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441. Overview | 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 … Primary care quality improvement (QI) collaboratives have been shown to be effective in improving asthma … Pediatric Asthma Emergency Department Use and explain how to develop and implement quality measurement and improvement … The measurement specifications and QI strategies can be used by states, health plans, health systems, improvement … IMPLEMENT for Child Health initiative, based in San Francisco, California, and the Vermont Child Health Improvement

442. Understanding SOPS Surveys: A Primer for New users -Gray (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/2-SOPS_101_Webcast_2020-Gray.pdf
     January 01, 2020 - and use best methods for development and testing • Advances the understanding, measurement, and improvement … Teamwork • Communication Openness • Communication About Error • Organizational Learning—Continuous improvement … Organizational Learning-Continuous Improvement 85% 92% 2. … Identify patient safety culture areas for improvement 2. … Communicate your action plan 28 Improvement Resources Improving Patient Safety: Resource Lists for

443. Understanding SOPS® Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Ginsberg (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … • Practice Improvement: Create tools for health care professionals to improve care for their patients … . 8 AHRQ Patient Safety Priorities • Focus on areas of greatest impact • Extend patient safety improvement … Program • Initiated and funded by AHRQ since 2001 to advance the understanding, measurement, and improvement … ► the collection of data and informative reporting of patient safety culture data ► patient safety improvement

444. Title of Presentation: (pdf file)
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     September 24, 2015 - quality of care • Report results to stakeholders • Align QI priorities • Support provider-level improvement … Make it possible to compare states, regions, and health plans – Identify QI priorities and track improvement … for providers to improve care • CHIPRA state strategies – Formed multi-stakeholder quality improvement … $5,000 per percentage-point improvement $25,000 per measure; $100,000 per provider 8 high … Helping Providers Improve Supporting Provider Improvement Slide Number 14 Slide Number 15 Engaging

445. VHA's Journey to High Reliability: Advancing Toward Zero Harm and Becoming a Learning Health System
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     September 26, 2023 - Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) Teams use effective tools for continuous learning and improvement … , applying the Lean improvement methodology CPI (Lean) Training Knowledge Exchange Site A streamlined … teams to help guide efforts Green Belt: Knowledge and skills to lead and manage improvement projects … member or lead small projects White Belt: Introductory knowledge of improvement science and problem … solving Non-belted Lean Training Options: Leading Organizational Improvement (Executive Leaders) Lean

446. EvidenceNOW Building State Capacity Profile: Alabama Cooperative (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2021 - The goal is to catalyze the development of a sustainable, state-based external primary care quality improvement … Goal Alabama’s Heart Health Improvement Project (HHIP) is designed to build primary care quality improvement … Alabama Cooperative Approach The Heart Health Improvement Project will use a three- pronged approach … including: (1) practice facilitation and technical assistance; (2) improvement through data transparency … Evaluation Alabama’s Heart Health Improvement Project evaluation plan will examine the effectiveness

447. Management Practices for Sustainability Module 4: Observation and Integration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2017 - The image shows how these elements are mutually reenforcing to effect sustained improvement. … *Quality improvement Slide 3: Benefits of Direct, Regular Observation: Surgical Safety Checklist Usage … unit SPD: Sterile processing department PAC: Postacute care unit  Slide 6: Apply the Model for Improvement … Use regular, direct observation by the unit supervisor Slide 7: Apply the Model for Improvement to … Slide 8: Apply the Model for Improvement to Observation–3 Cycle Question Preparation

448. Part One: Physician Feedback Report Fundamentals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2016 - Performance improvement messaging for physicians: lessons from market research* Part … Providing linkages and facilitating access to additional improvement-related tools and resources. … The potential of feedback reports to support physician behavior change and performance improvement is … A recent systematic review of randomized clinical trials examining the effect of quality improvement … Regional multi-stakeholder health care improvement collaboratives.

449. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - (Go to  Key Driver 5: Engage patients and families in evidence-based care and quality improvement for … Key Driver 2: Implement a data-driven quality improvement process to integrate evidence into practice … Quality improvement (QI) is a systematic, data-driven process for managing that change. … Once a practice chooses a QI approach and tools and sets improvement goals, it can identify and test … improvement is a team sport – improving quality is everyone’s job.

450. 7-Implementation-Guide (doc file)
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     June 01, 2023 - Gather baseline data and set improvement goals 6. … Identify facilitators and barriers to implementing quality and safety improvement projects and plan ways … culture report with ISCR team and develop plan for improvement with frontline staff AHRQ Culture … Check-Up Tool Discuss areas of strength and opportunities for improvement Use the space below to … Share process measure performance relevant to the area and discuss ideas for improvement Use the

451. Lessons from the Field: Making Performance Comparisons (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2019 - What level of improvement can be expected for measures--and in what time frame – taking into account … Several of the informants also spoke of the importance of setting incremental improvement targets … benchmarks or targets, depending on the circumstances and goals (e.g., improvement vs. … ◦ Improvement may be observed for individual entities, however observing improvement at higher levels … Benchmarking: a method for continuous quality improvement in health.

452. Planning Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2019 - Disparities and Improvement of Cultural and Linguistic Competence For decades, the prevalence of racial … Why Should M+COs Care About CLAS Improvement? … It makes good business and health care sense for M+COs to undertake a CLAS quality improvement program … Identifying feasible priority areas for improvement of CLAS based on the assessment. … A number of topics to consider for quality improvement projects are presented in this guide.

453. Webinar Transcript: Better Care, Healthier People and Communities, More Affordable Care: 5 Years of the National Quality Strategy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2016 - We saw a dramatic improvement in access, and an improvement in quality, though it's not as fast as any … It's key to having an ongoing improvement program. … How did they use health IT to facilitate quality improvement? … Essentially, they are a smaller version of the quality improvement network-quality improvement organizations … Now we keep up all of our quality improvement data internally to help guide continuous quality improvement

454. Module 2: Systems Change: Laying the Foundation, Leadership, and Action Plans | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2022 - Form a multidisciplinary CR quality improvement (QI) team, including the ideal composition of the team … The Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit . … The Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Project Planning Form . Accessed February 14, 2020. … The Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet .

455. SOPS Ambulatory Surgery Center Webcast - GINSBERG (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ 5 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … • Practice Improvement: Create tools for health care professionals to improve care for their patients … . 8 AHRQ Patient Safety Priorities • Focus on areas of greatest impact • Extend patient safety improvement … Program • Initiated and funded by AHRQ since 2001 to advance the understanding, measurement, and improvement … about patient safety culture Assess patient safety culture to identify strengths and areas for improvement

456. Endnotes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2019 - Res Soc Work Pract 2005 January;15:29-40. 5 Vermont Child Health Improvement Program. … Establishing a Child Health Improvement Partnership: A How-to Guide. 2nd ed. … Burlington, VT: Vermont Child Health Improvement Program; October 2009. … Accessed October 21, 2013. 8 Centre for Healthcare Quality Improvement. … Toronto, Ontario: Centre for Healthcare Quality Improvement; June 2010.

457. Webinar Transcript - National Quality Strategy Webinar: Introducing Nine Levers to Support the Aims and Priorities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2016 - data to populate dashboards and identify areas of focus that require quality improvement. … This is our quality improvement lever. … and process improvement. … We've described in detail how each can be used for quality improvement. … This is also where process improvement bridges far beyond inside hospital or clinic walls.

458. Assessing Indicator Rates Using Trends and Comparators (pdf file)
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     March 20, 2016 - These comparisons will help identify which PDIs the hospital may need to address for quality improvement … process, regarding which indicators are priorities for quality improvement actions … If the postimplementation trend shows an improvement over the baseline trend, you have identified a … possible effect of your improvement efforts. … identify priority PDIs for improvement, as well as later in the process to assess how much improvement

459. Implementation-Guide-Appendix-A (doc file)
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     January 01, 2008 - snapshot of some key roles, responsibilities, and tasks often lacking in support of hospital quality improvement … This resource is adapted from a checklist developed by Andrea Silvey, Ph.D., M.S.N., chief quality improvement … officer of Health Services Advisory Group, Inc., the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Arizona … the chief executive officer to delineate executive champion roles and responsibilities for quality improvement … Physician performance improvement: an overview of methodologies.

460. Assessing Indicator Rates Using Trends and Comparators (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/b5_combo_assessingtrendscomparators.pdf
     March 20, 2016 - These comparisons will help identify which QIs the hospital may need to address for quality improvement … process, regarding which indicators are priorities for quality improvement actions … If the postimplementation trend shows an improvement over the baseline trend, you have identified a … possible effect of your improvement efforts. … identify priority QIs for improvement, as well as later in the process to assess how much improvement