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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/05-outpt-mhs-webcast-mullin.pdf
June 02, 2025 - and health systems
• Outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment organizations
• Practices … monitoring changes in patient’s experience of care over
time
• Also useful for making comparisons between practices … focus on process and
outcome measures with a validated patient experience measure
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Advice for Practices … often have heightened vigilance
regarding issues of privacy and safety
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Potential Text for Practices … Advice for Practices and Clinicians
Potential Text for Practices
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight05.html
November 01, 2013 - Recognize that for practices to perform well on the Child Core Set measures, they will need strategies … States will likely need to support practices in various ways, such as providing technical assistance … Table 1: Selected QI Strategies Pennsylvania Practices Used to Improve Performance
Measure … Some practices contribute fully to collaborative sessions and blog postings. … Table 2 lists some of the QI strategies practices implemented.
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/meeting-summary-cooperatives/building-state2.html
October 01, 2024 - they wanted to work with—rural practices. … Practices with VBP models with Medicaid as a payer had lower mean tobacco cessation, and practices with … practices). … community resources were shared across and used by all the practices. … More real-time data shared with practices can enable quicker QI interventions.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreen2a.html
April 01, 2018 - to experience problems with the remaining 7 practices. … The protocol we used for the chart audits follows:
For intervention practices:
In practices with … For control practices:
In practices with approximately 50 or fewer patients included in the study … We used a higher target for control practices than for intervention practices to partly compensate for … having less complete data for control practices.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d1_combo_improvementmethodsoverview.pptx
June 02, 2025 - Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
Tool D.1 Slide ‹#›
Diagnose the problem
Plan and implement best practices … Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
Tool D.1 Slide ‹#›
Step 2
Plan and Implement Best Practices … How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
Tool D.1 Slide ‹#›
4
Step 2
Plan and Implement Best Practices … satisfactory:
Continue implementation, data measurement, and analysis
Integrate and standardize best practices … (Tools D.3, D.4)
Conduct a Gap Analysis (Tool D.5)
Select Best Practices on Gap Analysis
Performance
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d1_combo_improvementmethodsoverview.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Plan and implement best practices
3. Measure results and analyze
4. … Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
Tool D.1 Slide 5
Step 2
Plan and Implement Best
Practices … Project Evaluation (Tool D.8)
• Focus on lessons learned
• Future planning
• Standardization of best
practices … the Problem
• Describe Improvement Initiative – Project Charter (Tool D.2)
• Review and Select Best Practices … (Tools D.3, D.4)
• Conduct a Gap Analysis (Tool D.5)
• Select Best Practices on Gap Analysis
Performance
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d1_pdi_improvementmethodsoverview.pptx
June 02, 2025 - Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
Tool D.1 Slide ‹#›
Diagnose the problem
Plan and implement best practices … Indicators
How to Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
Tool D.1 Slide ‹#›
Step 2
Plan and Implement Best Practices … satisfactory:
Continue implementation, data measurement, and analysis
Integrate and standardize best practices … Diagnose the Problem
Describe Improvement Initiative – Project Charter (Tool D.2)
Review and Select Best Practices … (Tools D.3, D.4)
Conduct a Gap Analysis (Tool D.5)
Select Best Practices on Gap Analysis
Performance
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d1_pdi_improvementmethodsoverview.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Plan and implement best practices
3. Measure results and analyze
4. … Indicators
How to Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
Tool D.1 Slide 5
Step 2
Plan and Implement Best
Practices … Project Evaluation (Tool D.8)
• Focus on lessons learned
• Future planning
• Standardization of best
practices … the Problem
• Describe Improvement Initiative – Project Charter (Tool D.2)
• Review and Select Best Practices … (Tools D.3, D.4)
• Conduct a Gap Analysis (Tool D.5)
• Select Best Practices on Gap Analysis
Performance
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module4/module4_pu-implementation_slides.pptx
June 02, 2025 - Examined current practices and identified aspects needing improvement (Module 2). … Examined best practices and made preliminary decisions on what best practices will be included
in your … 4
4
Planning Goals
Plan how you will:
Put best practices into operation. … Pilot test the new best practices.
5
Planning Goals
Plan how you will:
Get staff engaged and excited … In that case, be sure to assign a backup person.
8
List of Best Practices
Preliminary list of best
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/webinars/pbrn-webinar-2-highlighting-promoting.pdf
September 01, 2024 - Family Medicine.
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Presentation Topics
4
• Benefits of practice - based research for
primary care practices … • Engagement with practices and clinicians.
• Collaboration and interdisciplinary
approaches. … Our network
• 140 practices
across 40
organizations
• Variety of practice
types including:
FQHCs … , health
systems, tribal,
rural health,
independently-
owned and
naturopathic
practices
Practice … , >300 clinicians, >165,000 patients
• Attributing patients to PCPs and practices
• Denominators for
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-17-introducing-a-practice-to-pf.pdf
September 01, 2015 - Tell two stories that illustrate the activities of facilitators in practices. … How will you use this information with your practices?
After the session. … Practices sometimes comment, “I wish I had understood sooner how
to use the practice facilitator.” … • Tell stories about the work you’ve done with other practices. … Engaging
Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/dowdstudysnapshot.pdf
November 01, 2015 - Shriram Parashuram, Robert Coulam, Robert Kane, John Kralewski, David Gans
Between 2008 and 2014, practices … for reporting quality
performance, along with reports comparing their performance to that of other practices … Background
Participating practices received financial bonuses that ranged from 0.5 percent to 2.0
percent … They
also received reports from CMS comparing their performance to that of other reporting
practices … ■ Larger practices were more likely to participate: Those most likely to participate had
substantial
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/overview/overview.pptx
May 01, 2017 - Module 1: PowerPoint Presentation
Management Practices for Sustainability
Module 1: Overview
AHRQ Safety … 0019-4-EF
May 2017
Module 1: Overview | ‹#›
AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery
Management Practices … Module 1: Overview | ‹#›
AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery
Management Practices for Sustainability … Module 1: Overview | ‹#›
AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery
Management Practices for Sustainability … for Sustainability
5
A Model for Sustainability in ASCs
Visual board tracks safety practices and outcomes
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight10.pdf
September 08, 2015 - Each coach recruited practices in
an assigned area of the State to test
the Format. … Practices and health systems were
motivated by a desire for better
EHRs
Practices in North Carolina … The practices have a
lot of angst about the systems
they are currently using. … EHR coaches compiled and compared
the responses of practices and
vendors. … Practices and health
systems said that they benefited
from the comparison process.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/lindenauer-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Implementation of Clinical Practices (from the QI director survey)
Progress toward implementation
… , will be associated with the
implementation of recommended clinical practices. … Additional analyses that are focused on specific
clinical practices are in progress. … Hypothesis 2: Hospitals that report successful implementation of clinical practices will have
larger … as easily piloted were associated with greater
implementation of the clinical practices.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/using-health-it-to-support-qi.pdf
March 01, 2015 - with these practices to develop and expand the use of health IT for QI. … IT] is wiping out practices
that are on their own. … to which practices can aspire. … Although significant obstacles prevent many primary care practices from using health IT for
QI, practices … “Quality Improvement in
Primary Care: External Supports for Practices.”
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/EvidenceNOW-BSC-MI-profile.pdf
September 01, 2021 - equity in primary care by working with health care organizations, public health, and
primary care practices … Evaluate the ability of rural practices to implement the elements of the HH4M
model by identifying … Evaluation
The capacity of small rural practices to adopt and sustain QI
strategies will be a key focus … Notable Features
• Focusing on rural practices and Tribal
Health clinics, which experience much
higher … At the same
time, the practices that serve them lack many of the supports and infrastructure available
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight05.pdf
September 08, 2015 - States will likely need to support practices in various ways, such
as providing technical assistance … In PDSA cycles, the
practices define a quality improvement
aim related to a Child Core Set measure, … Midway through the
demonstration, a QI specialist was hired
to advise practices on how to implement … Some practices contribute fully to
collaborative sessions and blog
postings. … Table 2 lists
some of the QI strategies practices
implemented.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/estimating-costs-primary-care-transformation.pdf
July 31, 2015 - The organizational structures of the
practices varied and included independent practices, for-profit … ranging from solo rural practices
to large urban multispecialty primary care practices. … practices were
recognized at Level 3, and
three at Level 1. … with mature PCMH
practices. … primary care
practices
The six participating practices
were already providing or
considering
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/soumerai-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - , 12.5% in the individual detailing
practices, and 6.2% in the usual care practices. … (14.7%) than in the group detailing practices (11.3%) or the usual care
practices (10.1%). … , $277 in the individual
detailing practices, and $269 in the group detailing practices. … ,
$198 in the individual detailing practices, and $220 in the group detailing practices. … $79 in the individual detailing practices, and $49 in the group
detailing practices.