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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. Medicare Pay-for-Performance Programs Not Linked to Consistent Quality, Safety Improvements | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2022 - News Now Medicare Pay-for-Performance Programs Not Linked to Consistent Quality, Safety Improvements … Medicare Pay-for-Performance Programs Not Linked to Consistent Quality, Safety Improvements … Today's Headlines: Medicare Pay-for-Performance Programs Not Linked to Consistent Quality, Safety Improvements … Medicare Pay-for-Performance Programs Not Linked to Consistent Quality, Safety Improvements Medicare … Internet Citation: Medicare Pay-for-Performance Programs Not Linked to Consistent Quality, Safety Improvements

3. 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

4. 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.

5. AHRQ Views Blog: Asking the Hard Questions About Telehealth | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2021 - AHRQ Issue Brief Calls on Healthcare Leaders To Drive Improvements in Diagnostic Safety . … It is time to ask challenging questions and create the evidence to ensure that telehealth drives improvements … AHRQ Issue Brief Calls on Healthcare Leaders To Drive Improvements in Diagnostic Safety A new AHRQ … Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action , outlines strategies for healthcare leaders to drive improvements

6. 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

7. 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.

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. 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

10. Culture-Check-Uptool (doc file)
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    August 07, 2012 - This exercise will help you better understand your culture and consider interventions that lead to improvements … the Culture Item Discussion Form (next page) to document the issues that surface and any suggested improvements

11. EvidenceNOW: A Model for Heart Health and Beyond (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2021 -  In almost e very Cooperative, practices with lower baseline QI capacity made larger improvements … facilitation, and more months with at least one practice facilitation visit, were associated with larger improvements

12. EvidenceNOW: Ohio Cooperative (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2021 - Determine patient, provider, clinic, and other contextual factors associated with greater improvements … efectiveness of the heart healthy QIP overall and by subgroup; and (3) factors associated with greater improvements

13. 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?

14. 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 .

15. 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

16. Final Topic Refinement Document: Home Mechanical Ventilators (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2017 - What are the patient characteristics and/or laboratory criteria and/or target level measurable improvements … What are the patient characteristics and/or laboratory criteria and/or target level measurable improvements … What are the patient characteristics and/or laboratory criteria and/or target level measurable improvements … What are the patient characteristics and/or laboratory criteria and/or target level measurable improvements

17. AHRQ Views Blog Post: 2021—An AHRQ Year in Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2022 - The report identifies improvements in HIV and colon cancer care, nursing home care and medication prescribing … While Black, Hispanic and American Indian and Alaska Native communities have experienced substantial improvements … Even when rates of improvement in quality exceeded those experienced by White Americans, the improvements

18. 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

19. Information to Help Hospitals Get Started (doc file)
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    April 05, 2013 - and patient- and family-centered care policies helps you understand where your organization can make improvements … It also provides you with baseline data by which to assess improvements. … input from clinicians, hospital staff, patients, and families on experiences, ideas for changes and improvements … hospital’s strengths, areas for improvement, and ways in which the Guide strategies can contribute to improvements … (e.g., improvements in CAHPS Hospital Survey scores, decreases in length of stay, and reductions in

20. CAHPS Elicitation Protocol Webcast (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2017 - healthcare stakeholders and consumers  Earned trust of the MA physician community  Statewide care improvements … by large scale measurement and reporting initiatives  Infusion of the patient voice into care improvements