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  1. 2_DimensionofBusinessPractices (pdf file)

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    June 16, 2021 - – Organizational policies, procedures, and work processes are designed to control access to personal … established to ensure secure transmission of personal health information Interorganizational processes … Dimensions of Business Practice: Established data integrity processes, policies, and procedures (within … (within and between entities or individuals, including business processes and technology) Notification … processes documenting when data needs to be modified for appropriate purposes such as treatment

  2. Improving Healthcare Using Engineering Principles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    November 01, 2023 - This quest to understand healthcare processes led her to apply engineering principles—thinking of healthcare … that needs to be designed, and often redesigned given the dynamic nature of work, so we can improve processes … Gurses received a 4-year AHRQ grant to understand diagnostic processes in emergency departments and … electronic health records for critical care nurses and impact of this technology on clinical nursing processes

  3. Denver Health: How a Safety Net System Maximizes Its Value (pdf file)

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    April 01, 2019 - Denver Health leaders’ commitment to Lean processes has helped to embed a systemwide commitment to … Denver Health leaders are also thinking about data as a systemwide tool to improve processes and patient … In addition to adopting Toyota’s Lean processes, system leaders have embraced the Lean Kaizen approach … to look across individual reports to identify opportunities to put systemwide quality improvement processes … Hence its commitment to Lean processes and to giving clinicians permission to innovate and the tools

  4. Impact of performance obstacles on intensive care nurses' workload, perceived quality and safety of care, and quality of working life. | PSNet

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    March 11, 2020 - cognition in handoffs: relating system factors, team cognition functions and outcomes in two handoff processes … June 22, 2022 Care transition of trauma patients: processes with articulation work before … View More Related Resources Care transition of trauma patients: processes … Rework and workarounds in nurse medication administration process: implications for work processes

  5. Crandall, Donald | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2023 - Crandall, Donald Redesigning care processes using an electronic health … Redesigning care processes using an electronic health record: a system's experience. … of Care Delivery with EHR Functions Transformation of emergency department processes … Transformation of emergency department processes of care with EHR, CPOE, and ER event tracking systems

  6. Exhibit 6.14. Major Factors that Facilitated Lean Success | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    November 01, 2014 - Staff engagement Involving staff in designing the new processes garnered more ownership in processes

  7. Medication Management Transactions and Errors in Family Medicine Offices: A Pilot Study (pdf file)

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    March 21, 2008 - No investigator has explored the extent to which office processes contribute to medication errors. … The time slot from the primary care viewpoint does not include medication management processes from … When the study detected mitigation transactions, the measures reflected processes occurring when the … involved in new chronic medications; and processes taking place when a chart might not be available … Other office processes that demonstrate opportunities for focused improvement include prescribing new

  8. Module IV- Skills for Successful Engagement (pdf file)

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    May 29, 2025 - These skills are similar to those found in consensus building processes, and are used by facilitators … Facilitator refers to the “role” someone is given to carry out effective processes and discussions. … It is also important to plan the processes that will be used to gather feedback. … § Consider involving multiple types of stakeholders, and appropriate processes for doing so. … Slide 22 Challenge: Continuous Improvement § Review processes § Encourage feedback § Incorporate

  9. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)

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    May 20, 2016 - Assess the surgical wound postoperatively and document any findings of wound dehiscence.1,2,7 Best Processes … • Evaluate effectiveness of new processes, determine gaps, modify processes as needed, and reimplement … Additional Resources Systems/Processes • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Best Processes/Systems of Care Introduction: Essential First Steps Recommended Practice: Wound Dehiscence … Assessment Educational Recommendation Effectiveness of Action Items Additional Resources Systems/Processes

  10. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4l_combo_psi15-accidentalpuncturelaceration-bestpractices.pdf
    May 31, 2016 - Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 2 Tool D.4l Best Processes … • Evaluate effectiveness of new processes, determine gaps, modify processes as needed, and reimplement … Additional Resources Systems/Processes • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … Best Processes/Systems of Care Introduction: Essential First Steps Recommended Practice: Appropriate … Disposal Educational Recommendation Effectiveness of Action Items Additional Resources Systems/Processes

  11. Quality-related event learning in community pharmacies: manual versus computerized reporting processes. | PSNet

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    November 09, 2016 - Quality-related event learning in community pharmacies: manual versus computerized reporting processes … Quality-related event learning in community pharmacies: Manual versus computerized reporting processes … Quality-related event learning in community pharmacies: Manual versus computerized reporting processes

  12. Role of knowledge and reasoning processes as predictors of resident physicians' susceptibility to anchoring bias in diagnostic reasoning: a randomised controlled experiment. | PSNet

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    March 18, 2020 - Study Role of knowledge and reasoning processes as predictors of resident physicians … Role of knowledge and reasoning processes as predictors of resident physicians’ susceptibility to anchoring … Role of knowledge and reasoning processes as predictors of resident physicians’ susceptibility to anchoring

  13. Assessing patients 2019 experiences with medical injury reconciliation processes: item generation for a novel survey questionnaire. | PSNet

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    June 16, 2021 - Study Assessing patients 2019 experiences with medical injury reconciliation processes … Assessing patients 2019 experiences with medical injury reconciliation processes: item generation for … Assessing patients 2019 experiences with medical injury reconciliation processes: item generation for

  14. The effect of providing staff training and enhanced support to care homes on care processes, safety climate and avoidable harms: evaluation of a care home quality improvement programme in England. | PSNet

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    September 15, 2021 - The effect of providing staff training and enhanced support to care homes on care processes … The effect of providing staff training and enhanced support to care homes on care processes, safety climate … The effect of providing staff training and enhanced support to care homes on care processes, safety climate

  15. Processes for disciplining nurses for unprofessional conduct of a serious nature: a critique. | PSNet

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    June 29, 2011 - Study Processes for disciplining nurses for unprofessional conduct of a serious nature … Processes for disciplining nurses for unprofessional conduct of a serious nature: a critique. … Processes for disciplining nurses for unprofessional conduct of a serious nature: a critique.

  16. Understanding the Transformation Experiences of Small Practices With National Committee for Quality Assurance Medical Home Recognition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    December 01, 2017 - Even those who said they "were always a medical home" noted that their care processes were more comprehensive … Some physicians and staff were initially resistant to learning new processes and systems, especially … Implementing new processes was also time consuming, and the changes sometimes caused confusion and stress … until the processes operated smoothly.

  17. Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas of Research Workshop - Quality Engineering Group Report Day 1 (pdf file)

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    September 21, 2009 - Quality = failure-free processes ii. … Quality = creating highly reliable and safe processes that are designed to achieve desired outcomes … Quality = variance minimization in unnecessary variation in outcomes, practices, and processes … What is the ease of compliance in regard to processes? … • What are the elements/sub-processes that need to be 10 sigma to get whole system to 6 sigma?

  18. Task Force at a Glance | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

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    June 22, 2025 - Work PDF, 1.26 MB Briefing packet that provides an in-depth overview on the Task Force, including processes … Works PDF, 890 KB Presentation that provides overview information about the Task Force, including processes … Making a Task Force Recommendation PDF, 5 MB Presentation that provides an overview of the methods and processes … We routinely seek outside input to ensure our processes are transparent and the best available science

  19. VA Health Care: Steps Taken to Improve Practitioner Screening, but Facility Compliance with Screening Requirements is Poor. | PSNet

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    September 28, 2010 - taken steps to improve the reliability of their practitioner licensure and certification screening processes … August 2, 2023 Defense Health Agency Processes for Responding to Provider Quality and … July 11, 2018 VA Health Care: Improvements Needed in Processes Used to Address Providers

  20. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d4h_pdi10-sepsis-bestpractices.pdf
    May 17, 2016 - measures such as door- to-antibiotic time; share reports regularly to communicate progress.5 Best Processes … Campaign Guidelines, Figure 2, for the PALS management algorithm; see Additional Resources, “Systems/Processes … • Evaluate effectiveness of new processes, determine gaps, modify processes as needed, and reimplement … evaluate performance regularly to sustain improvements achieved.5 Additional Resources Systems/Processes … Best Processes/Systems of Care Introduction: Essential First Steps Recommended Practice: Implement
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