Learning—Continuous Improvement 1. … https://cahps.ahrq.gov/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/improvement-guide.html The extensive and … /improvement-guide/improvement-guide.html https://www.jointcommission.org/covid-19/ SOPS Hospital Survey … Organizational Learning—Continuous Improvement 1. … Improvement Capability Self-Assessment Tool 3.

392. Consider Culture: Tool 10 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - topics in this section Health Literacy About Health Literacy Health Literacy Improvement … Introduction Quick Start Guide Form a Team: Tool 1 Assess Organizational Health Literacy and Create an Improvement … Refer to Tool 2: Assess Organizational Health Literacy and Create an Improvement Plan to learn how … to use data in the improvement process.

393. Module 4: An Introduction to Practice Organization (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - What implications do these have for quality improvement work? Activity. … Capacity for continuous quality improvement 4. … This can include developing reports that link data to improvement efforts. …  Quality improvement. … Solicit their input on improvement goals and methods and look for ways to include them in the improvement

394. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Southwest 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 … initiative also includes an independent national evaluation designed to determine if and how quality improvement … Build primary care practice capacity for quality improvement, change management, and implementation … for quality measures • Active practice facilitation consisting of regular meetings with a practice improvement … , 2016] Southwest Cooperative • Influences of the Electronic Health Record System on Practice Improvement

395. Section 2: Explanation of Mutual Support Key Concepts and Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2023 - Mutual Support Key Concepts and Tools  Implementation of TeamSTEPPS 3.0 Diagnosis Improvement … More information about the value of reflective practice is in the TeamSTEPPS for Diagnosis Improvement … training materials at https://www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/diagnosis-improvement/index.html.

396. Module 1: Instructor’s Guide to Using the PCPF Curriculum (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - The AHRQ 2010 Consensus Meeting on Practice Facilitation for Primary Care Improvement (Knox 2010) developed … , diffusion of innovations theory, and organizational change) and applied skills (such as quality improvement … these core competencies to focus on interpersonal skills, generating and using data, and quality improvement … practice assessment 19 Conducting a Kickoff Meeting Meeting management 20 Creating Quality Improvement … Report on the AHRQ 2010 Consensus Meeting on Practice Facilitation for Primary Care Improvement.

397. AHRQ Views Blog: Long COVID Is a Case Study of Our Fractured Healthcare System | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - 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: Director, Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement . … Health Scientist Administrator , Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, Division of Digital Healthcare

398. 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

399. The Spread Problem | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2020 - SHARE: More topics in this section Practice Improvement … Cambridge, Massachusetts: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2006. … Planning for Scale: A Guide for Designing Large-Scale Improvement Initiatives . … Cambridge, Massachusetts: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2008.

400. CAHPS In-Center Hemodialysis Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - organizations worked with seven dialysis facilities and their Networks to identify opportunities for improvement … With the assistance of the Networks and grantees, the facilities implemented appropriate quality improvement