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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/policymakers/hrqa99b.html
October 01, 2014 - collaboration with experts from the public and private sector, the Agency shall identify and disseminate methods … or systems to assess health care research results, particularly methods or systems to rate the strength … The Agency shall make methods or systems for evidence rating widely available. … containing health care recommendations shall indicate the level of substantiating evidence using such methods … respect to paragraph (1), the role of the Agency shall include— (A) the identification and assessment of methods
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/cahps/about-cahps/cahps-program/index.html
April 01, 2023 - mandate the use of any CAHPS surveys or the use of any specific CAHPS sampling or survey administration methods … Survey methods research, including efforts to improve the effectiveness of survey administration methods
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/5-determining-focus/index.html
February 01, 2020 - Because some qualitative methods are easier and less expensive to implement than surveys, they can be … The CAHPS Database uses this method in one of the displays included in its online reporting system. … Assess Which Aspects of Patient Experience Are Most Important to Your Members or Patients
Another method … There are several methods for calculating correlations; the method that is recommended for CAHPS scores … is the Spearman correlation, but other methods may also be useful.
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/index.html
July 01, 2020 - Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
About the CUSP Method … Updated Information on the Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate: 2011 and 2012 ( PDF , 200 KB)
Methods … AHRQ awarded a contract in 2016 that developed methods and estimated the incremental inpatient financial
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/system/delivery-system-initiative/mccannon/mccannon.ppt
February 17, 2011 - How can change efforts introduce narrative methods in order to increase emotional engagement of prospective … patterns of behavior (centers of influence)
Rules base
Financing paradigms
Geography
*
*
Method … collection
Recursive evaluation
Knowledge management
Logistics/resource management
*
*
Methods … How will you spread your better practice (method)? … *
*
Major Hills to Take…
Build the field
Experiment with incentives
Experiment with new methods
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/cahps/bibliography/index.html?page=2
January 01, 2024 - Improvement
(113)
Racial and Ethnic Disparities
(75)
SEER-CAHPS
(9)
Statistical Techniques and Methods … Methods for Improving Response Rates in an Emergency Department Setting - A Randomized Feasibility Study … https://www.surveypractice.org/article/9651-methods-for -improving-response-rates-in-an-emergency-department-setting-a-randomized-feasibility-study … patient experience data on health systems' websites and commercial physician-rating websites: mixed-methods
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/cahps/bibliography/index.html?page=1
January 01, 2024 - Improvement
(113)
Racial and Ethnic Disparities
(75)
SEER-CAHPS
(9)
Statistical Techniques and Methods … What paradata can tell us beyond response rates: exploring device use and push-to-web access methods … article/77939-what-paradata-can-tell-us-beyond-response-rates-exploring-device-use-and-push-to-web-access-methods-in-a-survey-of-emergency-department-patients … Summary of the 2020 AHRQ research meeting on 'advancing methods of implementing and evaluating patient
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/4-approach-qi-process/sect4part2.html
January 01, 2020 - As you work with any QI method, the key is to carefully choose strategies that have the best chance to … The goal of this project was to apply innovative systems change methods to strengthen FQHC operations … It uses a set of quality management methods and creates a special infrastructure of people within the … organization who are experts in these methods ("Champions," "Black Belts," "Green Belts," "Yellow Belts … Training clinicians and staff in quality improvement methods.
Team building.
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/hai/patient-safety-resources/cli-checklist/index.html
February 01, 2024 - Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
About the CUSP Method … ____________
Unit _________________
Date/Time ____________
A minimum of 5 supervised successful procedures … for Procedure Deviation? … Completed for Procedure Deviation? … N/A for fluoroscopy procedures [ ]
After the procedure, did the operator:
Critical Steps
Yes
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/defining-diagnostic-error-a-scoping-review.pdf
April 27, 2022 - clinicians must constantly
balance diagnostic accuracy against judicious use of diagnostic tests
or procedures … without addressing diagnostic error
methods, including formal review methods (e.g., systematic • Articles … Additional work is needed to study how factors related to infor-
mation, timing, method, and behaviors … How family carers engage with
technical health procedures in the home: a grounded theory study. … Use of patient complaints to
identify diagnosis-related safety concerns: a mixed-method evaluation.
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/labor-delivery-unit/ldusafety-fac-guide.html
July 01, 2023 - It includes reviewing patient information, procedure, indications, anticipated complications, risk, medical … Resources for training staff to learn quantification methods are available. … Support implementation of unit procedure with—
Staff training and communication. … Pilot test any new procedures to work out any bugs or problems. … Create a mechanism for identifying recurrent nonuse or deviation from the established procedure by clinicians
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/2014FinalHACreport4Web-13Dec2016.pdf
December 01, 2016 - Results
The methods for this 2014 update on the rates and counts of HACs and associated costs and
deaths … The details of
these methods and the resulting data for the prior periods are online.1
Final estimates … Pressure Ulcers
1,010,000 30.9
Surgical Site
Infections
NHSN
(2014)
SSIs for 17 selected
procedures … .
10
http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/index.html#methods … Hospital-
Acquired
Conditions
MPSMS
(2014)
Femoral Artery
Puncture for Catheter
Angiographic
Procedures
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/cahps/about-cahps/cahps-program/cahps-VI.html
July 01, 2023 - Survey Methods Research
Survey methods research includes studies to evaluate different ways of collecting
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/how-to-use-bundles.html
March 01, 2017 - Access the following:
Methods of Instruction
Methods To Deploy Training
Tips for Implementing Interventions
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/funding/process/grant-app-basics/peerprob.html
October 01, 2014 - Proposed methods not appropriate to answer research questions. … Lack of generalizability of findings or methods.
Investigator lacks expertise in methodology.
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/hspc-research-study/abbreviations.html
June 01, 2020 - Preface
Summary
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Study Methods … ICs
Institutes and Centers
IHS
Indian Health Service
IOM
Institute of Medicine
MTD
methods
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/development-and-usability-testing-common-formats.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Methods: We recruited a purposive sample of quality and safety personnel
working in 8 U.S. healthcare … developed Common Formats using various qualitative and
quantitative methods.10–13 Qualitative methods … All procedures were approved by the institutional review board
at the coordinating institution and conducted … Procedure
All evaluation procedures were conducted remotely. … Partici-
pants completed all evaluation procedures, with the exception of
one who did not complete the
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-halamek.html
August 01, 2023 - The Optimizing Safety of Mother and Neonate in a Mixed-Methods Learning Laboratory brought together … aspects of neonatal resuscitation: the design of the physical workspace; decision making during this procedure … Halamek, NeoSim now serves as the basis for the simulation-based training and briefing and debriefing methods
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/es/programs/index.html?page=2
March 31, 2024 - Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HACs)
AHRQ’s patient safety research formed the foundation of the methods … reduce HACs and other adverse events in hospitals, frontline clinicians and others use many of the methods
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healthcare411.ahrq.gov/programs/index.html?page=2
April 28, 2024 - Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HACs)
AHRQ’s patient safety research formed the foundation of the methods … reduce HACs and other adverse events in hospitals, frontline clinicians and others use many of the methods