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461. AHRQ’s RED Toolkit Helps VA Hospitals in California and Texas Lower Readmissions, Improve Discharge Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201512.html
     May 01, 2015 - "There have been notable improvements in the discharge process over the first six months of implementation

462. Overview of the National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/overview/index.html
     October 01, 2024 - They can then drive improvements in those safety areas within their organization by using the National

463. How Will You Manage a Health Care Quality Reporting Project? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/manage.html
     November 01, 2018 - quality data in Rhode Island, for example, researchers found that the hospitals used the data to make improvements

464. How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children's health quality? Evaluation Highlight #13 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight13.pdf
     September 08, 2015 - These States implemented learning collaboratives and subsequently reported quantifiable improvements … We also report on quantitative improvements realized by practices by mid-2014 based on self-reported … semi-annual progress reports and other documents provided by the States to illustrate quantifiable improvements … Learning collaboratives taught how to test improvements and measure progress Learning collaboratives … Conclusions The States included in this Highlight reported measurable improvements in medical home

465. Diagnostic Safety as a Challenge for Healthcare Leadership | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/leadership-1.html
     June 01, 2021 - How Can Leaders Drive Improvements in Diagnostic Safety?

466. Six Building Blocks How-To-Implement Toolkit: Design and Implement Guide (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/6bb-toolkit-design.pdf
     February 18, 2021 - While anyone can use these materials to implement improvements in chronic pain and opioid medication … • To ensure the changes they are making are improvements, clinics track and assess success measures … Clinicians and staff also take time to celebrate improvements. … The three basic elements of measuring success are outcome measures, process improvements, and small … process improvements.

467. Job Aid: Joy in Work (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-joy-in-work.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - improvement aims, measurement criteria, and use Plan Do Study Act cycles to evaluate the impact of improvements

468. QAPI Leadership Rounding Guide (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/resources/qapi-leadership-rounding-guide-centers-for-medicare.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Current data or description of performance: Improvements made to-date: BARRIERS/ISSUES ALREADY KNOWN

469. Strategy 1: Working with Patients & Families as Advisors (Tool 12) (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy1/Strat1_Tool_12_WkWthAdv_HO_508.docx
     June 02, 2025 - illustrate what we do well and highlight where changes may be needed Help us develop priorities and make improvements

470. New Dashboard to Track Progress Toward 50 Percent Reduction in Patient and Workforce Harm | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/new-national-healthcare-safety-dashboard.html
     December 01, 2024 - for recruitment, peer group learning activities and funding opportunities supporting targeted safety improvements

471. Newman Memorial Hospital Implements AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips1301.html
     November 01, 2012 - Reporting improvements to the board of directors.

472. Supplement to Evaluation Highlight No. 13 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/supplhighlight13.html
     June 01, 2015 - These States implemented learning collaboratives and subsequently reported quantifiable improvements

473. Culture Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/cauti-interim/cauti-interim4b.html
     July 01, 2013 - While HSOPS is a validated survey looking at hospital safety improvements both before and after intervention

474. A. Acronyms and Abbreviations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldataapa.html
     May 01, 2018 - Medi-Cal Eligibility Data System MEPS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MIPPA Medicare Improvements

475. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/obtoolkitref.html
     March 01, 2014 - It takes two: using coleaders to champion improvements in small primary care practices.

476. Expanding and Enhancing All Payer Claims Database System Capacity in States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/confrpt.html
     February 01, 2018 - The second panel, "Innovative Uses of APCDs for Policy and Market Improvements," showcased a broad range … being used in some States to inform benefit design, identify disparities in care, and drive community improvements … Local improvements will be driven by data collected and used to solve each community's unique problems … 30-11:00 am Break 11:00-12:30 am Innovative Uses of APCD for Policy and Market Improvements

477. Learn About CUSP, Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/learn/fac-cusp.html
     December 01, 2012 - Is there a formal process to track safety-related improvements? … Physician champions Physician champions, who support teamwork and communication improvements and take … The CUSP implementation in the Michigan Keystone ICU Project was correlated with considerable improvements … CUSP implementation and the improvements in workplace culture that it brings also make technical improvements

478. 10-Year Experience Integrating Strategic Performance Improvement Initiatives: Can the Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma®, and Team Training All Thrive in a Single Hospital? (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Meliones_40.pdf
     January 01, 2006 - diagrams and others that necessitated complex multivariate analyses, yet all led to substantive process improvements … 5 Results Balanced Scorecard In the “Quality and Patient Safety” perspective, several improvements … adverse drug events, a 38 percent increase in discharge efficiency, and significant percentile ranking improvements … This focus on Team Training and the associated process improvements have resulted in significantly improved … Despite all these impediments, Team Training can result in significant improvements in health care,

479. Building an Engaged CUSP Team Facilitator Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/cusp-team-notes.docx
     April 01, 2022 - Building the CUSP Team 13 Facilitator Guide Slide Number and Image CUSP is a method that combines improvements … implementation of CUSP in the mid-2000s in the Michigan Keystone ICU Project was correlated with considerable improvements … States that started with low CLABSI rates achieved additional improvements, again demonstrating that … lead with a support system when things are challenging and the team is trying to maintain and sustain improvements

480. When It Comes to High-Quality Healthcare, Diagnostic Safety Tops the List | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/diagnostic-safety-tops-the-list.html
     March 01, 2024 - health information technology; identification, analysis, and reduction of diagnostic errors; work system improvements