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5121. Strategy 4: Care Transitions From Hospital to Home: IDEAL Discharge Planning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/patients-families/engagingfamilies/strategy4/index.html
      December 01, 2017 - Strategy 4: Care Transitions From Hospital to Home: IDEAL Discharge Planning Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable improvements in safety and quality. To promote stronger engagement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality developed the Guide to Patient…

5122. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/patients-families/engagingfamilies/strategy2/index.html
      December 01, 2017 - Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable improvements in safety and quality. To promote stronger engagement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality developed the Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospit…

5123. Observing Patient Care Rounds | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/observing-rounds.html
      December 01, 2012 - Observing Patient Care Rounds CUSP Toolkit Communication among disciplines can be improved if viewed through the eyes of an objective observer. Problem statement: Interdisciplinary rounds are in the best interest of patients. Poor communication among staff is a root cause of many patient adverse and sentin…

5124. Main Line Health System Uses Patient Safety Culture Survey in Suburban Philadelphia Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2012 - Main Line Health System Uses Patient Safety Culture Survey in Suburban Philadelphia Facilities Search All Impact Case Studies December 2012 Main Line Health System (MLH) in suburban Philadelphia has used AHRQ's "Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture" since 2009 in an ongoing effort to embed a reliable c…

5125. Table 5. Summary of the Effect of Feedback from Screening on Patient Outcomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2013 - Table 5. Summary of the Effect of Feedback from Screening on Patient Outcomes Screening for Depression in Adults: Summary of the Evidence The summaries of the evidence briefly present evidence of effectiveness for preventive health services used in primary care clinical settings, including screening tests, co…

5126. Appendix 9: Back to Basics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2018 - Appendix 9: Back to Basics Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections These tools will help your unit implement evidence-based practices and eliminate central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI). When used with the CUSP (Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program) Toolkit, th…

5127. Module 3: Staff Empowerment: Material Use Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module3/guide.html
      March 01, 2017 - Module 3: Staff Empowerment: Material Use Guide AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI Learning Objectives: Cite staff empowerment concepts. Discuss how staff empowerment contributes to a culture of resident safety, leading to improved outcomes and quality of life. Illustrate t…

5128. AHRQ National Advisory Council To Meet in Baltimore on June 28-29 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2024 - AHRQ National Advisory Council To Meet in Baltimore on June 28-29 Press Release Date: June 11, 2024 The National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will convene in person in Baltimore, MD, on Friday, June 28, at 1:45 p.m. E.T. and Saturday, June 29, at 9 a.m. E.T. The counc…

5129. New Jersey Hospital Uses AHRQ Toolkit To Reduce Urinary Tract Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2017 - New Jersey Hospital Uses AHRQ Toolkit To Reduce Urinary Tract Infections Search All Impact Case Studies March 2017 Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, New Jersey, used AHRQ’s " Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals " to increase staff knowledge about catheter-associated urinary tract infectio…

5130. Longitudinal Evaluation of the Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform Demonstration Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/candor-demo-program/candor/demo-program/index.html
      August 01, 2022 - Longitudinal Evaluation of the Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform Demonstration Program Select for: Planning Grant Evaluation Report ( PDF , 715 KB) Demonstration Grant Evaluation Report ( PDF , 928 KB) On September 9, 2009, President Obama directed the Secretary of the U.S. Department of H…

5131. Clinical Decision Support | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2024 - Clinical Decision Support Clinical decision support provides timely information, usually at the point of care, to help inform decisions about a patient's care. Clinical decision support can effectively improve patient outcomes and lead to higher-quality health care. Clinical decision support (CDS) provides ti…

5132. Impact of Disparities and Lack of Equity on Patient Engagement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patient-role3.html
      September 01, 2024 - The Patient’s Role in Diagnostic Safety and Excellence: From Passive Reception Toward Co-Design Impact of Disparities and Lack of Equity on Patient Engagement Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents The Patient’s Role in Diagnostic Safety and Excellence: From Passive Reception Toward Co-Design …

5133. Los Angeles County Health Center Uses CAHPS To Shorten Wait Times | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - Los Angeles County Health Center Uses CAHPS To Shorten Wait Times Search All Impact Case Studies April 2018 Feedback from patients on AHRQ's Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Clinician & Group Survey (CG-CAHPS) told officials at San Fernando, CA-based Northeast Valley Health Corporat…

5134. A Summary of the First Annual Workshop of AHRQ’s Comparative Health System Performance Initiative (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/coe-workshopissuebrief.pdf
      January 11, 2017 - that tax identification numbers, or TINs, would be the main linking variable to other datasets to measure … Given that the purpose of identifying health systems in secondary data sources is to ultimately measure

5135. AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture: User’s Guide (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/asc/asc-user-guide.pdf
      July 01, 2018 - by shared perceptions of the importance of safety, and by confidence in the efficacy of preventive measures … Westat then developed draft survey items to measure key composites and conducted cognitive interviews … There are 27 survey items grouped into 8 composite measures, or composites. … The midpoints of the scales can be reported as a separate category (Neither agree nor disagree or Sometimes … Patient Safety Culture are grouped according to the safety culture composites they are intended to measure

5136. Final Progress Report: Problem Density, Workload, and Medical Error in Primary Care Practice: a WREN Study (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/temte-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Encounter problem density in primary care: a better measure of complexity? … as physician estimated likelihood of possible omission and/or error were recorded on 7-point Likert scales … mental demand, physical demand, time demand, performance, effort, and frustration level, that reliably measures

5137. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 29: Implementing Care Teams (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-29-implementing-care-teams.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - Set up performance measures to monitor the care team’s effectiveness (see Module 13 on performance measurement

5138. 10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2018 - Measure your hospital's patient safety culture.

5139. Final Progress Report: MOVES: Patient-Based Strategy To Reduce Errors in Diabetes Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/oconnor-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - be considered a nested (patients within physicians) cohort design due to the presence of repeated measures … and (b) an analysis of post-intervention data with regression adjustment for the pre-intervention measure … and there was no evidence of differences across intervention groups in any of the pre-intervention measures … For some measures, tailored feedback of error information to physicians or patients had the unintended

5140. Imbedding Research in Practice to Improve Medication Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Raebel_53.pdf
      May 07, 2008 - The primary outcome measure for each project was the incidence of medication errors, defined as the … Kaiser Permanente Colorado improving medication safety program Project Outcome measure (direction … Kaiser Permanente Colorado improving medication safety program (continued) Project Outcome measure