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201. NAC Member Biography: Neil I. Goldfarb | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2022 - Goldfarb spent more than 30 years in healthcare research, quality improvement, and management positions … the school’s research agenda, while concurrently serving as director of ambulatory care performance improvement … His previous positions include executive director of a quality improvement consulting firm and vice president

202. AHRQ Expands Its Repertoire to Eliminate Diagnostic Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2022 - It is an evidence-based tool that helps identify diagnostic safety events and gain insights for improvement … systematically reviewing and analyzing case data and translating findings into valuable insights for improvement … Improve Diagnostic Safety ; Diagnostic Safety Issue Briefs that examine current topics and support improvement … efforts; a TeamSTEPPS® training program designed specifically for diagnostic improvement; and a recent

203. Consider Culture: Tool 10 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - Español FAQs Home Health Literacy Health Literacy Improvement … 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.  

204. Celebrating 25 Years of the CAHPS Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2024 - brought together hundreds of researchers and users of the surveys and data to share new developments, improvement … for comparative results for the Clinician & Group Survey. 2011 The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement … The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide offers advice and strategies to help health plans, medical … CAHPS tools are a core part of our quality strategy and help guide our improvement work. … scores have been used by integrated delivery systems to identify, monitor, and track the impact of improvement

205. New Mexico IMPaCT: Catalyzing Community Health Transformation in Kansas (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2015 - with three other States to share the models they developed and to support those States in launching improvement … • New Mexico’s emphasis on a community-based approach to health improvement was well suited to Kansas … s rural communities and informed Kansas’s strategic vision about primary care and community health improvement … His vision included three areas of focus: • Helping rural primary care practices develop quality improvement … Develop rural practice improvement skills and tools. 2.

206. Development and Usability Testing of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Common Formats to Capture Diagnostic Safety Events (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - field will ensure that AHRQ’s CFER- DS is useful to a broad range of users for learning and safety improvement … Key Words: diagnostic safety, usability testing, patient safety, healthcare quality improvement, measurement … More than a decade ago, as authorized by the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient … Diagnostic excellence requires a shift in per- spective, from considering diagnostic safety improvement … Investing in skilled specialists to grow hospital infrastructure for quality improvement.

207. AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)
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     July 22, 2015 - The collaborative formed 13 regional teams and each selected improvement topics based on region and … a Quality Improvement Organization. … Many States used the existing structure of primary care or community health improvement efforts. … Quality Improvement in Primary Care: External Supports for Practices. … Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators.

208. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety: July Meeting Summary (pdf file)
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     November 03, 2023 - Release of Tests Results and discuss next steps, (2) provide agency updates related to diagnosis improvement … Agency Update AHRQ/Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety • Diagnostic Safety … o Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC) regulations: CLIAC has three workgroups … See Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC).

209. AHRQ’s Toolkit Helped Vanderbilt University Hospital Substantially Reduce Patient Falls | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2016 - "AHRQ's Preventing Falls in Hospitals toolkit was an invaluable resource for our latest improvement work … unit leaders to embrace the call to action, get staff engaged, create action plans, and prioritize the improvement … To implement the program hospital-wide, the quality improvement team also used the AHRQ toolkit to create … The mandatory all-day training session taught unit leaders about overall quality improvement principles

210. Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2018 - PBRNs engage clinicians in quality improvement activities and an evidence-based culture in primary care … support staff in topical areas such as Comparative Effectiveness Research, PBRN operations, Quality Improvement

211. Ingestion of Illicit Substances Among Young Children Increased Significantly During COVID-19 Pandemic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2023 - Articles featured this week include: Integrating implementation science in a quality and patient safety improvement … Quality improvement initiative to decrease central line-associated bloodstream infections during the … 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. … Physician , Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement. Application deadline: May 5.

212. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: A Profile | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2022 - CUSP combines improvement in safety culture, teamwork, and communication together with a checklist of … tools with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which has tasked the Nation's Quality Improvement … Top of Page AHRQ Leadership Video Series In " Promoting Research and Practice Improvement … Bierman, M.D., Director of AHRQ's Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, discusses how the center's … Making Health Care Safer ,” Jeff Brady, M.D., M.P.H., former Director of AHRQ's Center for Quality Improvement

213. AHRQ Views Blog: At the American Society of Health Economists Conference, AHRQ Highlights Its Deep Dive Into COVID-19 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2023 - The Ohio Maternal Safety Quality Improvement Project: initial results of a statewide perinatal hypertension … quality improvement initiative implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic . … They implemented a quality improvement intervention in 14 pediatric intensive care units and found that … 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.

214. Winners Selected in Challenge Competition To Create TeamSTEPPS Training Videos | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Division and senior science advisor in the Center for Quality Improvement … planning, development and execution of new and innovative funding opportunities; develop comprehensive improvement … Development of the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC): implementing 21 components … to catalyze statewide improvement in surgical care. … Establishing a Cystic Fibrosis Learning Network: interventions to promote collaboration and data-driven improvement

215. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)
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     April 21, 2014 - Provide a means for continuous quality improvement h. … Create buy-in and engage physicians in quality improvement i.

216. Pennsylvania IMPaCT: Catalyzing Primary Care Transformation in New York (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2018 - with three other States to share the models they developed and to support those States in launching improvement … Working with multiple health care ecosystems: how IMPaCT provided a model to sustain improvement: … insights from Pennsylvania with existing statewide efforts, New York created a sophisticated primary care improvement … well as promoting linkages between primary care, community resources, and policies for health improvement … York’s vision: Working with multiple health care ecosystems: how IMPaCT provided a model to sustain improvement

217. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Implementation Handbook) (pdf file)
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     April 30, 2013 - As with any new activity or quality improvement effort, planning and identifying areas of improvement … Any quality improvement initiative requires setting aims. … methods, available at: http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics /Improvement/Improvement Methods/HowToImprove … http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/Improvement/ImprovementMethods/HowToImprove/tMethods/HowToImprove/ http … /IHI/Topics/Improvement/ImprovementMethods/HowToImprove/tMethods/HowToImprove/ http://www.ihi.org/IHI

218. About Learning Health Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2019 - Learning Health Systems— Have leaders who are committed to a culture of continuous learning and improvement … Continually assess outcomes refine processes and training to create a feedback cycle for learning and improvement … data in the clinical setting, and both a culture and workforce committed to continuous learning and improvement

219. 5. How do you measure fall rates and fall prevention practices? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2013 - When you first implement a quality improvement program and begin tracking performance, increased fall … Improving data quality control in quality improvement projects. … Dissemination of information on performance is critical to your quality improvement effort. … For example, for senior managers, report the data in a leadership meeting or performance improvement … Therefore, we encourage you to focus more on improvement over time within your units and your hospital

220. About Health Literacy | 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 … Most recently, Healthy People 2030 , which establishes national objectives for health improvement, has … AHRQ’s health literacy work spans from developing improvement tools , to designing professional training