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221. EvidenceNOW Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/index.html
     September 01, 2022 - lack of resources to meet patient needs, and limited access to an infrastructure to support quality improvement … Learn how external quality improvement support helps primary care practices improve the way they work … partners who collectively have the resources, skills, and commitment to support primary care practice improvement … At its core it will use the EvidenceNOW model of primary care practice improvement support. … also focus on increasing integration between primary care and specialty care practices and aligning improvement

222. State Snapshots | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2021 - State-specific healthcare quality information, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement … Pinpoint statewide healthcare quality weaknesses to better target improvement initiatives. … States more accurately identify their strengths and weaknesses, thereby highlighting targeted areas for improvement … The State Snapshots can be of great value to you in your quality improvement efforts if you are interested … Do you know how this tool interfaces with other AHRQ products, such as the Asthma Care Quality Improvement

223. Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators - A “How to” Guide for Improving Hospital Quality and Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/qitool/webinar080116/index.html
     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?

224. Action Planning Worksheets | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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

225. Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

226. Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.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

227. About This Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

228. Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/tcd/overview.html
     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.

229. AHRQ Webcast Introducing the New SOPS Hospital Survey 2.0 - Ginsberg (pdf file)
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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

230. Key Driver Diagram | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.talkingquality.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

231. TeamSTEPPS for Office-Based Care: Implementation Workbook | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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?    

232. Lessons from the Field: Making Performance Comparisons (pdf file)
     www.talkingquality.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.

233. ACTION 4 Partnership Profiles (pdf file)
     www.talkingquality.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

234. Spotlight on Vermont | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

235. Title of Presentation: (pdf file)
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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

236. Action Planning for the SOPS Surveys-Overview (pdf file)
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/02-brady-sops-action-planning-tool.pdf
     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 … . 7 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

237. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies (pdf file)
     www.talkingquality.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),

238. Medical Home Transformation in Pediatric Primary Care--What Drives Change? (pdf file)
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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

239. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Northwest Cooperative (pdf file)
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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

240. Workshop A4 & B4: Building a Multi-Organizational QI Support System
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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