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81. Using Quality Measures to Drive Improvement: Lessons from the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2016 - Support provider-level improvement. … to stakeholders, (2) aligning quality improvement priorities, and (3) supporting provider-level improvement … Identify QI priorities and track improvement over time. … Paid providers for reporting measures and demonstrating improvement. … the National Improvement Partnership Network.

82. EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - Solution AHRQ is investing in the development of additional State-based external quality improvement … Develop sustainable State-level capacity to support primary care quality improvement.   … Develop a comprehensive, evidence-based approach for a heart health improvement project involving 50 … more practices to promote adoption of findings from patient-centered outcomes research and build improvement … stories to inform other State-based QI efforts and advance shared, statewide goals for primary care improvement

83. Quality Improvement Study Template - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/app-k-blank-temp.html
    May 01, 2017 - Program Tools Ambulatory Surgery Centers Toolkit Sections Quality Improvement … Settings Telemedicine Universal ICU Decolonization Protocol Quality Improvement … Study Template - Implementation Guide Slide 1: Quality Improvement Study Template Slide 2: Problem Statement Slide 3: Improvement … last reviewed May 2017 Page originally created April 2017 Internet Citation: Quality Improvement

84. More about the EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed an innovative model for supporting primary care practice improvement … A key driver diagram is a useful tool for understanding what it takes to achieve an improvement goal, … and for organizing improvement work. … Key Driver 2: Implement a data-driven quality improvement process to integrate evidence into practice … Key Driver 5: Engage patients and families in evidence-based care and quality improvement .

85. Health Literacy Improvement Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - topics in this section Health Literacy About Health Literacy Health Literacy Improvement … Engagement and Education Research Tools, Data, and Funding Health Literacy Improvement … Consensus Organizational Health Literacy Quality Improvement Measures Quality improvement measures … For health literacy improvement tools on patient and family engagement and patient education, go to … March 2024 Page originally created September 2020 Internet Citation: Health Literacy Improvement

86. Practice Facilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2023 - Practice Facilitation Practice facilitation is an approach to supporting improvement … in primary care practices that focuses on building organizational capacity for continuous improvement … Advancing Heart Health identified several benefits to the use of practice facilitators for quality improvement … Help practices overcome EHR challenges and optimize their EHR for meeting quality improvement goals. … Help practices harness patient and practice data to identify gaps in care and effects of improvement

87. Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/qitool/pediatric.html
    December 01, 2017 - Case Study of Improvement Implementation Includes a case study of how a children's hospital used the … Improvement Methods Overview Includes an overview of the steps in a quality improvement process PDF … Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement Includes a tool to assist with planning for ongoing … Available Comprehensive Quality Improvement Guides Includes an annotated list of related comprehensive … quality improvement guides PDF [ - 76.13 KB] G.2.

88. A Frontline Management System To Sustain Improvement in Safety Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/kit.html
    June 01, 2017 - care improvement, with a focus on the Model for Improvement. … According to the Improvement Guide, 1 The Model for Improvement first calls for answers to three questions … (aim) How will we know a change is an improvement? … Sustaining Improvement . Institute for Healthcare Improvement 2016. Accessed July 7, 2016. … The Improvement Guide serves as an excellent reference for all aspects of the science of improvement.

89. Hospital Language Services: Quality Improvement and Performance Measures (pdf file)
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    May 08, 2008 - Hospital Language Services: Quality Improvement and Performance Measures Hospital Language Services … : Quality Improvement and Performance Measures Marsha Regenstein, PhD, MCP; Jennifer Huang, MS; Catherine … “Speaking Together” is the first national quality improvement (QI) collaborative focusing on improving … Together is a national program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that integrates quality improvement

90. Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - care practices can use this Excel spreadsheet to create run charts to track their progress in quality improvement … By creating a visual display of their quality improvement progress, this tool can help practices use … and act upon data to improve care, part of Key Driver 2: Implement a data-driven quality improvement … is available for download under “Tools” on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative Web site’s Quality Improvement … Strategy page at http://www.safetynetmedicalhome.org/change-concepts/quality-improvement-strategy .

91. Material Use Guide - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - Tools included are— Quality Improvement Study Framework Quality Improvement Study Debrief Example … Quality Improvement Study Blank Template Tool: Quality Improvement Study Framework Use this document … to outline the elements of a quality improvement (QI) study. … Tool: Quality Improvement Study Blank Template Once you have reviewed the Quality Improvement Study … Framework and the Quality Improvement Study Debrief Example, you are now ready to begin your own work

92. PQMP 2.0 Journal Supplement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2021 - The supplement will focus primarily on issues related to the use of measures to support quality improvement … Commentaries PQMP: Advancing Measurement and Quality Improvement in Pediatric Care. … Integrating Youth Voice in Health Plan Quality Improvement. … Research to Policy: Informing Measurement and Improvement Efforts for Dental Care for Children in Medicaid … Research Articles Contextual Factors Affecting Implementation of Pediatric Quality Improvement Programs

93. Baylor Scott & White Health: Building a Foundation for Continuous Improvement (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2019 - Baylor Scott & White Health: Building a Foundation for Continuous Improvement Baylor Scott & White … Health: Building a Foundation for Continuous Improvement The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … All of the stories are cataloged, providing a robust library of quality and safety improvement ideas … Valuing the Role of Staff in Continuous Improvement Having a data infrastructure able to generate … insights and a culture that supports improvement based on those data are critical to being a health

94. Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Cultivating Cultural Competence (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2017 - Experience with Ambulatory Care: Cultivating Cultural Competence The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement … August 2017 https://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/improvement-guide.html … The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide Section 6: Strategies for Improving Patient Experience … https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide Section … The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide Section 6: Strategies for Improving Patient Experience

95. Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Group Visits (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2017 - Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Group Visits The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement … October 2017 (updated) https://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/improvement-guide.html … https://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/improvement-guide.html The CAHPS … Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide Section 6: Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory … p=The_Chronic_Care_Model&s=2 The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide Section 6: Strategies for

96. Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2022 - National Steering Committee for Patient Safety (NSC), convened in 2018 by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement … The NSC is co-chaired by Jeffrey Brady, M.D., M.P.H., former director of AHRQ's Center for Quality Improvement … Gandhi, M.D., M.P.H., CPPS, Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Chief Safety and Transformation … Jeff Brady, former director of AHRQ's Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, and Dr. … Ghandi, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

97. Advancing Heart Health Research and Results: What We've Learned | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - Access increased capacity for quality improvement after EvidenceNOW  (PDF, 662 KB). … care researchers and providers across the United States who are interested in primary care practice improvement … Whether practices expand their capacity for quality improvement and implementation of new evidence into … The national evaluation will also examine: How each cooperative implements its quality improvement … interactions with other organizations (e.g., EHR vendors, local Regional Extension Centers, and Quality Improvement

98. Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement Using CAHPS® Surveys: Summary of Presentations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2020 - & Recent Events Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement … They conduct census sampling to focus on improvement needs at the unit level. … Mark Friedberg, MD, Senior Vice President of Performance Measurement and Improvement, Blue Cross Blue … Methods used to improve CAHPS scores have included incentives for improvement, network curation, steerage … This process of developing and implementing the toolkit led to an improvement in the VA Compare star

99. Patient Safety Awareness Week 2022 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Safety Awareness Week 2019 AHRQ Summit and Roundtable on Research Priorities for Patient Safety Improvement … and Human Services, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement … Find out more about  Patient Safety Awareness Week   from the sponsor, Institute for Healthcare Improvement … Learn more about AHRQ's work in  Patient Safety and Quality Improvement . … Issue Brief 7: Improving Education—A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes   TeamSTEPPS® for Diagnosis Improvement

100. AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Results: Increased Capacity for Quality Improvement in Small Primary Care Practices (pdf file)
     www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/evaluation/capacity-infographic.pdf
     April 01, 2018 - AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Results: Increased Capacity for Quality Improvement in Small Primary Care Practices … AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Results: Increased Capacity for Quality Improvement in Small Primary Care Practices … For example, practices with capacity for quality improvement are eager to learn from mistakes, create … Quality Improvement Services On-site practice facilitation and coaching Health IT support Shared … help them improve the delivery of the ABCS of heart health and increase their capacity for quality improvement