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9981. Module 1: Overview - Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2017 - Slide 5: What Does it Take To Sustain Improvement? … center with less training around quality improvement methods. … methods like the Model for Improvement, which the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has been teaching … Institute for Healthcare Improvement blog . Accessed July 7, 2016. Snee RD. … Sustaining Improvement . Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

9982. Module 4: Script and Slides (doc file)
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      May 01, 2017 - by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, or IHI … This is true of nearly all improvement work of course. … How will we know that a change is improvement? … What can we change to make an improvement? … Target improvement discussions and projects accordingly.

9983. Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2015 - Hospital Context for Quality Improvement Focus The nursing staff at Lurie Children’s Hospital had … How the Pediatric QI Toolkit Was Used Lurie Children’s Hospital used the improvement process laid out … Lead staff for improvement project Sangeeta Schroeder, M.D., hospitalist Lee Budin, M.D., medical … (Tool D.1), helped to get the team’s buy- in early in the quality improvement process. … Abstract Hospital Context for Quality Improvement Focus How the Pediatric QI Toolkit Was Used

9984. Leading Indicators Group: (doc file)
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      January 15, 2016 - Leading Indicators Group: 2B: Quality Improvement Process Background: This tool was originally part … Quality Improvement (QI) - In public health, the use of a deliberate and defined improvement process, … as Plan-Do-Check-Act, that focuses on activities that address community needs and population health improvement … Managers and employees are evaluated for their performance improvement efforts (i.e., performance improvement … The organization regularly develops performance improvement or QI plans that specify timelines, actions

9985. 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

9986. 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

9987. 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

9988. Final Progress Report: Virtual Healthcare Environments Versus Traditional Interactive Team Training (pdf file)
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      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

9989. 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.

9990. 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

9991. 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."

9992. 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

9993. 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

9994. 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.

9995. 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.

9996. 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.

9997. 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.

9998. 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.

9999. 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.

10000. 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.