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401. For American Heart Month, AHRQ Offers New Tools for Expanding Cardiac Rehabilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - can improve heart health by counseling patients on aspirin use, focusing on blood pressure control, improving … resources to help primary care practices implement the best evidence for reducing cardiac risks and improving

402. Making Progress on Healthy People 2030 Health Literacy Objectives | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2021 - Improving health literacy is a goal in the United States and around the world. … principle and overarching goal of Healthy People 2030, which established three core objectives for improving

403. 2021: An AHRQ Year in Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2022 - Our AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use was evaluated in more than 400 acute care hospitals … We will continue to focus on advancing diagnostic safety, improving care for people with multiple chronic

404. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - Publication Date: July 2022 Publication Number: 22-0038 Improving Education—A … Brief #7: Substantial progress is being made in recognizing the need for diagnostic excellence, and improving

405. Research Centers for Excellence in Clinical Preventive Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2018 - understanding and addressing high rates of refusal of pneumococcal vaccination among African-Americans * , improving … understanding physicians' and patients' perceptions of harms and how these affect decisionmaking * , and improving

406. CAUTI-Related Data Collection Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Toolkit CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving … Surgical Care and Recovery Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process Mechanically Ventilated

407. CAHPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2024 - Surveys CAHPS Databases Webcasts & Recent Events Reporting Results to Consumers Improving … Coordination of care Health information technology Health literacy Health promotion & education   Improving

408. AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program: 20 Years of Innovation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - Patient safety is central to AHRQ’s mission of improving healthcare quality for all. … healthcare, AHRQ-funded researchers have pointed out that emerging technologies hold great promise in improving

409. E-Fetal-Monitoring Facguide (doc file)
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     May 01, 2017 - auscultation vs. continuous electronic monitoring) but rather will focus on strategies and approaches to improving … However, improving individual staff skills with respect to EFM interpretation may not be enough to reduce … interventions include EFM courses or certification as one component of a multicomponent approach to improving … medical staff credentialing and privileging processes specific to EFM use may be another strategy for improving

410. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Implementation Handbook) (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2011 - Planning Strategy ------------------------------------------------------- 8 What is the evidence for improving … Interested in improving transitions from hospital to home? … What is the evidence for improving discharge planning? … These case studies identified the following best practices, among others:3 • A focus on improving … Helpful Links For more information on other approaches to improving discharge, see the following

411. Potentially Preventable Readmissions: Conceptual Framework To Rethink the Role of Primary Care: Final Report (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2021 - Care Transitions Program (CCTP), primary care practices are implementing a range of strategies for improving … work within organizations bearing direct financial risk, and expenditures on interventions aimed at improving … Thus, in addition to identifying optimal primary care approaches for improving care transitions, it … the Role of Primary Care 8 Every key informant mentioned challenges primary care practices face in improving … The project provided a new lens with which to view the role of the primary care team in improving quality

412. Major Study Finds Significant National Patient Safety Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2022 - healthcare organizations have developed and implemented interventions and programs with the aim of improving … Partnership for Patients , and implemented payment programs and publicly reported outcomes all geared towards improving

413. Multiple Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - PSOs can help providers develop successful approaches to improving quality and reducing adverse outcomes … Created for clinicians by clinicians, the toolkit includes training tools to make care safer by improving

414. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - Toolkit CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving … Surgical Care and Recovery Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process Mechanically Ventilated

415. Patients With Limited English Proficiency | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2017 - Also select Improving Patient Safety Systems for Patients With Limited English Proficiency: A Guide … Return to Contents   Guides Improving Patient Safety Systems for Patients With Limited English

416. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Uses AHRQ Survey to Promote Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2017 - opportunities to discuss patient safety, and the results help shape our improvement efforts—ultimately improving … Jude prioritized improving patient handoffs and introduced the use of I-PASS.* An evidence-based technique

417. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2017 - This research is part of the Agency’s ongoing efforts to develop evidence-based information aimed at improving … the quality of the U.S. healthcare system by making care safer for patients and improving working conditions

418. Strategy 4: Care Transitions From Hospital to Home: IDEAL Discharge Planning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Families Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety Guide to Improving … [   Microsoft Word version - 511.84 KB     PDF version - 254.71 KB ] Improving Discharge

419. Module 1: Using the Comprehensive Long-Term Care Safety Modules: Applying Safety Principles: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Toolkit CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving … Surgical Care and Recovery Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process Mechanically Ventilated … Slide 8: Modules Users Say: The Toolkit provides educational support for staff interested in improving … Improving culture requires an understanding that culture is different from facility to facility. … addition to these tools, a number of LTC-specific resources offer excellent examples and support for improving

420. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Rapid Response for Perinatal Safety
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     October 01, 2017 - Perinatal Care Rapid Response Perinatal Safety Evidence for RRS Some evidence supports the use of RRS for improving … patient safety and outcomes, mainly for improving cardiac care.1,2 Most studies of RRS in the literature … Improving hospital systems for the care of women with major obstetric hemorrhage.