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1. 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 - As a result of these interventions, Neighborhood has achieved and been able to maintain improvements … Based on prior efforts to achieve and sustain improvements, Kaiser Permanente conducted a gap analysis … that coaching improved providers’ overall provider rating and CAHPS communication scores, but these improvements … They also identified some barriers to making improvements, including the lag time between when the CAHPS … Recommendations based on this work include focusing on improvements in the implementation process rather

2. Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2023 - Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable improvements … developed a guide to help patients, families, and health professionals work together as partners to promote improvements

3. AHRQ Practice Facilitation Training Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2022 - Helping Practices Scale Improvements . Joy in Work .   … swimlane diagram, facilitate a process mapping session for a practice, and help a practice design process improvements … Helping Practices Scale up Improvements – Learn how to support change throughout a practice by designing … Access additional resources and a table of contents for Helping Practices Scale up Improvements.

4. Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement (pdf file)
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   June 05, 2016 - This tool provides guidance on how to monitor and report your progress in sustaining performance improvements … provides the following information: • An overview and rationale for a monitoring system to sustain improvements … After you work successfully to achieve improvements in clinical and administrative practices, it is … Evaluation and Debriefing (Tool D.8), both of which provide guidance on measuring and evaluating improvements … This process mirrors the one you used to implement your process improvements, for which tools in this

5. TeamSTEPPS Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2018 - Positive teamwork behaviors and improvements in processes and outcomes are reinforced and rewarded. … A Framework for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-wide Change. … (Available on A Framework for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-wide Change ).  … Identification of the specific problem, challenge or opportunity for improvements that will be the … This in turn will prevent the targeted problem from recurring (or lead to your targeted improvements)

6. EvidenceNOW Infographics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2023 - EvidenceNOW Infographics AHRQ's EvidenceNOW data infographics provide visual snapshots of the program improvements

7. AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training Modules for Health Care Leaders and Professionals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2023 - Content AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training for Health Care Leaders addresses improvements … pilot test of the training modules, and on the experiences of other hospitals implementing quality improvements

8. Enroll Now for Program on Improving Antibiotic Use in Telemedicine | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2024 - The program will begin in June and provide expert coaching to promote sustainable improvements and improved

9. Advancing Heart Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2024 - In almost every Cooperative, practices with lower baseline QI capacity made larger improvements than … facilitation, and more months with at least one practice facilitation visit, were associated with larger improvements

10. For World Patient Safety Day 2023, AHRQ Recognizes the Imperative of Engaging Patients in Their Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - patients are engaged as partners in their care rather than passive participants, it can lead to measurable improvements … caregivers, and health professionals work together as members of a cohesive healthcare team that can promote improvements

11. Developing Innovative Simulation-Based Training to Improve Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - He said, “My goal was to make usability improvements within the EHR that could enhance providers’ ability … project, which ended in 2022, concluded that neurofeedback is a promising tool to sustain performance improvements

12. Implementation Guide for AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice - Training Modules (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2017 - Are you the head of a department or unit and want to make improvements to informed consent? … r Will hospital leadership support the training and improvements? … r Does your hospital have the necessary infrastructure to monitor improvements? … Consider prioritizing the improvements, starting with one strategy. … That will let the hospital make improvements.

13. Using CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - Group Survey to determine where primary and specialty care organizations are performing well and where improvements … Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, reward physician practices and groups that have demonstrated improvements

14. How PSOs Help Health Care Organizations Improve Patient Safety Culture (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2016 - Moreover, improving patient safety culture can potentially lead to improvements not only in safety, … reporting of safety events is one factor that leads to a positive safety culture, which in turn leads to improvements … collaborative opportunities that can support health care organizations as they seek to achieve further improvements … The mutual collaboration and support that PSOs offer to their members can lead to improvements in patient … PSO-led improvements in patient safety culture encourage physicians and staff to be more transparent

15. Policy Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - The project goal is to facilitate and guide improvements in this process. … Their report will include questions to address and suggestions for process improvements in a future,

16. Enhancing Healthcare Quality for Hospitalized Children | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Additionally, she identified hospital site characteristics associated with improvements in pediatric … Her study also found that improvements in clinician compliance with evidence-based guidelines was significantly

17. National Action Alliance: Webinars | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Webinar speakers will discuss strategies for achieving 50 percent improvements in preventable harm to

18. Human Resources Issues (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - pivotal role in helping managers clarify and change and raise expectations when there are quality improvements … and so that they will help their teams speak the truth about quality and work together on achieving improvements … So HR needs to initiate performance-based recognition and ideally pay and/or incentives for improvements … And employee engagement is a prerequisite to teams sharing responsibility for making process improvements … with department teams in departmental QI initiatives to identify ways HR can help with hardwiring improvements

19. Module 6: Sustainability: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Anticipating financial resources needed to maintain improvements after the project ends allows you to … Show relevant data and share project experiences and stories with staff that illustrate improvements. … Also, allow staff time away from normal duties to work on project improvements. … Ask: In what ways does your facility sustain improvements? … What strategies could your facility use to sustain improvements moving forward?

20. Action Planning Worksheets | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - It states your goal for improvements in your staff's team performance. … The clinical outcome aim is your goal for improvements in clinical results due to improved team performance … Effectiveness can be monitored over time for continuous improvements.   Feasible Costs. … intervention, for sustainment of positive changes, and for identification of opportunities for further improvements