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41. Advancing Heart Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - As a result, many primary care practices struggle to adopt evidence-based practices to prevent and manage … Learn how external QI support helps these practices improve workflow and patient health. … In almost every Cooperative, practices with lower baseline QI capacity made larger improvements than … practices that started with higher capacity. … Independent, physician-owned practices are often more adaptable than those in larger systems.

42. Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2022 - Develop and Improve Stewardship Program Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing Best Practices … stewardship program, creating a safety culture around antibiotic prescribing, and ​disseminating best practices … Learning and disseminating best practices for the diagnosis and treatment of common infectious disease … safety around antibiotic prescribing Develop and improve your stewardship program Learn best practices … you review the content in “Develop a culture of safety around antibiotic prescribing,” “Learn best practices

43. Quality Improvement in Primary Care: External Supports for Practices (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2014 - important for primary care practices? … , lessons learned, and best practices and draw motivation and inspiration. … What types of organizations provide QI support to primary care practices? … • Supports practices in identifying and achieving improvement goals; helps practices prioritize and … reaching many practices at once

44. Achievements in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/stories/achievements.html
    March 01, 2021 - Tools for Change Achievements in Primary Care Ten EvidenceNOW Practices … Champions The Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge is a competition to identify clinicians, practices … Million Hearts ® Hypertension Control Champions and the ten participating EvidenceNOW primary care practices … Springs, CO) High Plains Community Health Center Holly Clinic (Holy, CO)   Helping primary care practices … Learn more about how EvidenceNOW is working with primary care practices to improve quality of care and

45. Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - How do we sustain the redesigned prevention practices? 7. … 3.1 What bundle of best practices do we use?     … 3.7 Checklist for best practices 4. How do we implement best practices in our organization?     … 4.3 How do we put the new practices into operation?     … 4.4 Checklist for implementing best practices 5.

46. Module 28: Using the AHRQ Care Model Toolkit with Practices (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2015 - Use the toolkit to support improvement work with practices. … Practices are expected to go through four phases for a total of 12 key changes. …  Share parts of the toolkit with practices when working on those key changes. …  Train the practices to use the toolkit as a resource. … Test the links in the toolkit before you ask practices to use them.

47. EvidenceNOW Infographics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - program improvements in delivery of heart health and quality improvement in participating primary care practices … Practice Facilitators  (PDF, 544 KB) AHRQ's EvidenceNOW: A Snaphot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices … Target for Improving Heart Health in America (PDF, 575 KB) A Snapshot of Participating Primary Care Practices …  (PDF, 838 KB) Increased Capacity for Quality Improvement in Small Primary Care Practices  (PDF, 662

48. Comparison Tables for Making Healthcare Safer Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - The inaugural report consisted of 50 patient safety practices in eight categories encompassing commonly … That report added new evidence-based safety practices while updating some practices with new evidence … , and contained a total of 41 patient safety practices.   … Taken together, the reports cover a wide range of patient safety practices. … Methodologically, the practices (or PSPs) are similar but not identical.

49. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 17, 2016 - Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators … How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 1 Tool D.4y Selected Best Practices and Suggestions … ○ Determines appropriate facility resources for effective and permanent adoption of practices. … : ○ General infection prevention practices, such as hand hygiene and appropriate glove use, along … ○ Follow appropriate dressing assessment and replacement according to best practices specific to

50. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 20, 2016 - Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators … How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 1 Tool D.4g Selected Best Practices and Suggestions … problems with guidelines compliance, identifies opportunities for improvement, and communicates best practices … o Determines appropriate facility resources for effective and permanent adoption of practices. … c=Page&pagename=QnetPublic/Page/QnetTier3&cid=1138900298473 Selected Best Practices and Suggestions

51. Fillable Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) Tool for Health Care Quality Improvement (QI) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - Quality Improvement (QI) Resource: Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) Form  (PDF, 971 KB, 2 pages) Practices … Using this form can be helpful to primary care practices following the Model for Improvement quality … PDSA cycles are part of the Model for Improvement, a QI approach practices can adopt to address Key

52. Module 3: Best Practices in Fall Prevention—Training Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - : Which fall prevention practices to use. … Customized Tool 3P: Best Practices Checklist. … best practices and how to determine which fall prevention practices you want to use in your hospital … to include in your bundle of best practices. … Customized Tool 3P: Best Practices Purpose: to be used to monitor progress on identifying best practices

53. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2012 - Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators … How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 1 Tool D.4b Selected Best Practices and Suggestions … o Determines appropriate facility resources for effective and permanent adoption of practices. … Recommended practices for prevention of retained surgical items. … In: Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices.

54. Sustaining Fall Prevention Practices at Your Hospital (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Sustaining Fall Prevention Practices at Your Hospital Sustaining Fall Prevention Practices at Your … • Who will sustain these practices? • Support needed to sustain these practices. … • Practices may become harder to perform. … • Who will sustain these practices? • Support needed to sustain these practices. … Practices Who Will Sustain Practices?

55. Module 3: Best Practices in Fall Prevention (doc file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Module 3: Best Practices in Fall Prevention Module 3: Best Practices in Fall Prevention Module Aim … best practices and how to determine which fall prevention practices you want to use in your hospital … to include in your bundle of best practices. … practices in fall prevention Practice Who is responsible? … Customize the set of practices for specific work units.

56. Educational Bundles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2019 - and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities Educational bundles provide evidence-based prevention practices … The module highlights basic hand hygiene principles and best practices to reinforce with frontline staff … bacterial and viral infections, and how to educate and engage staff in proper cleaning and disinfection practices … personal protective equipment (PPE), and strategies to engage facility staff in using evidence-based practices … activity, including a role play, is included to practice communication skills surrounding urine culturing practices

57. EvidenceNOW: Northwest Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/northwest.html
    March 01, 2021 - The goal of this initiative is to ensure that primary care practices have the evidence they need to help … Reach Number of Participating Practices: 209 Location 45 percent urban 18 percent rural 36 … This support enhances the practices' capacity to use new PCOR findings to change their care practices … Practices randomized to the educational outreach intervention learned about team-based implementation … Healthy Hearts Northwest has, however, provided a 'North Star' for many practices.

58. Module 5: How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices—Training Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - How do you measure fall prevention practices? … Action Plan Tool To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices. … How do you measure fall prevention practices? … let’s focus on a couple of practices to begin. … How to measure fall prevention practices.

59. AHRQ Practice Facilitation Training Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - AHRQ Practice Facilitation Training Modules Practice facilitators help primary care practices … Helping Practices Scale Improvements . Joy in Work .   … listen actively; ask powerful questions; become a “professional pesterer;” and curate resources for practices … Helping Practices Scale up Improvements – Learn how to support change throughout a practice by designing … Access additional resources and a table of contents for Helping Practices Scale up Improvements.

60. EvidenceNOW: Virginia Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/virginia.html
    March 01, 2021 - Increase practices' capacity to integrate new PCOR findings on an ongoing basis. … can find and share announcements, ideas, insights, and promising practices. … Update Virginia recruited 240 practices, 208 of which are still active. … It currently has collected data on the ABCS measures from 124 practices. … that practices could run their own data reports.