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261. Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/a3_combo_selfassessment.pdf
     May 12, 2016 - , you can highlight capabilities that should be in place within your hospital before implementing improvement … This tool helps you assess how prepared the hospital organization is to implement improvement initiatives … • We emphasize human behavior and work redesign as the keys to improvement. … • We have undertaken quality improvement initiatives to address performance on one or more of … Role in Quality Improvement Please indicate which of the following describe your role in quality improvement

262. Supplement to Evaluation Highlight No. 6: How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve the quality of health care for children? (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/supplhighlight06.pdf
     January 29, 2014 - The partnership used the results to both develop shared medical priorities and inform quality improvement … Idaho so that the two States can eventually function as a regional children’s health care quality improvement … Through the CHIPRA grant, both States are supporting practices in quality improvement activities, including … Vermont is helping 20 States, including Maine, to establish Improvement Partnerships. … As part of this work, Maine is using many of the tools developed by Vermont’s Child Health Improvement

263. The PRIDx framework to engage payers in reducing diagnostic errors in healthcare (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/pridx-framework.pdf
     July 05, 2023 - Keywords: diagnosis; quality improvement; diagnostic errors; patient safety; payer *Correspondingauthor … However, effective diagnostic improvement strategies require new types of partnerships, including external … ’, ‘quality’, ‘patient safety’, ‘safety’, and ‘improvement’, and further combined these with ‘pay’, … The value of level 2 lies in identifying broader opportunities for diagnostic improvement [ ]. … Beyond measurement and reward: methods of motivating quality improvement and accountability.

264. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-mar2023.pdf
     July 14, 2023 - Veterans Affairs The aims of this meeting were to (1) provide agency updates related to diagnosis improvement … o Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee Regulations: CLIAC has three workgroups focused … on looking at the current Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) regulations to determine … See Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC). … • Oral Anticoagulation Surveillance and Improvement through Stewardship (OASIS) o Project is ongoing

265. Appendix-K-Debrief-Audio-Facnotes (doc file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/appendix-k-debrief-audio-facnotes.docx
     April 21, 2014 - Slide 2 On the next slide, what you want to do here is identify your improvement team. … You can see our goal is up there at 100, and so clearly there's room for improvement. … We can see that there's some room for improvement. … , no hope for improvement, or worse, we've made the situation even worse. … The idea here is that quality improvement work is really never done.

266. IMPaCT (Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/primary/impactaw/index.html
     September 01, 2012 - 2013 AHRQ Funding Amount: $999,961 This project will enhance and accelerate existing primary care improvement … Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) AHRQ IMPaCT grant funding will add an array of PCMH practice improvement … Adopt quality improvement models and strategies by primary care practices. … Alignment of the organizations and quality improvement providers. … Development of a process for identification and prioritization of improvement projects.

267. West Virginia State at a Glance (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/wvstateataglance.pdf
     March 01, 2012 - partnering with other States, the grants will support the implementation and evaluation of quality improvement … the initial core set of children’s quality measures while identifying measurement gaps and areas for improvement … impact of a model electronic health record format for children, and (5) test an approach to quality improvement … ) and personal health records (PHRs) and will modify the PHR developed by the West Virginia Health Improvement … West Virginia will provide coaching and technical assistance in quality improvement approaches, the

268. Other Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/antipsychotic/other-resources.html
     September 01, 2021 - Webinar: How to Speak So Leaders Will Listen  (Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), 2019). … Step 2: Form a Team Handbook: Creating Quality Improvement Teams and QI Plans  (AHRQ, 2013). … Science of Improvement: Setting Aims  (IHI, 2020). Step 2. … The Model for Improvement involves testing change ideas using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles. … Improvement, 2007).

269. EvidenceNOW: Midwest Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/midwest.html
     March 01, 2021 - initiative also includes an independent national evaluation designed to determine if and how quality improvement … (Illinois Quality Improvement Organization [QIO]) Northern Illinois University (Illinois REC) Northwestern … Deploy an open-source quality measurement platform (popHealth) to establish a regional quality improvement … shared learning: Regular training webinars and meetings Access to national and regional quality improvement … Primary Care Practice: Early Learning from AHRQ's EvidenceNOW Initiative [STFM Conference on Practice Improvement

270. Module 4: Observation and Integration - Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/observation-fac-notes.html
     June 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.

271. Introduction to the Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4_combo_bestpracticescover.pdf
     June 05, 2016 - purpose of this tool is to provide: • Detailed description of best practices, including suggestions for improvement … to implement the practices provided in this document should be made by a multidisciplinary quality improvement … The Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Tool details each of the following components of … The Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Tool is used to prepare the Gap Analysis (Tool D.5 … Use the appropriate Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Tool to populate the Gap

272. An Introduction to Assessing Practices: Issues to Consider (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-12-intro-to-assessing-practices.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - Describe the key principles of data-driven improvement and why this is a central concept in improvement … • identify areas in need of improvement and strengths that can be leveraged to support improvement … Prioritize improvement efforts and activities. • set improvement goals. … • track progress toward improvement goals. … You can identify sources of stress, ways staff may be underutilized, and ideas for improvement.

273. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 6: An Overview of the Facilitation Process (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-6-pf-process.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - Identify at least three frequently encountered challenges to improvement. … It includes several activities: • Inviting practices to participate in improvement work. … • Identifying other practice members who will be key participants in the improvement work. … the QI team to further define and refine the improvement goals identified during stage 1. … Report on the AHRQ 2010 consensus meeting on practice facilitation for primary care improvement.

274. New AHRQ SOPS™ Health Information Technology Patient Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals - Overview (Brady) (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/healthitwebinar/sops-hit-webcast2-brady.pdf
     August 06, 2018 - of AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ Jeffrey 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 6 AHRQ’s Center for Quality Improvement … AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ AHRQ Patient Safety Priorities AHRQ’sCenter for Quality Improvement

275. Overview of the 14 Transforming Primary Care Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/overview.html
     October 01, 2015 - A variety of processes were used by practices to implement continuous quality improvement as a part of … teams from multiple practices met together as a group to learn from each other and work on quality improvement … Practices also used plan-do-study-act (or plan-do-check-act) cycles for quality improvement efforts. … coach, or process improvement coach) is brought in to assist with the implementation of practice changes … and to help build the internal capacity to engage in quality improvement activities. 5 A study by Scholle

276. Overview of the 14 Transforming Primary Care Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/overview.html
     March 01, 2017 - A variety of processes were used by practices to implement continuous quality improvement as a part of … teams from multiple practices met together as a group to learn from each other and work on quality improvement … Practices also used plan-do-study-act (or plan-do-check-act) cycles for quality improvement efforts. … coach, or process improvement coach) is brought in to assist with the implementation of practice changes … and to help build the internal capacity to engage in quality improvement activities. 5 A study by Scholle

277. Module 17: Introducing a Practice to Facilitation (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-17-introducing-a-practice-to-pf.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - another practice that is using group visits and set up a site visit with them or train the quality improvement … In-person meetings are essential to allow practice leadership to respond to the improvement and request … Your communications with the practice should help develop a “story” about the improvement work at the … Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators. … Facilitating Improvement in Primary Care: The Promise of Practice Coaching.

278. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module2/module2_tools.docx
     November 16, 2011 - Prevention Toolkit Fall Prevention Toolkit Module 2 Tools Tool 2A: Interdisciplinary Team Tool 2B: Quality Improvement … Quality Improvement Process Assessment Question No Somewhat Yes (fully operational) Do you have … 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.

279. Improving Patient Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers: A Resource List for Users of the AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture. (pdf file)
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/asc/resources/asc-resource_list.pdf
     March 01, 2016 - The checklist also provides space for quality improvement ideas. 2 4. … Organizational Learning – Continuous Improvement 1. … and develop improvement processes. 7. … CAHPS® Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide https://cahps.ahrq.gov/quality-improvement/improvement-guide … This guide includes new improvement interventions and offers additional resources. 3.

280. Model State Enhancement Efforts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/final-impact/model.html
     October 01, 2015 - The collaborative formed 13 regional teams and each selected improvement topics based on region and practice … Each practice established a Care Transitions Improvement Team comprised of at least one physician champion … from academic institutions, State and county health agencies, and tribal governments, developed an improvement … “If I had approached those practices individually and asked, ‘Wouldn’t you like to do some quality improvement … In North Carolina, formal efforts to align statewide primary care improvement efforts began in 2006 with