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April 01, 2023 - Return to Contents
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March 01, 2020 - Catalyst for Payment Reform and Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute.
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March 01, 2020 - Strategy 6M: Group Visits
Contents
6.M.1. The Problem
6.M.2. The Intervention
6.M.3. Benefits of This Intervention
6.M.4. Implementation of This Intervention
6.M.5. The Impact of This Intervention
References
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6.M.1. The…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/northwest.html
March 01, 2021 - initiative also includes an independent national evaluation designed to determine if and how quality improvement … Provide comprehensive practice support to build quality improvement (QI) capacity within these practices … Practice facilitators administer the Quality Improvement Change Assessment (QICA), a tool developed by … the Cooperative to determine a practice’s need for practice improvement assistance. … Publications:
Engaging Primary Care Practices in Studies of Improvement: Did you budget enough for
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/evaluation/capacity-infographic.pdf
April 01, 2018 - AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Results: Increased Capacity for Quality Improvement in Small Primary Care Practices … AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Results: Increased Capacity
for Quality Improvement in Small Primary Care Practices … For example, practices with capacity for quality improvement are eager to learn from mistakes, create … Quality Improvement
Services
On-site practice
facilitation and
coaching
Health
IT support
Shared … help them improve the delivery of the ABCS
of heart health and increase their capacity for quality improvement
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/guide2.html
February 01, 2016 - The Framework for Improvement
Chapter 2. Analyze Care Delivery
Chapter 3. … The focus here is on identifying barriers to improvement and failures in the current process in order … Every improvement effort faces obstacles—both barriers and failure modes. … Identify Common Barriers to Improvement
Some barriers are generic. … Every medical center faces competing priorities and, increasingly, improvement fatigue.
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www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/guide2.html
February 01, 2016 - The Framework for Improvement
Chapter 2. Analyze Care Delivery
Chapter 3. … The focus here is on identifying barriers to improvement and failures in the current process in order … Every improvement effort faces obstacles—both barriers and failure modes. … Identify Common Barriers to Improvement
Some barriers are generic. … Every medical center faces competing priorities and, increasingly, improvement fatigue.
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/antipsychotic/key-driver.html
July 01, 2021 - and Adolescents Toolkit
Introduction
Overview
About the Measure
Key Driver Diagrams
Quality Improvement … key driver diagrams, additional information for each change idea and actionable pathways that support improvement … In addition, summaries of measure-specific improvement strategies implemented by health plans, associated … and implementation of change ideas for Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles (Institute for Healthcare Improvement … Given the NCINQ learning collaborative focused primarily on performance improvement at the health plan
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/implement/pdsa-worksheet.html
March 01, 2017 - document, and test small changes, through the use of the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle, that lead to improvement … Using PDSA To Improve Performance
Upon identifying opportunities for improvement, develop and execute … tools you may implement to systematically address opportunities for improvement your team has identified … Example:
Improvement in staff knowledge related to:
Indwelling urinary catheter (IUC)
☐ Clinical … Monitor progress on each opportunity for improvement regularly.
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/state-reports/index.html
March 01, 2019 - Family Engagement Guide: The Role of Family Health Partners in Quality Improvement Within a Pediatric … Quality Improvement Collaborative for Care Management Entities
This Web site hosts various resources … Return to Contents
Other Strategies for Quality Improvement
Massachusetts Child Health Quality … The National Improvement Partnership Network: State-Based Partnerships That Improve Primary Care Quality … This article in an Academic Pediatrics supplement describes the work of the National Improvement
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/5-determining-focus/cahps-ambulatory-care-guide-section-5.pdf
May 01, 2017 - May 2017 (updated)
https://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/improvement-guide.html … The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide
5. … The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide
5. … help develop improvement plans. … improvement team meetings.
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March 01, 2016 - Part Two: Design of Physician Feedback Reporting Systems
Part Three: Three Strategies for Continuous Improvement … Performance improvement messaging for physicians: lessons from market research*
Confidential … feedback reporting is widely considered to be a precursor to and a foundation for performance improvement … Atlas, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Primary Care Research & Quality Improvement Network, and Charlotte Ward … , M.P.H., System Innovation Analyst, Primary Care Operations Improvement Program.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/on-boarding/data-into-action-fac-notes.html
December 01, 2017 - Slide 2: Using Safety Culture Survey Results for Improvement
Say:
Specifically, consider how your … Debriefing is important because it turns data into information and helps accelerate improvement. … Studies show that debriefing survey results matters for improvement. … improvement plans. … It is a critical part of accelerating your team’s improvement efforts.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/environmental-scan-programs/envscan-program-apa.html
April 01, 2018 - Education Training
Eliminate Medical Error
Health Care Error Training
Health Care Quality Improvement … Health Literacy Training
Healthcare Error Training
Healthcare Quality Improvement … Training
Patient Safety
Patient Safety and Medical Error
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement … Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education
Patient Safety Assessment
Patient … and Patient Safety
Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/lhs/lhs_case_studies_bsw.pdf
April 01, 2019 - Baylor Scott & White Health: Building a Foundation for Continuous Improvement
Baylor Scott & White … Health: Building a Foundation for
Continuous Improvement
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … All of the stories are cataloged, providing a robust library of quality and
safety improvement ideas … Valuing the Role of Staff in Continuous Improvement
Having a data infrastructure able to generate … insights and a culture that supports improvement
based on those data are critical to being a health
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January 10, 2022 - TeamSTEPPS® Diagnosis Improvement: Module 6 Mutual Support - Facilitator’s Notes
Slide 1
TeamSTEPPS … Performance feedback benefits the team in several ways:
• Fosters improvement in work performance
• … ‒ Directed toward improvement.
‒ Considerate. “Feedback is where
the learning occurs.” … That statement is too general to use as a basis for improvement. … • Directed: Goals should be set for improvement to help prevent the same problem
from recurring in
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/maternal-mortality-3.html
September 01, 2021 - Morbidity and Mortality During and Immediately After Childbirth: State of the Science
Rationale for Improvement … Contribution of Diagnostic Error to Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity
Rationale for Improvement … improved assessment, diagnosis, and response to maternal hemorrhage. 23 Participation in a quality improvement … simulation to improve quality, including the cultural shift needed to effectively use simulation as an improvement … recruitment and training of skilled facilitators/debriefers, and challenge of measuring its direct impact on improvement
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptflow/section6.html
July 01, 2018 - Francis Hospital in Indianapolis, IN, focused on front-end improvement strategies. … In addition, the external accountability created by UM helped to ensure that the proposed improvement … The new vice president was a proponent of patient flow improvement, and staff understood that improving … Lean process improvement methods may be especially useful in engaging staff, as was demonstrated at two … There were a couple of approaches that the patient flow improvement teams in UMLN II hospitals used to
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May 01, 2017 - The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide: Why Improve Patient Experience? … May 2017 (updated)
https://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/improvement-guide.html … Ways to Approach the Quality Improvement Process
5. … The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide
2. Why Improve Patient Experience? … The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide
2. Why Improve Patient Experience?