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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/best-practices-survey-administration-webcast-sorra.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Best Practices for Administering SOPS® Surveys Users (Webcast): Sorra Presentation
Best Practices for … infection-control-recommendations.html
This interim guidance provides recommendations on infection prevention and control (IPC)
practices … for routine healthcare delivery during the pandemic and recommended IPC practices
when caring for a … DatabasesOnSafetyCulture@westat.com
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2025-annual-report/quality-improvement.html
August 01, 2025 - implementing quality improvement (QI) in primary care requires disseminating the latest evidence to practices … Implements the approach across a large network of primary care practices, including large-scale screening … This project takes place in the largest health system in Illinois, with 65 primary care practices and … Participating practices receive practice facilitation support, training, and health information technology … Helped primary care practices implement evidence-based, nonsurgical treatments for urinary incontinence
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/bestpractices-web-sopssurveys-transcript.pdf
June 12, 2019 - SOPS™ Best Practices for Web-based SOPS Surveys Webcast Transcript
June 2019 https://www.ahrq.gov … /sops/index.html 1
Best Practices for Web-based SOPS Surveys
June 12, 2019 – Webcast Transcript … Then next, I'm going to describe best practices for
designing and testing a SOPS web-based survey. … It will
help you program and administer a web-based survey using the state-of-the-art best practices … I'm going to talk with
you about best practices in fielding your survey.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/best-practices-managing-deconditioning.pdf
May 01, 2022 - Best Practices for Identifying and Managing Deconditioning in Nursing Home Residents
Best … Practices for Identifying and Managing
Deconditioning in Nursing Home Residents
Throughout the COVID … FOR MORE INFORMATION
Additional resources, including “Best Practices to Help Nursing Home Residents
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/posters.html
June 01, 2021 - Best Practices Pocket Cards & Posters
The materials below are intended for health care practitioners
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/intramuscular-injections.pdf
June 01, 2021 - Intramuscular Injections – Best Practices for Safe Vaccine Administration in Nursing Homes … Intramuscular Injections
Best Practices for Safe Vaccine Administration in Nursing Homes
When vaccinating … Even
experienced vaccinators can benefit from a periodic review of best practices for giving IM injections … The following best practices align with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine … The CDC COVID-19
Vaccine Training Best Practices and Occupational
Safety and Health Administration
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/promoting-emotional-wellbeing.pdf
March 01, 2022 - Best Practices for Promoting Emotional Well-Being in Nursing Home Residents … Best Practices for Promoting Emotional Well-Being
in Nursing Home Residents
Efforts to slow the spread … engage
residents and reduce isolation while maintaining necessary infection control and prevention practices … 22-0016-2-EF
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/CDI-facilitator-guide.pdf
November 01, 2019 - Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections
AHRQ Safety … No. 17(20)-0028-EF
November 2019
Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of
Clostridioides … difficile Infections
Acute Care
Acute Slide Title and Commentary Slide Number and Slide
Best Practices … of Clostridioides difficile
Infections
Acute Care
SAY:
This presentation will address “Best Practices … In addition,
improvements in infection control practices occurred.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/VAP-facilitator-guide.pdf
November 01, 2019 - Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
AHRQ Safety … No. 17(20)-0028-EF
November 2019
Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment
of Ventilator-Associated … Pneumonia
Acute Care
Slide Title and Commentary Slide Number and Slide
Best Practices in the … Diagnosis and
Treatment of Ventilator-Associated
Pneumonia
SAY:
This presentation is titled “Best Practices … These practices are offered as
helpful options for consideration by health care
practitioners, not
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/education-bundles.html
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 … questions for core team members and all staff to review in preparation to discuss cleaning and disinfection practices … personal protective equipment (PPE), and strategies to engage facility staff in using evidence-based practices
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/about/evidencenow-factsheet.pdf
April 01, 2021 - The
multi-State initiative worked closely with 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices … Through the initiative, the practices received customized
support to improve the delivery of services … a comparison group
of practices. … improvements than
practices that started with higher capacity. … had higher
delivery of the heart health services
than other practices.”
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/evidencenow-factsheet.pdf
September 01, 2021 - The
multi-State initiative worked closely with 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices … LDL
HDL
Through the initiative, the practices received customized
support to improve the delivery … a comparison group
of practices. … improvements than
practices that started with higher capacity. … had higher
delivery of the heart health services
than other practices.”
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/vchip-strategies-for-kdd.pdf
February 01, 2015 - Strategies to Improve Asthma Care and Treatment in Primary Care Practices
Strategies to Improve Asthma … Care and Treatment in Primary Care Practices*
The following are strategies that healthcare professionals … and primary care practices used to improve office systems to address and
promote optimal asthma treatment … The type of interaction depends on their asthma
severity; management and control based on best practices
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/obesity-pcpresources.pdf
May 01, 2014 - Integrating Primary Care Practices and Community-based Resources to Manage Obesity
Integrating … Primary Care Practices and Community-based
Resources to Manage Obesity
A Bridge-building Toolkit … for Rural Primary Care Practices
Prepared for
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
540 Gaither … Managing and treating obesity is particularly challenging for primary care practices. … Bridging
primary care practices and communities to promote healthy behaviors.
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/index.html
June 01, 2021 - Learn Best Practices for Common Infectious Syndromes
Tools that describe the diagnosis, treatment … Best Practices Pocket Cards and Posters
Also review:
Appropriate Collection of Microbiological
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/wi-intuit-interview.html
November 01, 2024 - WI-INTUIT is working across a wide variety of primary care practices across the state. … How did you address this challenge in the primary care practices you worked with? … We are very grateful to have been able to work with these practices and communities. … Many of our practices opted to model their UI screening and treatment practices after their existing … practices for depression screening.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-11-root-cause-analysis.pdf
December 27, 2021 - Using Root Cause Analysis to Help Practices Understand and Improve Their Performance and Outcomes … Primary Care
Practice Facilitation
Curriculum
Module 11: Using Root Cause Analysis to Help
Practices … Using Root Cause Analysis To Help Practices Understand and
Improve Their Performance and Outcomes … Physician is using old guideline
recommendations and has not updated prescribing
practices. … A third process you can use with your practices to identify root causes is fall-
out analysis.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/reducing-adverse-drug-1.pdf
March 01, 2020 - Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/en-bsc-final-report-a.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Practices with low bandwidth or little QI experience met with the PF in person,
whereas practices with … , citing that many practices with limited EHR capacity are likely the practices that would
benefit from … Dashboards and quality reports showed practices how they
compared with other practices participating … THHN practices could select to submit their
data to TN-POPnet; for those practices, the PFs developed … Some practices did upskill existing staff into those roles, but many practices
described challenges
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/donahue.html
August 01, 2018 - This project included 76 primary care practices across North Carolina: 42% family medicine, 13% internal … medicine, and 26% pediatric medicine, mostly independent practices. 32 practices had more than 7 clinicians … All participating practices reported monthly clinical quality measures. … Smaller practices were disproportionately affected by the costs of implementation because larger practices … Only 50 percent of practices had an electronic health record (EHR) at the outset of this project.