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421. 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.

422. Making It Work Tip Sheet: Celebrating Success and Spreading CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention Beyond the Unit (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2022 - Infections o This Impact Case Study highlights how ICU nurses and others participated in a quality improvement … ” Module, AHRQ CUSP Toolkit o This module lays out a framework for facilitating spread of a quality improvement … The Spread and Sustainability of Quality Improvement in Healthcare. … Prepared by Healthcare Improvement Scotland. … - improvement-in-healthcare-pdf.pdf.

423. Ncahec (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2014 - ▲ Clinical improvement consulting. … guidelines, improvement strategies, and measures specific to hypertension improvement 4 IVD lipid … control improvement 4 Tobacco dependence change package—clinical guidelines, improvement strategies … guidelines, improvement strategies, and measures specific to hypertension improvement 13 ▲ IVD … IVD lipid control improvement ▲ Tobacco dependence change package—clinical guidelines, improvement

424. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2021 - Department Use Toolkit Introduction Overview About the Measure Key Driver Diagram Quality Improvement … Emergency Department (ED) Use measure, and Explain how to develop and implement quality measurement and improvement … Pediatric Asthma Emergency Department Use measure, Developing and implementing quality measurement and improvement … The intended audiences for this toolkit include states, health plans, health systems, improvement partners … Quality Improvement Strategies .

425. Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - The Framework for Improvement Chapter 2. Analyze Care Delivery Chapter 3. … Based on quality improvement initiatives undertaken at the University of California, San Diego Medical … Center and Emory University Hospitals, this guide assists quality improvement practitioners in leading … Maynard has also been inspired by all those who have engaged in collaborative improvement efforts using … Preventing hospital-associated venous thromboembolism: a guide for effective quality improvement, 2nd

426. Module 4: Systems Change: Preparing and Understanding Your Data To Foster Systems Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2022 - , and the value of monitoring data so it can be used to make system refinements and promote further improvement … Topics covered in this module include: Explaining data and the value it brings to planned improvement … The Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet . … The Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Project Planning Form . Accessed July 1, 2021. … The Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit .

427. 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. 

428. PQMP 2.0 Journal Supplement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2021 - The supplement will focus primarily on issues related to the use of measures to support quality improvement … Commentaries PQMP: Advancing Measurement and Quality Improvement in Pediatric Care. … Integrating Youth Voice in Health Plan Quality Improvement. … Research to Policy: Informing Measurement and Improvement Efforts for Dental Care for Children in Medicaid … Research Articles Contextual Factors Affecting Implementation of Pediatric Quality Improvement Programs

429. An Overview of the CANDOR Process
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     August 20, 2015 - Supports continuous learning and improvement. … Many models in the literature define the steps of change that lead to a sustainable improvement. … The Institute for Healthcare Improvement identified six common elements of sustainability. … Build systems for collecting process, outcome, and quality improvement activity data. … Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2008. Accessed March 22, 2014.

430. Information to Help Hospitals Get Started (pdf file)
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     October 28, 2009 - engagement • Assessing patient- and family-centered care practices at your hospital • Quality improvement … Available at: http://www.ipfcc.org/pdf/getting_started.pdf Institute for Healthcare Improvement … The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health care … Its Web site for providers contains resources and improvement tools to promote health care quality and … related to quality improvement along with links to quality information for consumers.

431. Facilitator-Notes (doc file)
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     March 01, 2017 - An improvement that has become part of the organizational culture and has been maintained regardless … of workforce turnover is an example of a sustained improvement. … Due to the high level of variability in health care, quality improvement must be continuously integrated … · Are other quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) initiatives aligned? … Most importantly, Baptist uses this data to refine its improvement plan.

432. Introducing a New Database for Users of the CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS CAHPS) Survey - GINSBERG (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2021 - Ph.D., CPXP Director, CAHPS and Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Programs Center for Quality Improvement … • Practice Improvement: Create tools for health care professionals to improve care for their patients … Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems • CAHPS Program advances the understanding, measurement, improvement … patient experience −Measuring and collecting CAHPS data −Informative reporting of CAHPS data −Quality improvement … 11 Uses of CAHPS Surveys • Value-based purchasing • Public reporting • Accreditation • Quality improvement

433. Voluntary Hospital Coalitions to Promote Patient Safety (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2004 - safety, focus on processes through improvement plans, and monitor outcomes. … This allows facilities to concentrate their efforts on the improvement process. … In 2001, 137 hospitals submitted improvement plans as well as followup assessments. … In 2002, 147 hospitals submitted improvement plans along with followup assessments. … Most hospitals report significant improvement following implementation of their improvement plans,

434. Preface | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2016 - The Framework for Improvement Chapter 2. Analyze Care Delivery Chapter 3. … . 37 That guide was based on success in VTE prevention 38-41 and quality improvement principles at … The purpose of that publication and this update is to assist hospital improvement teams to close the … The basic principles and essential elements to reach breakthrough levels of improvement in care have … A proven quality improvement (QI) framework to coordinate steps toward breakthrough improvement.

435. Preface | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2016 - The Framework for Improvement Chapter 2. Analyze Care Delivery Chapter 3. … . 37 That guide was based on success in VTE prevention 38-41 and quality improvement principles at … The purpose of that publication and this update is to assist hospital improvement teams to close the … The basic principles and essential elements to reach breakthrough levels of improvement in care have … A proven quality improvement (QI) framework to coordinate steps toward breakthrough improvement.

436. Planning for Sustainability | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - Consider the types of resources that will be needed for long-term maintenance of your improvement efforts … Managers can use this information as the basis for improvement of the work unit; evaluation of individual … Methods for problems solvable at the front line and skill in improvement methods. … "Sustainability: Ensuring continuity in improvement." … Institute for Healthcare Improvement [White paper]. 2005. 8 Go to, e.g., Shook J.

437. 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

438. EvidenceNOW: Ohio Cooperative (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2021 - partners that collectively have the resources, skills, and commitment to support primary care practice improvement … The goal is to catalyze the development of a sustainable, state-based external primary care quality improvement … broader and sustainable external QI support infrastructure by linking Ohio’s three Regional Health Improvement … factors associated with greater improvements in cardiovascular care at the heart healthy quality improvement … project and Cooperative that is focused on accelerating statewide CVD improvement structure.and reducing

439. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 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 … Recognition that health care quality is not where we as a Nation want it to be, and the pace of improvement … effectively integrate clinical advances into routine medical practice; The reality that collective improvement … that physicians’ awareness of their own performance builds a critical and necessary foundation for improvement

440. Understanding SOPS Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Brady (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2018 - of AHRQ’s Patient Safety Priorities and Programs Jeff Brady, MD, MPH Director, Center for Quality Improvement … Service AHRQ Patient Safety Priorities • Focus on areas of greatest impact • Extend patient safety improvement … clinicians and patients • Make the safe thing the easy thing to do 7 AHRQ’s Center for Quality Improvement … National Steering Committee on Patient Safety • Convened by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement … s Patient Safety Priorities and Programs AHRQ Patient Safety Priorities AHRQ’s Center for Quality Improvement