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281. 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

282. Emotional Wellness Resources for Nursing Home Staff | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2022 - Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network Materials by Topic Leadership, Management, and Quality Improvement … Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccination Leadership, Management, and Quality Improvement

283. 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.

284. Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - The coaching self-assessment form and feedback form are tools for self-improvement. … learning about what they need to be successful as a coach and helping create an action plan for self-improvement

285. 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

286. 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.

287. 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.

288. AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2023 - other organizations for value-based purchasing programs, public reporting, accreditation, quality improvement … Web: ahrq.gov/teamstepps/diagnosis- improvement/index.html Hospitals completing the tasks. … /index.html http://ahrq.gov/teamstepps/diagnosis-improvement/index.html http://ahrq.gov/cretoolkit https … outlines the latest evidence on how to lead a quality improvement effort to prevent hospital-acquired … Initiative for Nursing Facilities is an interdisciplinary quality improvement initiative to assist

289. 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

290. 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.

291. Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Your Practice – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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     September 01, 2022 - MIPS assigns both penalties and rewards to clinicians and practices for quality improvement activities … use of electronic health records, control of the cost of care, and participation in practice-based improvement … Some quality improvement opportunities within MIPs concern antibiotic prescribing, including for sinusitis … Practice-level data can be used to determine areas that may need improvement in the practice. … When areas for further improvement are identified, underscore how the practice will need to continue

292. AHRQ’s Healthcare Extension Service Initiative | 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

293. Research Communities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - Practice Facilitation Practice facilitation is an approach to supporting improvement in primary care … practices that focuses on building organizational capacity for continuous quality improvement.

294. 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

295. Preventing Falls in Hospitals
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     June 16, 2017 - important to ensure that you have things in place from the beginning to achieve and sustain the best improvement … Cost avoidance estimation Patient throughput Turnover reduction Leaders: Alignment of improvement efforts … Share data with: Improvement Team. Frontline staff. … Resource Needed: Yes/No Notes on what is needed Staff education programs     Quality improvement experts … The ongoing quality improvement journey: next stop, high reliability.

296. Understanding the Transformation Experiences of Small Practices With NCQA Medical Home Recognition (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2015 - Almost 70 percent of surveyed practices involved front-line staff in improvement efforts, but only 15 … percent included patients on quality improvement committees or teams. … Practices with Level 3 recognition were more likely to have EHRs and to use measurement-based quality improvement

297. Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 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.

298. Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2023 - Who Should Use This Toolkit This toolkit should be used by perioperative staff, surgical quality improvement … Toolkit Development These evidence-based resources were developed throughout a 5-year national quality improvement

299. CAHPS Hospice Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - family members to help them select a hospice program, Support hospices with their internal quality improvement … (TEP), including experts on hospice care quality, survey research, and performance measurement and improvement … adoption of a standardized hospice care survey and promotion of its use for public reporting and quality improvement

300. CAHPS: Assessing Healthcare Quality From the Patient's Perspective (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2022 - Research and Quality (AHRQ) has been dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge, measurement, and improvement … have proven expertise in survey design and evaluation, public reporting, and quality assessment and improvement … purpose of the Databases is to facilitate comparisons of CAHPS survey results that inform quality improvement … to help survey users improve patients’ experiences with care, including The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement