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December 01, 2017 - To be successful, improvement efforts within hospitals need to have attention and active support from … This support will help to motivate our staff to engage fully in improvement activities. … use of the QI Toolkit for improvement
Describes tools used by the hospitals to improve performance … Implementation Methods
Slide 42
Improvement Methods Overview (Tool D.1.) … Any suggestions for future quality improvement tools?
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November 01, 2018 - Define the Problem, Challenge, or Opportunity for Improvement
Objective: To specifically state the … When will the improvement occur? Within what timeframe?
… When will the improvement occur? Within what timeframe?
… When will the improvement occur? Within what timeframe?
… or map the process — where the target problem or opportunity for improvement occurs — write down the
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/index.html
September 01, 2021 - prevention strategies, CAUTI prevention, antibiotic stewardship), resident and family engagement, quality improvement … , and sustainability to guide your facility through implementing an improvement project to reduce HAIs … Toolkit
The toolkit is organized into three main sections that your facility can use to implement an improvement … Sections
Each section contains customizable resources that your facility can use to implement an improvement … project, the AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI, which involved a national quality improvement
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/child-hcahps/overview.html
July 01, 2021 - Home
Pediatric Quality Measures Program
Measure Implementation & Quality Improvement … the PQMP
PQMP Measures
PQMP-Related Publications
Measure Implementation & Quality Improvement … Introduction
Overview
About Measure Specifications and Reporting
Key Driver Diagram
Quality Improvement … Strategies
Improvement Data
Other Resources
The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare … Child HCAHPS allows for the tracking of quality improvement within individual hospitals and for the comparison
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/precautions/guide/about.html
September 01, 2020 - Español
FAQs
Home
Health Literacy
Health Literacy Improvement … topics in this section
Health Literacy
About Health Literacy
Health Literacy Improvement … Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
About This Guide
General Toolkit Guidance
Path to Improvement … Review both documents side-by-side prior to starting health literacy-related quality improvement (QI) … In Section 2, Path to Improvement , we address Tools 1 through 3, which are aimed at helping practices
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August 01, 2021 - Home
Pediatric Quality Measures Program
Measure Implementation & Quality Improvement … the PQMP
PQMP Measures
PQMP-Related Publications
Measure Implementation & Quality Improvement … Strategies
Improvement Data
Other Resources
This NQF-endorsed measure (NQF#2797) … Health plans may use the measure for public reporting and quality improvement efforts within the organization … This would allow MHPs to identify members to target for improvement in performance scores.
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June 01, 2020 - AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™
(SOPS™) Program
Caren Ginsberg, PhD
Center for Quality Improvement … • Practice Improvement: Create tools for health care professionals to improve care
for their patients … .
7
AHRQ Patient Safety Priorities
• Focus on areas of greatest impact
• Extend patient safety improvement … and use best methods for
development and testing
• Advances the understanding, measurement, and improvement … ► the collection of data and informative reporting of patient safety culture data
► patient safety improvement
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/child-hcahps/key-drivers.html
July 01, 2021 - Home
Pediatric Quality Measures Program
Measure Implementation & Quality Improvement … the PQMP
PQMP Measures
PQMP-Related Publications
Measure Implementation & Quality Improvement … Introduction
Overview
About Measure Specifications and Reporting
Key Driver Diagram
Quality Improvement … Strategies
Improvement Data
Other Resources
The Center of Excellence for Pediatric
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/officebasedcare/impworkbook.html
December 01, 2015 - Define the Problem, Challenge, or Opportunity for Improvement Step 3. … Develop a Plan for Sustained Continuous Improvement Step 8. … When will the improvement occur? Within what timeframe?
… When will the improvement occur? Within what timeframe?
… When will the improvement occur? Within what timeframe?
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/lessons/lessons-performance-comparisons.pdf
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.
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/factsheets/translating/action3/ACTION4-profiles.pdf
February 08, 2021 - Also partnered are quality improvement networks and quality
improvement organizations who can more broadly … In addition, our Quality Improvement Network-Quality
Improvement Organization partners have access to … Organizations-Quality Improvement Networks), and health
services research institutions that focus on … )
Healthcentric Advisors
Telligen
The Joint Commission
Improvement or Learning Cynosure Health … or Measurement
Organizations (including Quality Improvement
Organizations and Quality Innovation
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/vt-spotlight.html
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
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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
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February 05, 2019 - 6
Overview of AHRQ’s Patient Safety
Priorities
Jeff Brady, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Quality Improvement … • Practice Improvement: Create tools for health
care professionals to improve care for their
patients … .
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AHRQ Patient Safety Priorities
• Focus on areas of greatest impact
• Extend patient safety improvement … Steering Committee on
Patient Safety
• AHRQ is co-leading with the Institute for Healthcare
Improvement
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www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/key_drivers_descriptions.pdf
February 01, 2019 - 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 … team that meets regularly
Quality improvement is a team sport – improving quality is everyone’s job. … These include the Model for Improvement (focused on continuous change made by
rapid cycle testing),
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April 01, 2015 - McAllister, BSN, MS, MHA
Institution: Center for Medical Home Improvement, Crotched Mountain Foundation … The practices used quality improvement (QI) techniques and
other strategies to enhance care coordination … Results of Transformation Efforts
Sustained gains in key PCMH domains were evidenced by a 21 percent improvement … score across all 12 practices at the end of the learning collaborative, and an
additional 13 percent improvement … Coordination” and
“Chronic Condition Management,” followed by “Organization Capacity” and “Quality Improvement
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November 01, 2017 - cooperatives
composed of public and private health partnerships that provide a variety of quality improvement … Provide comprehensive practice support to build quality improvement (QI)
capacity within these practices … Practice facilitators administer
the Quality Improvement Change Assessment (QICA),
a tool developed … by the Cooperative to determine a
practice’s need for practice improvement assistance. … http://www.escalates.org
Northwest Cooperative
Update
The Quality Improvement Capacity Assessment
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January 20, 2006 - Uses a range of approaches and methods from:
Organizational development
Project management
Quality improvement … /practice improvement
Builds internal capacity of the practice to conduct improvement activities over … from other types of consulting
Longer term relationship, closer connection
Supports broad range of improvement … Generalists trained in office-based care improvement
Competencies in many areas:
Quality improvement
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February 16, 2011 - Prevention Toolkit
Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit
Module 2 Tools
2A: Multidisciplinary Team
2B: Quality Improvement … Quality Improvement Process
Assessment Question
No
Somewhat
Yes (fully operational)
1. … Are managers and employees evaluated for their performance improvement efforts (i.e., is performance … improvement in their job descriptions)? … Set target goals for improvement.
QI department
Within 8 weeks from initiative start
4.
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March 10, 2021 - Healthcare
System Supports
Improvement
• Healthcare system is equipped with a structure and
capacity … to engage in quality improvement work
• Electronic record can provide clinical decision support
• Data … Quality measures are clearly articulated to health plans
and healthcare providers
• Support quality improvement … The national improvement partnership network: state-based partnerships that improve primary care quality … asthma by
understanding systems issues
and creating partnerships
between healthcare
providers, improvement