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1. Guide to Sustaining a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2017 - tools and links to resources is to provide long-term care (LTC) facilities with an approach to sustain improvements … Too often, well-meaning staff and clinical teams undertake patient safety projects, achieve improvements … , and then fail to maintain those improvements over time. … To sustain the gains and continue to make improvements to safety culture, the AHRQ Nursing Home Survey … allowing staff to provide input to allow for some customization that is controlled and tied to the improvements

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Facilitator-Notes (doc file)
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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?

5. Training-Tools-Facnotes (doc file)
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   May 01, 2017 - Also, reserve staff time away from normal duties to work on proposed improvements. … ASK: In what ways does your facility sustain improvements? … What strategies could your facility use to sustain improvements moving forward? … ASK: In what ways does your facility sustain improvements? … ASK: In what ways does your facility sustain improvements?

6. 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.

7. Training-Tools-Material-Guide (doc file)
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   May 01, 2017 - · Slides 9-10 Planning Early for Sustainability · Slides 11-12 Barriers and Solutions to Sustaining Improvements … especially administrators, managers, and project leads Topic: Barriers and Solutions to Sustaining Improvements

8. 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

9. Multimethod Evaluation of Physician Group Incentive Programs for PCMH Transformation (pdf file)
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   April 01, 2015 - Incremental improvements in PCMH implementation would also yield positive effects on quality of care … Incremental improvements in PCMH implementation were not associated with cost savings for either population … Additionally, the PCMH transformation efforts led to improvements in the process and quality of patient

10. Sustainability Module: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2020 - Also, reserve staff time away from normal duties to work on proposed improvements. … Ask: In what ways does your facility sustain improvements? … What strategies could your facility use to sustain improvements moving forward? … Ask: In what ways does your facility sustain improvements? … Ask: In what ways does your facility sustain improvements?

11. Patient and Family Engagement in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2023 - Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable improvements … patients, families, and health professionals in primary care settings work together as partners to promote improvements

12. Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process (Page 1 of 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2020 - Start your implementation of improvements with small-scale demonstrations, which are easier to manage … Seek a feasible number of measures that address the most important aspects of the improvements you are … Small-scale tests of the interventions you wish to implement help refine improvements by incorporating … Resources on Sustaining and Spreading Improvements Massoud MR, Nielsen GA, Nolan K, Schall MW, Sevin … A Framework for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-Wide Change .

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Implementing Catheter Guidance to Improve Appropriate Use and Patient Outcomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2022 - The project aims to improve appropriateness of PICC use; evaluate whether these improvements are associated … If the results of this project show clear improvements, MAGIC potentially could change how clinicians

17. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Experiences from the Frontline (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2017 - Although all L&D units shared the same framework for safety improvements, each embarked on a unique … initiatives to help them make similar safety improvements … Based on the successes and visible improvements in the safety culture in L&D, the unit facilitators … The committee contributed to several safety improvements. … The Program also led to demonstrable improvements in staff engagement.

18. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Experiences from the Frontline (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2017 - Although all L&D units shared the same framework for safety improvements, each embarked on a unique … initiatives to help them make similar safety improvements … Based on the successes and visible improvements in the safety culture in L&D, the unit facilitators … The committee contributed to several safety improvements. … The Program also led to demonstrable improvements in staff engagement.

19. Webinar Transcript - The 2014 Quality and Disparities Report and the National Quality Strategy: Working Together to Improve Health Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2016 - And then at that point, we're really hoping that by our achieving improvements in these six areas, we … We see parallel lines, showing improvements but that simply means that at the end of the time period … Quality improvements in patient safety have saved 50 thousand lives and 12 billion dollars [Slide 27] … These are the things also that we're seeing improvements from the disparities perspective. … Over the years we can track that as we make improvements, slowly but surely.

20. 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