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81. The TeamSTEPPS for Improving Diagnosis Team Assessment Tool: Scale Development and Psychometric Evaluation (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2024 - Content validity findings indicated that the TAT encompassed relevant diagnostic improvement teamwork … The TAT was designed as part of the TeamSTEPPS for Diag- nosis Improvement Course (a toolkit resource … in commu- nication, directing teamwork priorities, developing action plans, and monitoring improvement … TeamSTEPPS Diagnosis Improvement Course. May 2023. … Accessed Sep 8, 2023. https://www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/ diagnosis-improvement/index.html . 10

82. Using CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - 5: Determining Where to Focus Efforts to Improve Patient Experience of the CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement … and Specialty Care After using survey results to identify aspects of patient experience in need of improvement … CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide The  CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide  (PDF, 156 KB … Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement Using CAHPS® Surveys. … How Two Provider Groups Are Using the CAHPS ®  Clinician & Group Survey for Quality Improvement  (PDF

83. Lessons Learned about Practice Facilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2022 - .2020.305692   Lesson: Facilitators require multidisciplinary skills to support sustainable practice improvement … external policy and practice contextual factors that may hinder the facilitation process and practice improvement … Dedicated workforce required to support large-scale practice improvement  J Am Bd Fam Med  2020; 33 ( … Practice facilitator strategies for addressing electronic health record data challenges for quality improvement … Practice facilitators' and leaders' perspectives on a facilitated quality improvement program. 

84. AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Español FAQs Home Health Literacy Health Literacy Improvement … Each tool describes concrete actions in one of these 5 areas: Start on the Path to Improvement … We recommend that you start on the Path to Improvement with Tools 1 through 3. … Tool 2: Assess Organizational Health Literacy and Create a Health Literacy Improvement Plan will guide … you in assessing your practice and identifying focus areas for your improvement efforts.

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

86. Using CAHPS Health Plan Survey Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide is a comprehensive … Research Meeting: Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement Using … 2020 AHRQ Research Meeting on "Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement … Summary of the presentations at the October 2020 research meeting on patient experience improvement methods … This case study focuses on the successful quality improvement methods employed by a health plan to improve

87. Ps-Privacy-Factsheet (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2021 - Privacy, Security, Confidentiality, and Privilege Considerations for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement … with the appropriate point of contact in your organization to: Confirm that all participants in the improvement … in planning any patient safety or quality improvement activity is psychological safety. … Confidentiality and privilege protections for patient safety and quality improvement work are often … ■ Additional Federal confidentiality and privilege laws apply to certain improvement activities

88. Webinar Transcript - National Quality Strategy: 2013 Annual Progress Report Update | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2016 - while the remaining half had no quality improvement to report at that time. … That resulted in the Quality Improvement Map. … projects or want to enhance some of their current quality improvement work. … who is the director of quality improvement within the health system. … for a quality improvement movement, but also in designing specific quality improvement projects.

89. Sustainability Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2020 - Establish improvement culture and engaged staff. Create cultural legacy. … Spread   Implementing a successful improvement across multiple facilities. … Has real, measurable improvement been demonstrated? Who cares about the improvement? … – Determining whether a change resulted in improvement. … – Refining of the improvement plan based on data.

90. AHRQ Quality Indicator Tools for Data Analytics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2020 - Hospitals can select the most appropriate tools for their current quality improvement priorities and … The tools are organized by the six quality improvement process steps: Assessing Readiness To Change … Identifying Priorities for Quality Improvement. … It contains the same six steps as the QI Toolkit, including materials that improvement teams can use … AHRQ QI Publications AHRQ QI Quality Improvement Case Studies .

91. Summary of Patient Safety Research Opportunities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - Does combining employee safety and patient safety increase the pace and extent of improvement in safety … How could research and improvement projects be most effectively carried out to address the following … Optimizing Research Methods for Patient Safety Improvement What are the most effective models for scaling … What can be done immediately to increase the rate of improvement and harm reduction on a larger scale … How do organizations assess improvement opportunities such as the implementation of communication and

92. AHRQ National Advisory Council to Meet Virtually on July 14 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2021 - and Director, Office of Minority Health; Jeffrey Brady, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Quality Improvement … Bierman, M.D., M.S., Director, Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement; and Joel W. … Kanel, M.D., M.H.C.M., AHRQ Telehealth Co-Lead and Director, Division of Practice Improvement Discussion … about patient safety opportunities by Jeffrey Brady, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Quality Improvement … and Patient Safety and Erin Grace, M.H.A., Deputy Director, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient

93. Primary Care Extension in Oklahoma: An Evidence-Based Approach to Dissemination and Implementation of Innovations (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2015 - In Oklahoma, primary care extension is grounded in a history of primary care practice improvement through … through the development of County Health Improvement Organizations (CHIOs). … Startup grants offered incentives for quality improvement work in the practices. … County-based efforts catalyzed group quality improvement among local physicians and brought diverse … Arkansas has a strong quality improvement environment in terms of reimbursement incentives, support

94. About AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Work | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - The AHRQ Patient Safety Research program is conducted through the Center for Quality Improvement and … supporting user-driven research on patient safety and health care quality measurement, reporting, and improvement … Developing and disseminating reports and information on health care quality measurement, reporting, and improvement … Assessing its own practices to ensure continuous learning and improvement for the Center and its members … Steering Committee for Patient Safety with Tejal Gandhi, M.D., Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

95. Webinar Transcript - National Quality Strategy Webinar: Using Measurement for Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2016 - The National Quality Strategy: Using Measurement for Quality Improvement, Nancy Wilson, B.S.N., M.D., … And we really tried to design the strategy to not just be about what CMS can do to drive improvement … Like we like to think about it at CMS as, "Lowering costs through quality improvement." … And so, there's really no more room for improvement because this goal of measurement is to drive improvement … Really, to help drive improvement.

96. Uses of Quality Measurement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2020 - Quality Improvement . … These resources are also useful for quality improvement. … Quality Improvement Quality measurement provides one of the tools needed for effective quality improvement … and tools for quality improvement strategies . … A report card on quality improvement for children's health care .

97. Transforming Primary Care Practice in North Carolina (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2015 - Program (previously known as the Improving Performance in Practice Program) is a statewide quality improvement … (QI) initiative that provided primary care practices with onsite improvement coaches, tools, and resources … QI Consultants helped set goals for practice improvement, trained staff on QI methodology, and assisted … Model for Improvement. … Of these, 18 practices also had a high level of improvement in clinical measures, and 10 had low improvement

98. Best Practices for Administering SOPS® Surveys Users (Webcast): Ginsberg Presentation (pdf file)
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    February 08, 2024 - Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … 6 AHRQ Patient Safety Priorities • Focus on areas of greatest impact • Extend patient safety improvement … • Initiated and funded by AHRQ since 2001 to advance the understanding, measurement, and improvement … Actionable for improvement purposes 5. … safety culture Raise staff awareness about patient safety Identify strengths and areas for improvement

99. AHRQ’s Core Competencies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2019 - Practice Improvement AHRQ creates tools and strategies to help health systems and frontline clinicians … decision makers understand how the US healthcare system is working and where there are opportunities for improvement

100. Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2017 - resources that ambulatory surgery centers can use for surgical site infection prevention and safety culture improvement … Safe Surgery Checklist Tools WHO Surgical Safety Checklist Quality Improvement Study Framework … These documents were created to assist the completion of a quality improvement study for the purposes