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61. State-Based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives To Accelerate Implementation of Actionable Knowledge into Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/pcor/healthcare-extension-services/cooperative.html
    February 01, 2025 - barriers to better care and identify facilitators to implement patient-centered healthcare delivery improvements … and research organizations to build their capacity to implement patient-centered healthcare delivery improvements … monitor the formation and functioning of the Healthcare Extension Cooperative, providing feedback on improvements

62. Implementing a robust process improvement program in the neonatal intensive care unit to reduce harm. | PSNet
    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/implementing-robust-process-improvement-program-neonatal-intensive-care-unit-reduce-harm
    March 23, 2022 - dissemination of process improvement tools to support staff skill development and identify sustainable improvements … The program resulted in significant and sustainable improvements to staff confidence and knowledge related … It also contributed to improvements in health outcomes, including healthcare-acquired infection. … A handoff protocol from the cardiovascular operating room to cardiac ICU is associated with improvements

63. Event Reporting and Learning System Leads to Improvements in Patient Safety Culture (Webcast) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/unc-improvement-stories/index.html
    February 01, 2024 - Home SOPS® SOPS Webcasts Event Reporting and Learning System Leads to Improvements … International Users Contact SOPS Event Reporting and Learning System Leads to Improvements … University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Implementation of an Event Reporting and Learning System Leads to Improvements … www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CJeMuRmkZoE Implementation of an Event Reporting and Learning System Leads to Improvements … created November 2019 Internet Citation: Event Reporting and Learning System Leads to Improvements

64. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37788/psn-pdf
    May 28, 2008 - Durable improvements in efficiency, safety, and satisfaction in the operating room. … Durable improvements in efficiency, safety, and satisfaction in the operating room. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/durable-improvements-efficiency-safety-and-satisfaction-operating-room … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/durable-improvements-efficiency-safety-and-satisfaction-operating-room https

65. 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

66. Implementation of an Event Reporting and Learning System Leads to Improvements in Patient Safety Culture at UNC Medical Center-Ginsberg (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/2-unc-webcast-ginsberg.pdf
    January 08, 2020 - Implementation of an Event Reporting and Learning System Leads to Improvements in Patient Safety Culture … HAIs, reduce antibiotic resistance • Build capacity in the health care system to accelerate safety improvements

67. Medical Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder — An Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/asd-medical/research-2017
    January 01, 2021 - Key Messages Despite many randomized trials, confidence in reported improvements (strength of evidence … to placebo, seven studies addressing risperidone or aripiprazole reported statistically significant improvements … N-acetylcysteine and tetrahydrobiopterin were not associated with improvements in social skills and symptom … Methylphenidate and atomoxetine were also associated with improvements in hyperactivity in small short-term … RCTs (low SOE), with improvements maintained over 6 months for atomoxetine (low SOE for longer term

68. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42862/psn-pdf
    January 15, 2014 - VA Health Care: Improvements Needed in Processes Used to Address Providers' Actions That Contribute … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/va-health-care-improvements-needed-processes-used-address-providers- actions-contribute … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/va-health-care-improvements-needed-processes-used-address-providers-actions-contribute … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/va-health-care-improvements-needed-processes-used-address-providers-actions-contribute

69. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867676/psn-pdf
    February 26, 2025 - facts, results of the root cause analysis and other investigations into the adverse event, and any improvements … A necessary next step is identifying and implementing system-level improvements to address latent errors … data and dashboards to monitor, compare, benchmark, and evaluate patient safety trends helps sustain improvements … went well are identified and used to standardize and scale up best practices, can promote sustainable improvements … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/strategies-and-approaches-tracking-improvements-patient-safety https:/

70. Patient Safety Information for Providers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - thromboembolism (VTE) Patient health literacy and communication Patient-centered care Provider Focused Improvements … communication among providers Physician's role in medication reconciliation Hospital Focused Improvements … to patient-centered care Roadmap to providing patient-centered care Top   Provider Focused Improvements … medication reconciliation Use this list of commonly confused drug names Top Hospital Focused Improvements

71. Appendix 4: Samples Tables and Analyses for Pharmacy Staff Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/pharmacy/guide/app-4.html
    September 01, 2020 - something our pharmacy is not doing. 10 20% Our pharmacy is doing this but could make some improvements … something our pharmacy is not doing. 8 16% Our pharmacy is doing this but could make some improvements … something our pharmacy is not doing. 38 76% Our pharmacy is doing this but could make some improvements … This is something our pharmacy is not doing (%) Our pharmacy is doing this but could make some improvements

72. 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?

73. Pay-for-performance and patient safety in acute care: a systematic review. | PSNet
    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pay-performance-and-patient-safety-acute-care-systematic-review
    October 09, 2024 - The researchers found that half of the included studies did not identify improvements in adverse event … rates after P4P, and that studies reporting improvements were of poor methodological quality. … December 16, 2014 Durable improvements in efficiency, safety, and satisfaction in the

74. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States using quality reports to drive heatlh care improvements for children? Evaluation Highlight No. 11 (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight11.pdf
    September 08, 2015 - How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States using quality reports to drive heatlh care improvements for … How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States using quality reports to drive health care improvements … Similarly, North Carolina made modest but meaningful improvements in most of the areas it focused … It is likely that these improvements represent both an increase in the provision of needed services … Conclusion The six States’ experience with using reports to drive improvements in the quality of

75. 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
    September 03, 2024 - 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

76. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/836916/psn-pdf
    April 13, 2022 - dissemination of process improvement tools to support staff skill development and identify sustainable improvements … The program resulted in significant and sustainable improvements to staff confidence and knowledge related … It also contributed to improvements in health outcomes, including healthcare-acquired infection.

77. 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

78. Assessing the Impact of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - there is no system-wide implementation date for any given service, making it difficult to tie outcome improvements … In addition, some improvements not seen may have been achieved prior to the study. … For instance, outcomes and preventive service delivery were found to have had significant improvements … However, many important outcomes, such as reduced mortality compared to peer population did not show improvements … , perhaps because the improvements occurred when the changes were made 10 years earlier.

79. Job Aid: Practice Assessments and Surveys (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-practice-assessments.pdf
    May 17, 2021 - 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.

80. Integrated and Comprehensive Pain Management Programs: Effectiveness and Harms | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/integrated-pain-management/research
    October 01, 2022 - Compared with usual care or waitlist, IPMPs were associated with small improvements in pain in the short … CPMPs were associated with small improvements in pain immediately postintervention (SOE: moderate) but … no differences in the short, intermediate, and long term (SOE: low); for function, improvements were … in function but no improvements in pain in the short term when compared with physical activity alone … IPMPs and CPMPs may provide small to moderate improvements in function and small improvements in pain