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9881. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/asthma/introduction.html
      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 .

9882. CAHPS 101 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-101-webcast-02-ginsburg.pdf
      February 22, 2019 - AHRQ’S CAHPS® PROGRAM Caren Ginsberg, Ph.D., CPXP, Director, CAHPS Division Center for Quality Improvement … • Practice Improvement: Create tools for health care professionals to improve care for their patients … Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems • Program advancing the understanding, measurement, and improvement … Uses of CAHPS Surveys • Value-based purchasing • Public reporting • Accreditation • Quality improvement … Collecting patient experience data using narrative protocols for purposes of facilitating quality improvement

9883. New AHRQ SOPS® Diagnostic Safety Supplemental Items for Medical Offices - Ginsberg (pdf file)
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      June 10, 2021 - Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ 6 AHRQ’s SOPS Program • Initiated and funded … by AHRQ since 2001 to advance the understanding, measurement, and improvement of patient safety culture … ► the collection of data and informative reporting of patient safety culture data ► patient safety improvement … Teamwork • Communication Openness • Communication About Error • Organizational Learning—Continuous improvement … awareness about patient safety • Assess patient safety culture to identify strengths and areas for improvement

9884. New AHRQ SOPS® Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals - Ginsberg (pdf file)
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      January 21, 2022 - Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ 6 AHRQ’s SOPS Program • Initiated and funded … by AHRQ since 2001 to advance the understanding, measurement, and improvement of patient safety culture … ► the collection of data and informative reporting of patient safety culture data ► patient safety improvement … Teamwork • Communication Openness • Communication About Error • Organizational Learning—Continuous improvement … awareness about patient safety • Assess patient safety culture to identify strengths and areas for improvement

9885. 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 .

9886. Caregiver Innovations to Reduce Harm in Neonatal Intensive Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/caregiver-nicu-long-desc.html
      April 01, 2022 - increase organizational improvement capacity. … Development and testing of the Stakeholder Quality Improvement Perspectives Survey (SQuIPS) . … Assessing Quality Improvement Team Processes - A Meeting Observation Tool. … Challenges in patient safety improvement research in the era of electronic health records . … Development and testing of the Stakeholder Quality Improvement Perspectives Survey (SQuIPS) .

9887. Training Program Summary: Practice Coach Training for the North Carolina AHEC Practice Support Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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 … guidelines, improvement strategies, and measures specific to hypertension improvement IVD lipid control … improvement Tobacco dependence change package—clinical guidelines, improvement strategies, and measures

9888. ONC Agency Specific Plan for the 2014 National Quality Strategy (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2014 - ONC Agency Specific Plan for the 2014 National Quality Strategy National Strategy for Quality Improvement … Practice transformation and health IT enabled quality improvement requires both clinical decision support … The Office of the National Coordinator envisions an electronic health records quality improvement feedback … Human Services Entrepreneurs Program for multi-stakeholder public–private collaboration and process improvement … Services’ quality measurement and reporting enterprise. 1 National Strategy for Quality Improvement

9889. Idaho Hospitals Use AHRQ Toolkit to Revise Protocols for Preventing Blood Clots | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Studies November 2011 Between January and September 2010, AHRQ partnered with seven Quality Improvement … The 60-page guide details how to start, implement, evaluate, and sustain a quality improvement strategy … According to team leader, Nolan Bybee, RRT, Performance Improvement Director, "There was also significant … Administrative support for quality has grown, physician engagement in quality improvement efforts is … increasing, and additional resources are being committed to care process improvement."

9890. 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

9891. 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.

9892. Final Progress Report: Virtual Healthcare Environments Versus Traditional Interactive Team Training (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/taekman-report.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - There was a trend for improvement in the MBS condition (p=0.11). … We then compared the degree of improvement across training conditions by comparing immediate improvement … improvement (R=-0.60, p<0.001) and long-term improvement (R=-0.65, p<0.001). … The top 18% showed no improvement over time. … The greatest rates of improvement were on the order of 20% on the SAFE- Teams scale, with a median improvement

9893. National Center for Pediatric Practice-Based Research and Learning (C-PRL) (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2015 - Practice-based quality improvement/research networks: Full speed forward. … /Quality-Improvement-Innovation-Networks/Pages/Practice-Improvement-Networks-Projects.aspx http://www.aap.org … /en-us/professional-resources/practice-support/quality-improvement/Quality-Improvement-Innovation-Networks … /quality-improvement/Quality-Improvement-Innovation-Networks/Pages/Safe-and-Healthy-Beginnings-Improvement-Project.aspx … http://www.aap.org/en-us/professional-resources/practice-support/quality-improvement/Quality-Improvement-Innovation-Networks

9894. Information to Help Hospitals Get Started (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/Ways_To_Learn_More_508.pdf
      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.

9895. 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.

9896. Strengthening National Efforts to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2014 - Hines Abstract National improvement campaigns to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are … Factors that affect which initiatives and parts of the improvement campaign will be rapidly adopted and … effort will yield and whether the improvement effort will be viable. … Cambridge (MA): Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2006. … The checklist—a tool for error management and performance improvement.

9897. Strengthening National Efforts to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/patient-safety-resources/advances-in-hai/hai-article2.html
      June 01, 2014 - Hines Abstract National improvement campaigns to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are … Factors that affect which initiatives and parts of the improvement campaign will be rapidly adopted and … effort will yield and whether the improvement effort will be viable. … Cambridge (MA): Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2006. … The checklist—a tool for error management and performance improvement.

9898. 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.

9899. Preface | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/preface.html
      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.

9900. 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.