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cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/index.html
March 01, 2024 - It is intended for use by health care providers initiating FCR and/or operationalizing optimal practices … Hospitals is a toolkit that assists hospital staff in implementing effective pressure ulcer prevention practices … Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery
This toolkit helps hospitals implement evidence-based practices … culture of safety around antibiotic prescribing in your hospital, and learning and disseminating best practices … Using the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and other evidence-based practices, the toolkit
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cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/KeyDriver_onepager.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Diagram
The EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram shows six key drivers – big changes – that primary care practices … Seek and implement EvidenceImprove health care quality by
increasing the capacity of primary
care practices
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cahps.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/817.html
May 01, 2022 - Handbook Provides Tips for Primary Care Practices To Use Data To Improve Care . … Handbook Provides Tips for Primary Care Practices To Use Data To Improve Care
A new AHRQ handbook provides … Topics range from working with practices to use electronic health record (EHR) data in quality improvement … The handbook focuses on guiding coaches as they help primary care practices collect and extract high-quality … Cardiovascular disease preventive services among smaller primary care practices.
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cahps.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/803.html
March 01, 2022 - New Guide Available To Help Primary Care Practices Consider Patients’ Risk for Cardiovascular Disease … New Guide Available To Help Primary Care Practices Consider Patients’ Risk for Cardiovascular Disease … Calculators into Primary Care (PDF, 843 KB), is available to help practice facilitators and primary care practices … The top six: standardized safety practices in U.S. … Significant gains in rheumatoid arthritis quality measures among RISE Registry practices.
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cahps.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/852.html
February 01, 2023 - Studies Highlight Patient Experience Survey Best Practices and Their Use Among Patient-Centered Medical … people, expanding services provided, strengthening care coordination and the implementation of best practices … Studies Highlight Patient Experience Survey Best Practices and Their Use Among Patient-Centered Medical … While all aspiring practices were required to use some form of patient experience survey, over 70 percent … Adoption of patient-reported outcomes by health systems and physician practices in the USA.
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cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/assess/index.html
April 01, 2022 - strengths and opportunities for improvement in your intensive care unit’s (ICU) clinical and safety practices … complete it in collaboration with individuals who have strong knowledge of current clinical and safety practices
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cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/concepts-of-patient-safety.html
March 01, 2020 - Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices : … this report reviews 47 practices that target patient safety improvements in hospitals, primary care practices
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cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/standalone_pdi_casestudy.pdf
December 01, 2015 - Ready for Change Self-
Assessment (Tool A.3)
• Improvement Methods Overview
(Tool D.1)
• Best Practices … Two tools were critical to gaining physician support: Best Practices for Central Venous Catheter
(CVC … The
results of the gap analysis revealed the areas in which the hospital’s practices diverged from … recognized best practices. … colleagues are exploring how this approach could work in
other clinical areas and as a way to improve practices
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cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/guides/guide-infection-prevention.pdf
March 01, 2017 - Infection prevention and control practices help residents avoid getting infections from health care … These practices can also help prevent
health care workers from getting infections from residents. … BASIC BACKGROUND
Unsafe injection practices can lead to infections and even disease outbreaks. … , including hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, safe
injection practices, and appropriate antibiotic … These work practices
include—
▪ Offering the hepatitis B vaccine to any staff member who has the
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cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/access/cahps-section-6a.pdf
July 27, 2017 - Finally, medical practices often realize cost and efficiency savings. … Implementation of This Model
The literature on open access suggests that medical practices can implement … To facilitate this difficult task, practices may want to set a target date and agree
that visits will … Some practices rely on
mathematical models for predicting demand, with mixed success. … To do this, the
group may need to see more patients each day for 6 to 8 weeks.7 A study of practices
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cahps.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/4-approach-qi-process/index.html
January 01, 2020 - patient experience can face daunting challenges, reflecting the need to align changes in behavior and practices … Choose Specific Interventions To Implement
To decide which new ideas or benchmark practices to implement … Examine how and how much the new practices are affecting the delivery of patient-centered care. … But introducing and reinforcing changes in behavior that "stick" in the form of sustainable practices … Who do they follow when they have adopted new clinical or improvement practices?
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cahps.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-kaiser.html
July 01, 2022 - received an AHRQ Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award in 2016 to identify best practices … implementation to improve healthcare quality for children hospitalized with asthma and then test these practices … identified hospitals with significant quality gains after pathway implementation and found certain practices … She found these pathway implementation practices were feasible and effective in other hospitals as
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cahps.ahrq.gov/opioids/health-systems-research.html
July 01, 2021 - Increasing Access to MAT in Rural Primary Care Practices
AHRQ awarded funds to five Primary Care Medication-Assisted … Opioid Use Disorders Grantees through the initiative Increasing Access to MAT in Rural Primary Care Practices … for managing opioid use and misuse in older adults in primary care settings; to support primary care practices … This 3-year grant program aims to disseminate and implement into primary care practices evidence-based
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cahps.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/202105.html
November 01, 2021 - With eight hospitals and numerous health centers, physician practices, rehabilitation locations, and … substance use disorders in outpatient clinics and medications for opioid use disorder in primary care practices … Two practices are in isolated locations where they provide nearly all local medical services. … program has been designated by the State as a Center of Excellence, recognizing its leadership, best practices
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cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/aspirin-use-pcor.pdf
November 01, 2016 - The EvidenceNOW goal is to have at least 70 percent of eligible
patients cared for in primary care practices … Healthcare Research and Quality grant initiative dedicated to helping small- and
medium-sized primary care practices … ,
Blood pressure control, Cholesterol management, and Smoking cessation—while helping primary care practices
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cahps.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/about/index.html
December 01, 2023 - across the country to increase the implementation of evidence-based infection prevention and safety practices … Network provided free training and mentorship to U.S. nursing homes to enhance evidence-based safety practices
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cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage.html
October 01, 2021 - Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families (the Guide) is a resource to help primary care practices … The Guide is composed of materials and resources to help primary care practices implement patient and … Errors in diagnosis, breakdowns in communication, unsafe medication practices, and fragmentation of care
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cahps.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/od/david-meyers-memoriam.html
August 01, 2023 - as AHRQ’s first chief physician and directed EvidenceNOW , AHRQ’s initiative to help primary care practices … David Meyers: Selected Research
How Do Innovative Primary Care Practices Achieve the Quadruple Aim? … , Comprehensive Primary Care: a Mixed-Method Exploration of Staffing for Four Types of Primary Care Practices
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cahps.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/search.html
January 01, 2022 - The Network supported the implementation of evidence-based prevention and safety practices within nursing … additional COVID-19 vaccine doses, results from the August 13, 2021, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices … of observational audits which assist in identification of staff compliance with infection prevention practices … It provides a description and list of successful practices of high-performing nursing homes and includes … change journey to become aware of concrete changes that leading homes have made to their policies, practices
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cahps.ahrq.gov/es/nursing-home/resources/search.html
January 01, 2022 - The Network supported the implementation of evidence-based prevention and safety practices within nursing … additional COVID-19 vaccine doses, results from the August 13, 2021, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices … of observational audits which assist in identification of staff compliance with infection prevention practices … It provides a description and list of successful practices of high-performing nursing homes and includes … change journey to become aware of concrete changes that leading homes have made to their policies, practices