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421. Module 5: How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices—Training Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/workshop/module-5/guide.html
     September 01, 2017 - Slide 2 Say: A basic principle of quality improvement is: If you can’t measure it, you can … Dissemination of information on performance is critical to your quality improvement effort. … The best bet is to focus on improvement over time within your hospital units. … If you are not doing well in any key area, it provides an opportunity for improvement. … Prioritizing these opportunities for improvement. Developing and refining an Action Plan.

422. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States using quality reports to drive health care improvements for children? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight11.html
     April 01, 2015 - Applying health information technology (IT) for quality improvement. … These discussions helped spur interest in quality improvement (QI) and sharpen the focus on child health … Statewide improvement on quality measures required a mix of strategies Maine and North Carolina reported … improvement on several measures for all children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP ( Table 2 ). … Both States attributed statewide improvement on measures to an array of practice- and State-level initiatives

423. Workflow (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/workflow-analysis-qi.pdf
     February 01, 2005 - Institute for Healthcare Improvement Adapted from the original version. … Carolina Area Health Education CentersNorth Carolina Area Health Education Centers Workflow in Quality Improvement … Prose Workflow Analysis Office Systems Systems in a Practice How to start Workflow in Quality Improvement

424. Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals Training Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressure-injury/index.html
     October 01, 2017 - offers strategies and resources to assist hospital team leaders, practice facilitators, and quality improvement … Hospitals Training Program and the associated Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit to guide systematic quality improvement … Roadmap for how to roll out the Training Program modules and companion Webinars in a systematic quality improvement … Examples of how hospitals have addressed common challenges encountered when doing quality improvement

425. AHRQ Views Blog: Long COVID Is a Case Study of Our Fractured Healthcare System | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/856.html
     March 01, 2023 - for all Americans by investing in health systems research, creating strategies to support practice improvement … and providing data and analytics to identify opportunities for improvement. … Current vacancies include: Director, Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement . … Health Scientist Administrator , Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, Division of Digital Healthcare

426. Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module1/module1_pu-whychange_slides.pptx
     June 16, 2017 - very important to ensure you have things in place from the beginning to achieve and sustain the best improvement … Cost avoidance estimation Patient throughput Turnover reduction Leaders: Aligning improvement efforts … Collaborate With All Disciplines Hardwire Practices and Educate 28 Using Data for Continued Improvement … Share data with: Improvement Team. Frontline staff. … The ongoing quality improvement journey: next stop, high reliability.

427. How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module5/module5_pressureinjury-msmt_slides.pptx
     July 02, 2008 - Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices ADD Hospital Name Here Module 5 1 Basic Quality Improvement … Principle If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 2 2 Quality Improvement Principle Pressure … injury rates and prevention practices must be counted and tracked as one component of a quality improvement … Best practice plans for improvement. Unit goal. … There is always an opportunity for improvement if you aren’t doing as well as you’d like.

428. Module 7: Resolution | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2022 - resolution in addressing unresolved needs or issues to prevent litigation and identify opportunities for improvement … patient and/or family include an apology, compensation, and a show of organizational commitment to improvement … However, patients and/or families frequently want to feel they are part of the improvement process. … organizational performance both before and after the CANDOR process has been implemented to demonstrate improvement … events, financial impact, as well as other indirect impact measures, which could include other areas for improvement

429. How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children's health quality? Evaluation Highlight #13 (pdf file)
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     September 08, 2015 - • Applying health information technology (IT) for quality improvement. … States and practices found that practice facilitators needed to undergo quality improvement (QI) training … Evidence for the impact of quality improvement collaboratives: systematic review. … NICU practices and outcomes associated with 9 years of quality improvement collaboratives. … Internal report from Tri-State Children’s Health Improvement Consortium (T-CHIC).

430. Patient Safety Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/makinghcsafer.html
     June 01, 2022 - Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) were created by the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act to … The toolkit is a general guide to using improvement methods and focuses on the 17 Patient Safety Indicators … care and improving their fall care processes and outcomes through educational and quality improvement … Guide for Hospitals presents step-by-step instructions for planning and implementing patient flow improvement … develop and deploy a customized plan to train staff in teamwork skills and lead a medical teamwork improvement

431. State at a Glance: Alaska | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/ak.html
     March 01, 2019 - while incorporating the measures into a quality measurement framework to identify gaps and areas for improvement … Alaska-specific quality profile using existing population-based measures highlighting needs for quality improvement … Health Centers—to achieve the goals anchored to their medical home definition and to conduct quality improvement

432. State at a Glance: Georgia | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2019 - Establishing a continuous quality improvement framework for CMEs. … Testing an Approach to Quality Improvement of Georgia's Own Design Using resources available through … GA 30303 23-272 404-463-0979 lalucas@hr.state.ga.us To learn more about the CHIPRA CME Quality Improvement

433. EvidenceNOW: North Carolina Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/north-carolina.html
     March 01, 2021 - regional cooperatives composed of public and private health partnerships that provide a variety of quality improvement … initiative also includes an independent national evaluation designed to determine if and how quality improvement … Support Strategy All practices receive 12 months of intense practice support, including onsite quality improvement … 65 practices reported data at baseline and for at least 2 intervention quarters. 54 percent showed improvement

434. Assembleteam (doc file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/modules/assemble/assembleteam.docx
     August 24, 2012 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (or CUSP) Toolkit addresses CUSP team composition for your quality improvement … Slide 18 SAY: The senior executive: · Helps the CUSP team prioritize improvement efforts, · Helps … Identify a quality improvement issue and begin to think about who should be on the team: · What roles … Key hospital departments, such as risk management, quality improvement, and infection prevention, that … Background Quality Improvement Team Information Form The Background Quality Improvement Team Information

435. Module 5: How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices (doc file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module5/module5_pu_measurement.docx
     January 01, 2016 - Slide 2 SAY: A basic principle of quality improvement is: If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve … Continued monitoring will help you understand where you are starting from, and whether your improvement … Therefore, your quality improvement efforts should focus on incidence rates. … Sharing information on performance is critical to your quality improvement effort. … If you are not doing well in one of these key areas, there is an opportunity for improvement.

436. Publications and Additional Materials | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 24, 2018 - Child Health Quality (CHeQ) Partnership (8) Kaiser Permanente Washington/Pediatric Hospital Care Improvement … home (1) Patient safety (1) Preventative care (1) Preventative screening (1) Quality improvement … with Medical Complexity Center of Excellence: Kaiser Permanente Washington/Pediatric Hospital Care Improvement … Brief Report Center of Excellence: Kaiser Permanente Washington/Pediatric Hospital Care Improvement … Care of Suicidal Youth Center of Excellence: Kaiser Permanente Washington/Pediatric Hospital Care Improvement

437. Findings From the AHRQ Transforming Primary Care Grant Initiative: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-synthesis-report.pdf
     July 22, 2015 - For some practices, transformation into a PCMH built upon years of previous practice improvement or … Although a number of definitions exist, efforts to transform into a PCMH go beyond quality improvement … A variety of processes were used by practices to implement continuous quality improvement as a part … Practices also used plan-do-study-act (or plan-do- check-act) cycles for quality improvement efforts. … , including quality improvement efforts, the adoption of EHRs, or a focus on shared decisionmaking.

438. Implementing the New CAHPS® Protocol for Obtaining Patient Comments About Their Care (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/nyp-webinar-servati-phase-two-plan.pdf
     December 01, 2018 - report content, display, access, and distribution – Thoughts about how to facilitate taking action for improvement … comparisons to peer groups where possible – Show trends over time – Provide links to “helpful tips” for improvement

439. Primary Care Physicians' Experiences With and Attitudes Toward Pediatric Quality Reporting (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/chipra-primary-care-physician-reporting.pdf
     December 01, 2016 - ; ER, emergency room; EHR, electronic health record; Qis, quality improvement specialists; and BMI, … Why do some primary care practices engage in practice improvement efforts whereas others do not? … Periodic Survey #76 Quality Improvement Executive Sum- mary. … Health care quality- improvement approaches to reducing child health disparities. … Partnering health disparities research with quality improvement science in pediatrics.

440. HF Measures For Public Comment (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/0085maternitycare.pdf
     February 23, 2012 - and Gynecologists National Committee for Quality Assurance Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement … Measurement as a Tool for Improvement: Performance measurement serves as an important component in a … quality improvement strategy but performance measurement alone will not achieve the desired goal of … To that end, the PCPI will work with quality improvement collaboratives and other initiatives to ensure … Importance of Topic and Opportunities for Improvement Maternity Care was prioritized as a topic for