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pbrn.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/index.html
December 01, 2023 - The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is a method that can help clinical teams … The Core CUSP toolkit gives clinical teams the training resources and tools to apply the CUSP method … How To Use the CUSP Method
A number of toolkits are available to help clinical teams adopt the CUSP … method to make care safer. … Most teams will want to start with the Core CUSP Toolkit to learn key principles of the CUSP method.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/precautions/tool5.html
April 01, 2024 - The teach-back and show-me methods are valuable tools for everyone in the practice to use with all patients … These methods can help you:
Improve patient understanding and adherence. … —Pediatric residency practice
Action
Learn the teach-back method. … Try the teach-back method.
Plan how you will ask non-shaming questions. … Use the show-me method.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/hai/clabsi-tools/index.html
March 01, 2023 - Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
About the CUSP Method … The Core CUSP Toolkit provides training materials and resources to help clinical teams learn a method … It provides specialized tools and resources to help clinical teams in ICUs apply the CUSP method to the
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/communication-material-guide.docx
May 01, 2017 - Topic: Communication and Teamwork Defined
Method: Present slides 4-11 in a meeting using the facilitator … Audience: All employees
Topic: Improving Surgical Team Communication With Debriefings and Briefings
Method … Materials: Slides 42-47, Example of Speaking Up audio, CUS technique
Audience: All employees in operating, procedure … , and recovery rooms
Topic: Closed-Loop Communication
Method: Present slides 48-51 in a team meeting … Materials: Slides 48-51, Example of Closed-Loop Communication audio
Audience: All employees in operating, procedure
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/summary/index.html
September 01, 2017 - Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
About the CUSP Method … Infections
Project Summary
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is a proven method … Assessment of safety culture and infection control policies and procedures. … infection rates in hospitals by 25 to 40 percent, depending on the type of surgery and surveillance method
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/hai/index.html
March 01, 2024 - Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
About the CUSP Method … the front lines of care faster by helping clinicians and staff better understand how to apply proven methods … Help clinicians apply proven methods to prevent HAIs. … Visit the CUSP Method for more information. … End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Facilities
This field-tested toolkit helps dialysis centers apply proven methods
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/assess/evaluation-plan.html
January 01, 2023 - collection method to use to answer your evaluation questions. … A plan and a method for analyzing the results. … A method to analyze the results of all your groups. … A method to analyze the results of all your interviews. … Something else that fits into your organization's "standard operating procedures?"
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/methods.html
December 01, 2017 - Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
About the CUSP Method … Decolonization – Universal and Targeted
Tools
Methods To Estimate … This document describes the methods AHRQ used to estimate the national rate of hospital-acquired conditions … As of April 2014, this method has been repeated for 2011, and for 2012 using preliminary data for the … last reviewed December 2017
Page originally created December 2016
Internet Citation: Methods
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/coordination/webinar01/fuzzysetsq-a.html
July 01, 2013 - Marcus's Answer: The methods brief we wrote for AHRQ is a good simple introduction to the method. … Also referring to the AHRQ methods brief and the growing number of published papers using the method … Marcus's Answer: I have tried to publish two papers using this method, both to HSR. … His papers are cited in the AHRQ Methods Brief. … There is extensive literature contrasting and comparing traditional statistical methods with QCA methods
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/hai/mrsa-prevention/index.html
November 01, 2023 - Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
About the CUSP Method … measurably decrease invasive MRSA infections using AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) method
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/instructor/essentials/implguide3.html
November 01, 2018 - Methods for data collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation. … on-going assessment of intervention effectiveness including measures and target ranges; data source; methods … Description of data collection methods.
… For Example :
Simplifies procedures and protocols. … Standardizes equipment, procedures, protocols.
Minimizes reliance on memory.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/coordination/pcmh-research-methods.html
June 01, 2014 - of methods to evaluate and refine PCMH models and other health care interventions. … Each of the briefs describes a PCMH method, outlines its advantages and limitations, and provides resources … for researchers to learn more about the method. … Select to access the PCMH Research Methods Series . … Select to view video: Webinar #5: Mixed Methods (Flash video, 1 hr, 17 sec.)
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/elicitation/index.html
December 01, 2023 - The goal of this work has been to develop a method for collecting patient narratives that is as scientifically … In testing the CAHPS Narrative Items, the CAHPS team used a relatively labor-intensive qualitative method … to analyze the narrative data collected. 2 This method worked well for initial testing, and a number … However, at a large scale, this method may prove too costly or cumbersome to administer in a way that … The CAHPS team’s method involved the development of a coding scheme for identifying key content domains
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/advanced-methods/index.html
December 01, 2017 - More topics in this section
Practice Improvement
Advanced Methods … PCMH Research Methods Series
Integrating Mixed Methods in Health Services and Delivery System Research … Services Research , sponsored by AHRQ, contains papers solicited and reviewed using the journal’s standard procedures … Papers address: research designs for achieving mixed methods integration; processes in mixed method research … teams; mixed methods analyses of care redesign and care delivery in diverse settings.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/mccannon/index.html
December 01, 2020 - More topics in this section
Practice Improvement
Advanced Methods … Slide 18
Method
Technical approach to scale up OR
"Lever mix".
Data collection. … Slide 19
Methods for Spread
Natural diffusion.
Breakthrough Series Collaborative model. … How will you spread your better practice (method)? … Experiment with new methods and technologies.
Test new forms of evaluation.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/Updated-hacreportFInal2017data.pdf
July 01, 2020 - infections, adverse drug events, and injuries due to procedures,
as well as pressure ulcers/pressure … between
the new method and the previous method is that the new method includes patient charts for most … the methods AHRQ developed to estimate the national rate of HACs
for 2014 to 2017. … is built on the 2010–2014 methods
but includes some changes. … on a modified version 4.1 of Patient Safety Indicators, modified to not use present
on admission or procedure
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/precautions/tool11d.html
March 01, 2024 - Communication Self-Assessment
Communication Observation Form
Plain Language Words
Use the Teach-Back Method … : Tool 5
The Teach-Back Method Poster
Teach-Back Questions for Informed Consent
Lab Results Letter … I understand:
I have the right to say not to any treatment or procedure.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/hacreport-2019.pdf
January 01, 2019 - infections, adverse drug events, and injuries due to
procedures, as well as pressure ulcers/pressure … between the new method and the previous method is that the new method includes patient charts
for most … All Other
Hospital-
Acquired
Conditions
MPSMS Femoral Artery Puncture for Catheter Angiographic Procedures … is built on the 2010–2014 methods
but includes some changes. … is based on NHSN data for 17 specific
operations: the 12 SCIP operations and 5 other major surgical procedures
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/estimating-costs-primary-care-transformation.pdf
July 31, 2015 - Exhibit 1 summarizes for each
method the purposes it serves, data required, possible analysis methods … The ABC method was used to calculate costs from the clinic’s perspective, while gross-
costing methods … 11
method, possible analysis methods, and key considerations. … visits per provider per year, adjusted for illness level); unique patients, patient
encounters, and procedures … Select and Apply a Cost Estimation Method
Gross-Costing Methods
ABC Method
Data Collection
Selection
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/assess/recommended-reading.html
May 01, 2019 - There are dozens of textbooks on evaluation research, and many textbooks on specific research methods … Qualitative research and evaluation methods. 3rd ed. … Internet, Mail and Mixed Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method. … Handbook of interview research: context and method. … Qualitative Data Analysis Methods
Miles MB, Huberman AM.