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21. Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/e1_pdi_monitorprogress.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - 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

22. Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/e1_combo_monitorprogress.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - 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

23. Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/leadership.html
    July 01, 2021 - How Can Leaders Drive Improvements in Diagnostic Safety? … How Can Leaders Drive Improvements in Diagnostic Safety?

24. Job Aid: Practice Assessments and Surveys (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-practice-assessments.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - surveys are simple and non-threatening ways for a practice to gather information, generate ideas for improvements … , and test and monitor improvements. …  Evaluate improvements on the specific domains measured by the assessment. …  Monitor improvements over time. Creating a custom survey Step 1. Choose the topic.

25. Background | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/measure_retirement/measure_retirement2.html
    February 01, 2014 - identification of an initial CCS, CHIPRA required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to post improvements … The January 2013 improvements were informed by deliberations of a 2012 National Advisory Council on Healthcare … Quality Measures for Children’s Healthcare (SNAC). 4,5 The 2013 work was intended to contribute to improvements

26. Guide to Sustaining a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/sustainability/guide.html
    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

27. AHRQ’s Healthcare Extension Service, State-based Solutions to Healthcare Improvement (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pcor/logic-model-healthcare-extension-service.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - Co-develop healthcare extension services with stakeholders and identify locally appropriate and targeted improvements … stakeholders across multiple sectors to support improvement  Increased delivery of evidence-based improvements … refinement of improvement initiatives Outcomes  Increased national capacity for PCOR evidence- based improvements

28. Job Aid: “Last 10 Patients” Chart Audit (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-last10-patients-audit.pdf
    June 02, 2025 -  Generate ideas for improvements to reduce missed opportunities. …  Are the changes you are testing creating the desired improvements or do you need to make modifications …  Are improvements being maintained over time or is there backsliding?

29. How Are CAHPS® Survey Results Used? (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/primer-how-are-cahps-surveys-used.pdf
    January 01, 2021 - learned about improving patient experience Evaluating the use of a modified CAHPS® survey to support improvements … patient-centred care: lessons from a quality improvement collaborative Conclusion: Small measurable improvements … Evaluating the Use of a Modified CAHPS Survey to Support Improvements in Patient-Centered Care: Lessons

30. 1 (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/reports-and-case-studies/ExecSummcaseplancustsvce-RAND7607.pdf
    July 01, 2007 - The health plan made dramatic improvements in its customer service function. … It was clear that improvements should focus on the Member Services Department and on staff retention … • Set a goal to demonstrate customer service improvements in two consecutive quarters in 1999, … • Expected that its increased focus on customer service and some improvements in telephone service … • Continued to monitor CAHPS scores and other measures to make sure that improvements continued.

31. Six Building Blocks How-To-Implement Toolkit: Fast Track Approach Guide (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/6bb-toolkit-fasttrack.pdf
    January 12, 2021 - ............................................................................ 3 Plan and Implement Improvements … Plan and Implement Improvements When you are ready to work on these milestones, see the document Planned … Through implementing opioid management improvements using the Six Building Blocks, clinics become more … Plan and Implement Improvements When you are ready to work on these milestones, see the document Caring … Leadership reviews progress reports regularly and adjustments and improvements are implemented.

32. 6Bb-Toolkit-Fasttrack-Complete (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/6bb-toolkit-fasttrack-complete.pdf
    October 01, 2021 - While anyone can use these materials to implement improvements in opioid medication management, the … Reported improvements in work life included increased confidence and comfort in caring for patients … These improvements contributed to an overall reported decrease in stress among providers and staff. … Through implementing opioid management improvements using the Six Building Blocks, clinics become more … Leadership reviews progress reports regularly and adjustments and improvements are implemented.

33. Project Report - Lean Sigma (ppt file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/contentcalls/twomorees-slides/Two-More-Es-and-How-to-Spread-Dec-13-2011-508.ppt
    January 01, 2011 - How to Spread Learning Objectives To think ahead about ways to make your investment of time and improvements … sustainability in the Michigan Project Continued feedback of infection data that the team perceived as valid Improvements … Develop plan and targets for spread initiative Define specific goals of spread Define specific improvements … A Framework for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-Wide Change.

34. Developing State-Level Capacity for Dissemination and Implementation of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research into Primary Care (U18) (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/funding/fund-opps/state-level-cpcq.pdf
    December 01, 2019 - improvement are eager to learn from mistakes, create and train high-functioning teams, and integrate improvements … Deliberately designing care improvements in order to make clinician participation less work than before … Deliberately designing care improvements to make the care process more beneficial to the patient For

35. Lessons From Healthcare Organizations on Improving Patient Experience webcast-Ginsberg (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-lessons-ahrq-program.pdf
    November 01, 2006 - trademark. 10 What We Learned 20 Years Ago Evaluating the use of a modified CAHPS® survey to support improvements … patient-centred care: lessons from a quality improvement collaborative Conclusion: Small measurable improvements … Evaluating the Use of a Modified CAHPS Survey to Support Improvements in Patient-Centered Care: Lessons

36. Improving Patient Experience in Large Organizations webcast - Ginsberg (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/ipe-large-org-webcast-ginsberg.pdf
    November 01, 2006 - 10 What We Learned 20 Years Ago Evaluating the use of a modified CAHPS® survey to support improvements … patient-centred care: lessons from a quality improvement collaborative Conclusion: Small measurable improvements … Evaluating the Use of a Modified CAHPS Survey to Support Improvements in Patient-Centered Care: Lessons

37. Improving Patient Experience: Data Analysis Methods webcast - Ginsberg (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/data-analysis-webcast-program-2.pdf
    November 01, 2006 - trademark. 10 What We Learned 20 Years Ago Evaluating the use of a modified CAHPS® survey to support improvements … patient-centred care: lessons from a quality improvement collaborative Conclusion: Small measurable improvements … Evaluating the Use of a Modified CAHPS Survey to Support Improvements in Patient-Centered Care: Lessons

38. Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement Using CAHPS® Surveys: Summary of Presentations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/events/2020-meeting-summary.html
    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

39. ENSW FIELD NOTE FORM (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/intervention-tracking-notes-sw.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - level of confidence in this practice’s ability to make progress on important EvidenceNOW practice improvements … *Describe the most important improvements this practice made around cardiovascular care for its patients … *What do you think was the single most important barrier to progress or improvements in this practice … *Describe what you think helped most in making those improvements. 25. … [For example: workflow improvements on documentation of tobacco screening and follow up; PDSA on data

40. Two More E's and How to Spread | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/two-more/slides.html
    May 01, 2013 - Learning Objectives To think ahead about ways to make your investment of time and improvements … sustainability in the Michigan Project Continued feedback of infection data that the team perceived as valid Improvements …   Develop plan and targets for spread initiative  Define specific goals of spread Define specific improvements … A Framework for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-Wide Change.