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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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September 01, 2014 - care at every visit Patient self-management support Risk stratification of patients Celebration of improvement … Using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles to rapidly test improvement ideas NCQA PCMH Standards Linking with community … PCMH Improvement
Steady and sustained improvement across all practices in all eight PCMH-A content areas … Clinical Improvement
In the statewide aggregate, PA SPREAD practices achieved significant improvement … Diabetes outcome measures (A1c, BP, LDL) trended towards improvement but did not show statistical significance
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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 01, 2016 - They're going to be sharing their respective strategies for
improvement. … Those are the ways
we try to structure our improvement. … We have annual improvement cycles that begins at the beginning of the
year. … We haven't seen major improvement in this area. … We see some immediate improvement. It's
amazing.
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/asthma-ed-kdd.pdf
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
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/caren-ginsberg-slides-6-11.pdf
February 07, 2019 - Patient Safety
Priorities
Caren Ginsberg, PhD
Director, SOPS and CAHPS Division
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 … do
8
National Steering Committee on
Patient Safety
• Convened by the Institute of Healthcare
Improvement
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November 01, 2013 - Applying health information technology (IT) for quality improvement. … Child Core Set Measures Selected for Pennsylvania’s Pay-for-Improvement CHIPRA Project
Childhood … They subsequently receive $5,000 for each absolute percentage point improvement per measure (up to 5 … In both cases, the health systems had decided to pursue improvement projects only for measures with a … Aware of the practice’s improvement goal, the office staff suggested making reminder calls earlier in
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage.html
October 01, 2021 - An environmental scan on the topic identified several key threats to patient safety amenable to improvement … Network, CVS Health, Iowa Healthcare Collaborative, and Telligen Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement … Quality and Safety, Project Patient Care, Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, Institute for Healthcare Improvement–National … Network, CVS Health, Iowa Healthcare Collaborative, and Telligen Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/instructor/essentials/implguide1.html
November 01, 2018 - Define the Problem or the Opportunity for Improvement
Objective: To specifically state the problem … , challenge, or opportunity for improvement that will be targeted by your TeamSTEPPS intervention; and … Basic performance improvement trending and tracking methods generally suffice. … Institute for Healthcare Improvement website. (www.IHI.org) (free tools and tutorials). … Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2006. (Available on www.IHI.org.)
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January 01, 2015 - Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ
6
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … • Practice Improvement: Create tools for health care
professionals to improve care for their patients … .
8
AHRQ Patient Safety Priorities
• Focus on areas of greatest impact
• Extend patient safety improvement … Program
• Initiated and funded by AHRQ since 2001 to advance the
understanding, measurement, and improvement … about patient
safety culture
Assess patient safety culture to
identify strengths and areas for
improvement
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January 01, 2014 - patients is not compatible with other tasks that I’m required to
perform
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Finding: Modest Improvement … for program enrollees
► Modest improvement in patient-reported care
experiences
► Increase in access … and engagement with providers
(visits)
► No significant improvement in clinician-reported
teamwork … In Patient Experience For Program Enrollees
Finding: No Significant Improvement In Clinician-reported … Teamwork
Finding: Office Visits Increase For Enrolled Patients
Getting Greater Improvement In Patient
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-joy-in-work.pdf
January 07, 2022 - Job Aid: Joy in Work
Joy in work is one of three categories of common goals practices
have for improvement … of turnover, sick leave, or other absences from work
Difficulty getting participation in quality improvement … Analyze root causes and identify opportunities for improvement
Use interviews, 5 Whys, fishbone … Use the Model for Improvement to set improvement aims, define measures of
success, and generate change … strategies to test and scale
Set improvement aims, measurement criteria, and use Plan Do Study
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/h2h/other-resources.html
July 01, 2021 - Home
Pediatric Quality Measures Program
Measure Implementation & Quality Improvement … the PQMP
PQMP Measures
PQMP-Related Publications
Measure Implementation & Quality Improvement … Hospital-to-Home Transitions Toolkit
Introduction
Overview
About the Measure
Key Driver Diagram
Quality Improvement … Strategies
Improvement Data
Other Resources
The Pediatric Hospital Care Improvement
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/asthma/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 … Department Use Toolkit
Introduction
Overview
About the Measure
Key Driver Diagram
Quality Improvement … Strategies
Successful quality improvement (QI) work, including the effective use of … This initiative focused on improving clinical asthma management measures through improvement of office
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/04-yount-sops-action-planning-tool.pdf
June 01, 2019 - What areas do you want to focus on
for improvement? … What areas do you want to
focus on for improvement? … What areas do you want to focus on for improvement? … What areas do you want to focus on for improvement?
2. What are your goals?
3. … SOPS Website
SOPS Updates
Call for SOPS Improvement Stories
SOPS Technical Assistance (TA)
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/overview-fac-notes.html
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. Accessed July 8, 2016.
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October 01, 2020 - Support provider-level improvement.
Improve quality of care. … A drop-down box emphasizes how States used measures to drive quality improvement by reporting results … to stakeholders, aligning quality improvement priorities, and supporting provider-level improvement. … Financial support
Paid providers for reporting measures and demonstrating improvement. … How did these states support quality improvement measurement and feedback to these stakeholders?
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www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/vt-spotlight.pdf
July 01, 2015 - • Helping States develop improvement partnerships. … Vermont supported the development and
expansion of improvement partnerships
State improvement partnerships … With this
support, NIPN—
• Provided technical assistance to improvement
partnerships in more than … • Reports from States: Vermont developed a paper that describes the work
of the National Improvement … • NIPN provided valuable support to improvement
partnerships in more than 20 States, but, without