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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/voice-of-women.html
May 01, 2024 - It is essential for women to engage in healthy practices, access preventive care, and share their health … and needs as key to celebrating their voices—an essential part of ensuring high-quality, equitable care … evidence report explored how the healthcare community can effectively deliver respectful maternity care … a promising approach for improving disparities in maternal experiences in pregnancy and postpartum care … Embedding training on respectful maternity care practices in the toolkit sharpens the focus on reducing
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/index.html
October 01, 2022 - toolkits were developed based on the experiences of frontline clinical teams in hospitals, long-term care … Access the Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals . … The toolkit includes information for the acute care setting on building and maintaining an antibiotic … Long-Term Care Toolkit
Access the Toolkit to Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care . … Ambulatory Care Toolkit
Access the Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care .
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/vision/resources/vision4.html
October 01, 2002 - Chapter 4
Vision Rehabilitation: Care and Benefit Plan Models: Literature Review
Appendix … assessment across a variety of sites including inpatient, outpatient, and home care. … and less emphasis on custodial care. … delivery on acute care services. … care plans, and thereby provide disincentives for improving access to these services.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/interimhacrate2013_0.pdf
October 27, 2014 - from one care setting to another in order
to reduce readmissions. … Med Care 2009 Mar;47(3):364-9. … Fall prevention in acute care hospitals: a randomized trial. … Assessing quality in obstetrical care: development of standardized measures. … Temporal trends in rates of patient harm resulting from medical care.
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-gustafson.html
February 01, 2024 - healthcare, the more frustrated I became with the challenges that people go through to try to get good care … So, with a series of grants from AHRQ and its predecessors (the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research … before that, the National Center for Health Services Research and Development), he set out to improve care … employing systems analysis, decision science, and decision support technologies to address patient care … Grantee Since: 1968
Type of Grant: Various
Related AHRQ Resources
Advancing Patient-Centered Care
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/pichert.html
August 01, 2017 - Organizational values must deem patients to be valuable health care team members. … Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care, Vol. 2: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. … Obstetricians’ prior malpractice experience and patients’ satisfaction with care. … Med Care 2009; 47(5):553-9.
17. Cydulka RK, Tamayo-Sarver J, Gage A, et al. … Qual Saf Health Care 2006; 15:13-6.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool1ref.html
March 01, 2025 - Hospital readmissions as a measure of quality of health care: advantages and limitations. … Deficits in communication and information transfer between hospital-based and primary care physicians … : implications for patient safety and continuity of care. … The hospital discharge: a review of a care transition with a high potential for errors and highlights
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/asian-nhpi/asian-nhpi-chartbook.pdf
May 15, 2020 - in their care
• Care Coordination: Promoting effective communication and coordination of care
• Effective … Care Coordination was addressed
separately in the Chartbook on Care Coordination, available at https … and Care
Affordability. … Care
Affordability. … and Care
Affordability.
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/grant-mgmt/noncomp.html
November 01, 2015 - Noncompeting Application Requirements
Grant applications selected for funding by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are funded in annual increments known as "budget periods" based on the needs articulated in the competing application and as approved by the Agency. A small number of AHRQ grant…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/emergency-preparedness-plans.pdf
May 01, 2022 - preparedness staff; the state
licensing and certification agency; and the Office of the State Long-Term Care … Additional Resources
• Long Term Care Requirements – Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) … Guidance for Emergency Preparedness – Appendix PP of the State Operations Manual
Guidance to long-term care … • Sample Policy for Emergent Infectious Diseases for Skilled Nursing Care Centers
AHCA/NCAL guidance … for long-term care providers on how to prepare for infectious diseases that
have the potential to pose
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/icu-assessment.docx
April 01, 2022 - ICU Assessment
AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units: Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI
Date … staff □ Nursing support and/or engagement
□ Standardized processes to effect change □ Other direct care … staff □ Nursing support and/or engagement
□ Standardized processes to effect change □ Other direct care … audits for central line removal
O
O
O
Changing of transparent dressings and performance of site care … O
O
O
*Insertion of intravascular catheters to ensure proper aseptic technique
O
O
O
O
*Care
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/pay.html
November 01, 2018 - How Will You Pay for a Health Care Quality Report? … However, competitive forces and multiple demands in the health care industry are making some health plans
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2018-11-nac/nacmtg1118-minutes.html
April 01, 2019 - AHRQ is working to support the efforts to redirect incentives from volume of care to value-based care … to care. … Paying primary care physicians for performance appears not to have lasting effects on performance. … AHRQ’s focus is on care rather than cure. Dr. … This Agency brings the care perspective.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/execsumm-lean-redesign.docx
March 01, 2017 - and redesign care processes to enhance outcomes, particularly in fee-for-service ambulatory care settings … where the vast majority of health care is delivered. … The promise of Lean in health care. … Qual Manag Health Care 2010;19(3):211-25.
Cothran J. U.S. Health Care Spending: Who Pays? … Health Care Manage Rev 2016 Mar 2.
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/4-approach-qi-process/sect4part2.html
January 01, 2020 - ; and enhanced patient access to care. … , coordination of care, and care management of patients with chronic conditions. … Transforming Health Care. … Practice enhancement assistants improve quality of care in primary care practices . … Microsystems in health care: Part 4. Planning patient-centered care.
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/resources/case-studies.html
March 01, 2025 - Published Between 2016–2020 ChristianaCare Used AHRQ Resources to Reduce Blood Infections, Expedite Stroke Care … Speeds Patients’ Admitting Time from the Emergency Department After Using AHRQ Tools AHRQ Tools Improve Care … Tools to Improve Patient Safety AHRQ’s Medical Office Survey Helps Colorado Hospital Provide Better Care … Aurora Health Care Embraces AHRQ’s CUSP Method to Protect Patient Safety North Shore-LIJ Health System … University of Pittsburgh Uses AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Survey to Help Improve Nursing Home Care
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/personcentered/qdr2015-chartbook-personcenteredcare.pptx
September 01, 2016 - Person-Centered Care (n=18) Patient Safety (n=31) Healthy Living (n=58) Effective Treatment (n=37) Care … For 83% of person-centered care measures, people in poor households received worse care than people in … care
Engagement in decisionmaking
End-of-life care
13
Communication
Optimal health care requires … home health care are excluded. … home health care are excluded.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/impguide2.pdf
September 08, 2015 - • Frequency of care team
meetings.
• Composition of care
team.
• Quality of care plans. … • Providing intensive care
coordination.
• Providing intensive care
coordination. … The
Maryland care management model: care coordination using high-fidelity wraparound to
support the … Center for Health Care Strategies. … Center for Health Care Strategies. Case rate scan for care management entities.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/practice-profile-template.docx
April 02, 2025 - Name:
Behavioral health
Name:
Social work
Name:
Care
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/gabbay.html
October 01, 2015 - Transformational Elements
Comprehensive Care
Coordinated Care
Health Information Technology … launched a Chronic Care Initiative (CCI) that focused on improving the care of patients with chronic … they defined the role of care managers and how they incorporated them into the care team. … on care management; were better integrated into the care team through regular meetings and ongoing communication … with patients to develop and implement care plans.