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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/teledx-2.html
August 01, 2020 - Telediagnosis for Acute Care: Implications for the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis
Evidence Base Supporting Telehealth
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Telediagnosis for Acute Care: Implications for the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis
Introduction
Evidence Base Supporting Telehealth
I…
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/scores/index.html
March 01, 2016 - Generating Health Care Quality Scores That Show Differences
The critical link between collecting performance information and sharing that information with others is the process of generating scores. The nature of the score is often inherent in the measure (e.g., an overall rating on a 1-10 scale). But even in…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/action-plan-template.docx
June 02, 2025 - Action Plan Worksheet
ACTION PLAN WORKSHEET
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Discuss with your team some improvements you’d like to make specific to the High Leverage Changes listed in the table. Use the data from the Quality Improvement Change Assessment (QICA), current patient panel data, discussions with your coach and team, or ob…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2015-03-nac/nacmtg0315-minutes.html
July 01, 2015 - Institute for Healthcare Improvement developed a theory of change and has been using it in collaborative processes
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/gallagher3-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Training Doctors To Disclose Unanticipated Outcomes to Patients: Randomized Trial
R01HS016506 Final Progress Report 12-26-13; Gallagher TH, PI. 1
Title Page
Title of Project: Training Doctors to Disclose Unanticipated Outcomes to Patients:
Randomized Trial
Principal Investigator and Team M…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/Improving_diagnosis_flyer.pdf
April 01, 2019 - Impoving Diagnosis
Improving Diagnosis
Diagnostic error is a significant and under-recognized threat to patient
safety.
■ Diagnostic errors affect more than 12 million Americans each year and may seriously harm approximately
4 million.
■ Fifty-five percent of patients said diagnostic errors were a chief conce…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/prevent/maintenance-checklist.html
March 01, 2017 - Appendix H. Indwelling Urinary Catheter Maintenance Checklist
AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI
Instructions for Use
Purpose
Use of a standardized indwelling urinary catheter (IUC) maintenance checklist can ensure that residents are protected through application of nationally …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/HIT-Patient-Safety-Item-Set-English-12-15-22.docx
December 01, 2022 - SOPS® Health Information Technology (IT) Supplemental Item Set for the SOPS Hospital Survey
SOPS® Health Information Technology (IT) Supplemental Item Set for the SOPS Hospital Survey
Language: English
Purpose: This supplemental item set was designed for use with the core SOPS® Hospital Survey Version 2.0 to help ho…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-0138-section-6a.pdf
December 01, 2013 - Section 6.A, Figures 1 to 4 and Table 5
Q‐METRIC Sickle Cell Disease Measure 3: Appropriate Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Children with Sickle
Cell Disease
Graphics for Sec…
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/mutual/tools/feedback.html
June 01, 2023 - Tool: Formative Feedback
While feedback in general can be verbal or nonverbal and intentional or unintentional, formative feedback is information deliberately provided to improve team performance. The ability to communicate self-improvement information in a useful way is an important skill in the team improveme…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/leveraging-data-slides.pdf
April 01, 2021 - Affinity Group:
Leveraging Data to
Enhance your CR Program
H i c h a m S k a l i , M D , M S c
N o v e m b e r 1 2 , 2 0 2 0
Welcome and TAKEheart Update
2
TAKEheart training activities will resume as early as April 2021 and
pick up with the third training module in the series
Several re-start acti…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-patient-narrative-martino.pdf
June 01, 2021 - An Update on the CAHPS Patient Narrative Item Sets - Martino
UPDATED NARRATIVE ITEM SETS FOR THE
CAHPS CLINICIAN & GROUP SURVEY
Steven Martino, PhD
Overview of Narrative Item Set Development Process
• Literature review and environmental scan
• Drafting of narrative items
• Pretesting to assess readability and …
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/indwelling-urinary-catheter-use/catheter-insertion/unlicensed-staff/scenarios-instr.html
March 01, 2017 - Urinary Catheter Types and How To Care for Them Activity
AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI
Staff Role Play—How good are your catheter care skills?
Roleplaying can be a helpful training and educational tool. Roleplaying allows staff to actively practice the skills they are learni…
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-hernandez-boussard.html
April 01, 2024 - Grantee Profile
Analyzing Big Datasets to Improve Healthcare Quality, Equity
Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Dean of Research
Stanford University School of Medicine
Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Ph.D., M.P.H.
“Large clinical datasets contain a goldmine of information on healthcar…
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-malone.html
September 01, 2023 - Grantee Profile
Protecting Patients from Drug-Drug Medication Errors
Daniel C. Malone, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacotherapy
Skaggs College of Pharmacy
University of Utah
Daniel C. Malone, Ph.D.
“With funding from AHRQ, I’ve helped ensure that warnings for drug-drug interactions are appropria…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/diabetesnetwork/diabnet1.html
October 01, 2014 - Hispanic Diabetes Disparities Learning Network in Community Health Centers
Chapter 1. Introduction
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Hispanic Diabetes Disparities Learning Network in Community Health Centers
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Project Description
Chapter 3. Structure of…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/podcasts/measure-patient-experience-podcast.html
March 01, 2017 - How CAHPS Surveys Measure Patient Experience
Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA
Executive Director, John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation
Massachusetts General Hospital
Are patient experience and patient satisfaction one and the same? How do CAHPS surveys measure patients’ experiences with the…
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/measure_retirement/measure_retirement3.html
February 01, 2014 - Background Report on 2013 Retirement of Measures from the Child Core Set
Methods
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Background Report on 2013 Retirement of Measures from the Child Core Set
Abstract
Background
Methods
Results
Conclusions
References
Appendix A.
Appendix B.
A…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crctoolkit/crctkittable1.html
April 01, 2018 - Tracking and Improving Screening for Colorectal Cancer Intervention
Table 1. Intervention Steps and Implementation Tools
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Tracking and Improving Screening for Colorectal Cancer Intervention
I. Introduction
II. Background
III. Intervention Steps and Tool…
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/needs-and-testing/index.html
May 01, 2019 - How Will You Test Aspects of Your Health Care Quality Report?
Given all the time, money, and effort you are investing in developing and distributing a quality report, you want to be sure that your report is as effective as possible. In other words, you want every aspect of the report to work as well as it can …