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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/dx-leadership-cx.pdf
June 03, 2021 - Potential gains for
diagnostic safety and
improvement, patient
safety improvement,
organizational … Improvement programs
(e.g., quality improvement
initiatives, safety tools,
teamwork tools, high-
reliability … Health Systems
Improvement Across the Globe: Success Stories From 60 Countries. 1st ed. … Leadership in quality improvement. … A Path Forward for Diagnostic Safety Improvement Leadership
References
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinar-032421.html
April 01, 2021 - Permanente and UCLA Health discussed their strategies for identifying aspects of patient experience needing improvement … Director, CAHPS and Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Programs
Center for Quality Improvement … Principal Consultant
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, CA
Effective Implementation of Patient Experience Improvement … Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Ambulatory Patient Experience Improvement … Patient Experience in Large Organizations (01:01:17)
Related Materials
CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/fac-notes.html
October 01, 2020 - The quality improvement process moves through several stages. … Once a change results in improvement, then move to implementing that improvement. … goal and create a culture of improvement. … Has real, measurable improvement been demonstrated?
Who cares about the improvement? … Determining whether a change resulted in improvement.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/127-roles-responsibilities-tool.docx
April 01, 2025 - · Identify support, interventions, and programs needed to facilitate improvement? … · Have I sought advice from my CUSP Facilitator to help me achieve my improvement goal? … · Have I sought advice from other CUSP team members to help me achieve my improvement goal? … · How can I ensure accountability to support the CUSP team to excel in improvement efforts? … · Have I sought advice from other CUSP team members to help me achieve my improvement goal?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/147-cusp-roles-responsibilities-tool.docx
June 02, 2025 - · Identify support, interventions, and programs needed to facilitate improvement? … · Have I sought advice from my CUSP Facilitator to help me achieve my improvement goal? … · Have I sought advice from other CUSP team members to help me achieve my improvement goal? … · How can I ensure accountability to support the CUSP team to excel in improvement efforts? … · Have I sought advice from other CUSP team members to help me achieve my improvement goal?
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/deliver-facilitation/modules/menus.html
February 01, 2022 - Quality improvement is a team sport. … for Improvement? … Step 2: Determine how to measure improvement. … Step 8: Use findings to generate improvement ideas and assess improvement. … Use the Model for Improvement to set improvement aims, define measures of success, and generate change
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/continuing-ed/moc-ha.html
October 01, 2020 - Diversely Trained Clinicians (MOC Part IV & PA-QI)
AHRQ presents the following suite of quality improvement … Note: the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) discontinued its Self-Directed Practice Improvement … and methods, and practice approach to quality improvement. … module, "Health Assessments: A Primary Care Practice Improvement Activity," for an hour-long recording … , 1 the module guides users through a health assessment performance improvement activity and enables
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/health-promotion-education/cahps-strategy-6-r.pdf
April 14, 2017 - Ambulatory Care: Reminder Systems for Immunizations and Preventive Services
The CAHPS Ambulatory Care
Improvement … November 2017 (updated)
https://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/improvement-guide.html … The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide
Section 6: Strategies for Improving Patient Experience … http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus14.pdf
The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide
Section … The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide
Section 6: Strategies for Improving Patient Experience
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/about/evidencenow-factsheet.pdf
April 01, 2021 - Principal Investigator, EvidenceNOW
North Carolina Cooperative
Supporting Practice Improvement … The practice improvement activities specifically aimed to help practices
boost the number of patients … Practice improvement teams tailored their
support to the needs of each practice,
helping the practices … their capacity for quality
improvement. … Why EvidenceNOW is Important
Supporting Practice Improvement
EvidenceNOW Support
Measuring Success
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/evidencenow-factsheet.pdf
September 01, 2021 - The practice improvement activities specifically aimed to help practices
boost the number of patients … Practice improvement teams tailored their
support to the needs of each practice,
helping the practices … The support
they provided helped practices evaluate their practice
improvement interventions and improve … their capacity for quality
improvement. … Deputy Director, AHRQ Center for
Evidence and Practice Improvement
Laying the Groundwork
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/deliver-facilitation/modules/resources.html
July 01, 2022 - Institute for Healthcare Improvement Tools . … The video Quality Improvement in Healthcare combines history of quality improvement (QI), approaches … , and 4) the concept of “breakthrough” improvement. … The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) uses the Model for Improvement as the framework to guide … improvement work.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-survey-results-used-shaller-webinar.pdf
June 02, 2025 - • Public reporting
• Value-based payment
• Recognition and certification
• Quality improvement
• Research … Homes
• Medical Board
Certification
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps
Use of Survey Results for Quality Improvement … • Increasing focus on improvement by health plans,
health care providers and systems, driven by: … :
CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide
Webcasts, podcasts, and case studies
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www.ahrq.gov … Payment
Use of Survey Results in Recognition and Certification
Use of Survey Results for Quality Improvement
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/lessons.html
August 01, 2021 - at one level drives overall improvement at the state level? … What level of improvement can be expected for measures—and in what time frame—taking into account different … quality improvement approach(es) undertaken at different levels? … For example, if improvement is likely to be more rapid at the provider-level, what are the implications … Assessing intermediate progress
For those measures for which improvement is unlikely to be seen within
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/0085behaviorcoding.xls
January 01, 2012 - developed by the American Medical Association (AMA) - convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement … Version Code Descriptor
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement … Version Code Descriptor
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement … Delivery" CPT value set
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement … extraction (procedure)
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/thomas-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Robust Process Improvement Core
Abstract
Purpose and Scope: To Implement a robust process improvement … Improvement Initiative Results: The heart of implementing a robust process improvement program was
the … for PSLL quality improvement projects; see Table 1. … work; and 3)
integrating parents into improvement work. … Robust
Process Improvement (RPI): Robust process improvement training via modules for the Six Sigma
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/0082cesareancoding.xls
January 01, 2012 - developed by the American Medical Association (AMA) - convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement … Version Code Descriptor
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement … Version Code Descriptor
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement … 18185-9 Gestational age
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement … Delivery" CPT value set
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/chipra-169-gestational-age-additional-specifications.pdf
January 01, 2012 - developed by the
American Medical Association (AMA) - convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement … Version Code Descriptor
American Medical Association-convened
Physician Consortium for Performance
Improvement … Date" LOINC value set
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium
for Performance Improvement … last menstrual period
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium
for Performance Improvement … extraction (procedure)
American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium
for Performance Improvement
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/6bb-toolkit-acronyms.pdf
June 02, 2025 - .
• Clinical champion: A member of a clinic, generally a provider, who champions the opioid
improvement … consensus among clinicians and staff, leading the program, and
offering a clinical voice on the opioid improvement … • ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision.
• IHI: Institute for Healthcare Improvement … morphine milligram equivalents.
• MOUD: Medication treatment for opioid use disorder.
• OIT: Opioid improvement … Six Building Blocks Toolkit 1
• QI lead: The quality improvement lead for implementing opioid management
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/f1_pdi_returnoninvestment.docx
January 01, 2013 - inform decisions on future improvement actions. … Financial investment in improvement actions. … The costs of developing and operating the improvement actions. … ROI = Financial gains / Improvement investment costs
CEA = Improvement investment costs / Effectiveness … Components of Implementation Costs
Stages of Improvement Action Implementation
Implementation of improvement
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/f1_combo_returnoninvestment.docx
January 01, 2013 - inform decisions on future improvement actions. … Financial investment in improvement actions. … The costs of developing and operating the improvement actions. … ROI = Financial gains / Improvement investment costs
CEA = Improvement investment costs / Effectiveness … Components of Implementation Costs
Stages of Improvement Action Implementation
Implementation of improvement