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561. Workshop A4 & B4: Building a Multi-Organizational QI Support System
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     September 01, 2014 - care at every visit Patient self-management support Risk stratification of patients Celebration of improvement … Using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles to rapidly test improvement ideas NCQA PCMH Standards Linking with community … PCMH Improvement Steady and sustained improvement across all practices in all eight PCMH-A content areas … Clinical Improvement In the statewide aggregate, PA SPREAD practices achieved significant improvement … Diabetes outcome measures (A1c, BP, LDL) trended towards improvement but did not show statistical significance

562. Module 1: Script and Slides (doc file)
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     May 01, 2017 - for Sustainability, Module 1: Overview SAY: This module was created by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement … SLIDE 5 Title: What Does it Take To Sustain Improvement? … The testing was focused on one large center with a foundation of quality improvement, and one smaller … center with less training around quality improvement methods. … methods like the Model for Improvement, which the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has been teaching

563. Vt-Spotlight (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2015 - • Helping States develop improvement partnerships. … Vermont supported the development and expansion of improvement partnerships State improvement partnerships … With this support, NIPN— • Provided technical assistance to improvement partnerships in more than … • Reports from States: Vermont developed a paper that describes the work of the National Improvement … • NIPN provided valuable support to improvement partnerships in more than 20 States, but, without

564. Spotlight on Vermont | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2015 - Helping States develop improvement partnerships. … Vermont supported the development and expansion of improvement partnerships State improvement partnerships … The National Improvement Partnership Network (NIPN), operated by the University of Vermont, helps States … With this support, NIPN— Provided technical assistance to improvement partnerships in more than 20 … Reports from States: Vermont developed a paper that describes the work of the National Improvement

565. New AHRQ SOPS® Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Nursing Homes - Caren Ginsberg, Ph.D. (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ 6 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

566. Management Practices for Sustainability Module 3: Problem Solving and Escalation | 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. … Slide 6: Apply the Model for Improvement To Improve Your Problem Solving What are you trying to … How will you know that a change is an improvement? … What can you change to make an improvement? … Slide 7: Apply the Model for Improvement To Improve Your Problem Solving–2 Plan: Lay out the specifications

567. BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 (doc file)
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     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 indications … Monitor progress on each opportunity for improvement regularly.

568. Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment (doc file)
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     May 12, 2016 - checklist, you can highlight capabilities that should be in place within your hospital before implementing improvement … for Change Management, to evaluate how ready your organizational infrastructure is to support quality improvement … This tool helps you assess how prepared the hospital organization is to implement improvement initiatives … Role in Quality Improvement Please indicate which of the following describe your role in quality improvement … efforts at your institution (check all that apply) |_| Senior leadership |_| Quality improvement team

569. Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment (pdf file)
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     May 12, 2016 - , you can highlight capabilities that should be in place within your hospital before implementing improvement … Change Management, to evaluate how ready your organizational infrastructure is to support quality improvement … This tool helps you assess how prepared the hospital organization is to implement improvement initiatives … • We emphasize human behavior and work redesign as the keys to improvement. … Role in Quality Improvement Please indicate which of the following describe your role in quality improvement

570. Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/a3_combo_selfassessment.pdf
     May 12, 2016 - , you can highlight capabilities that should be in place within your hospital before implementing improvement … This tool helps you assess how prepared the hospital organization is to implement improvement initiatives … • We emphasize human behavior and work redesign as the keys to improvement. … • We have undertaken quality improvement initiatives to address performance on one or more of … Role in Quality Improvement Please indicate which of the following describe your role in quality improvement

571. 2. How will we manage change? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Link to quality improvement expertise. … methods and in team facilitation from the quality improvement or performance improvement department. … Ask the member from the quality improvement or performance improvement department to provide some orientation … Within your organization, quality improvement or performance improvement experts are likely to have expertise … redesign and process improvement.

572. 2. How will we manage change? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Link to quality improvement expertise. … methods and in team facilitation from the quality improvement or performance improvement department. … Ask the member from the quality improvement or performance improvement department to provide some orientation … Within your organization, quality improvement or performance improvement experts are likely to have expertise … redesign and process improvement.

573. CHCANYS Participation Guide (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2017 - A team’s appointed Quality Improvement/EHR Leader... … The Model for Improvement The Model for Improvement is a simple yet powerful tool for accelerating … How will we know that a change is an improvement? … What change can we make that will result in improvement? … Model for Improvement Act Plan Study Do http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/Improvement/ImprovementMethods

574. 2013 Child Core Set Measure Retirement Process Summary of SNAC Scoring: Round II – Final Scoring (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2014 - Large N, and room for improvement in performance. … Drives improvement. … Consistent data re: improvement. … General Improvement opportunity. … Drive improvement.

575. Debrief Example Audio Transcript/Facilitator Notes - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - I'm one of the quality improvement advisers in the AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery, and for … Slide 3: Improvement Team On the next slide, what you want to do here is identify your improvement … We can see that there's some room for improvement. … , no hope for improvement, or worse, we've made the situation even worse. … The idea here is that quality improvement work is really never done.

576. An Introduction to Assessing Practices: Issues to Consider (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Describe the key principles of data-driven improvement and why this is a central concept in improvement … • identify areas in need of improvement and strengths that can be leveraged to support improvement … Prioritize improvement efforts and activities. • set improvement goals. … • track progress toward improvement goals. … You can identify sources of stress, ways staff may be underutilized, and ideas for improvement.

577. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 6: An Overview of the Facilitation Process (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Identify at least three frequently encountered challenges to improvement. … It includes several activities: • Inviting practices to participate in improvement work. … • Identifying other practice members who will be key participants in the improvement work. … the QI team to further define and refine the improvement goals identified during stage 1. … Report on the AHRQ 2010 consensus meeting on practice facilitation for primary care improvement.

578. Chapter 4. Evaluation Design (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Clinic teams had varying levels of experience with quality improvement process. … Assure leadership commitment to quality improvement process and intervention.   … Clinic and board quality improvement objectives lend support to interventions. 2. … Clearly understood and supported the quality improvement process. … All States have a QIO that might have some resources for quality improvement efforts.

579. Toolkit Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - It also explains how to use tools such as checklist templates, quality improvement study frameworks, … Teams Patient and Family Engagement Sustainability Training and Tools for Sustaining Improvement … developed to help ambulatory surgery centers sustain the gains achieved through implementing this quality improvement … Management Practices for Sustainability : These modules, developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

580. PowerPoint Presentation
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     September 03, 2014 - Quality improvement projects should complement this work, not interfere with it. … , but all improvement requires change! … 16 Checklist and Audit Tools SAY: Not all change is improvement, but all improvement requires change … Highlight the important points, and clearly identify where improvement is needed. … Do you want the team to see where improvement is needed?