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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/202502.html
June 01, 2025 - Kaiser Permanente School of Anesthesia Uses AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture®, TeamSTEPPS®
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June 2025
Kaiser Permanente (KP) School of Anesthesia in Pasadena, California, uses AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS®) to improve ambulatory care and expand docto…
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/resources/case-studies.html
March 01, 2025 - Impact Case Studies on the SOPS Surveys
AHRQ’s collection of Impact Case Studies highlights successes of organizations using AHRQ’s evidence-based tools and resources. Below are success stories from organizations that used the SOPS Surveys grouped by year the case study was published. Contact us at ImpactCas…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d2_pdi_projectcharter.pdf
December 23, 2009 - Project Charter
Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
i Tool D.2
Project Charter
What is the purpose of this tool? The purpose of the project charter is to describe the performance
improvement rationale, goals, barriers, and anticipated resources to…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d2_pdi_projectcharter.docx
December 23, 2009 - Project Charter
What is the purpose of this tool? The purpose of the project charter is to describe the performance improvement rationale, goals, barriers, and anticipated resources to which the team will commit.
Who are the target audiences? Staff members directly involved in the improvement project. Consider adding r…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/echo/about/209_echo-reporting-measures.pdf
January 01, 2004 - Reporting Measures for the ECHO Survey 3.0 Page 1 of 3
Document No. 209 – 8/31/06
For additional guidance, please email cahps1@ahrq.gov or call the CAHPS Help Line at (800) 492-9261.
ECHO® Survey and Reporting Kit 2004
Reporting Measures for the ECHO® Survey
3.0
Items Included in the Measure Reportin…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20140115_DB/3_Deborah_Kilstein_slides_29-40.pdf
January 15, 2014 - Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance
CAHPS Sponsor Report
The ACAP Experience
Deborah Kilstein
ACAP Vice President, Quality Management and
Operational Support
January 15, 2014
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Agenda
30
Who is ACAP?
Growing role of health plans
What …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/nh-workplace-safety-ginsberg.pdf
January 01, 2015 - New AHRQ SOPS® Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Nursing Homes - Caren Ginsberg, Ph.D.
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AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™
(SOPS®) Program
Caren Ginsberg, Ph.D.
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• AHRQ is:
► A research and sci…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201809.html
January 01, 2019 - AHRQ Toolkit Helped NorthShore Health Track Data to Keep Infection Rates Low
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January 2019
Chicago’s NorthShore University Health System was on a mission to maintain low rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI). Then NorthShore infection preventionist Mona …
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201808.html
December 01, 2018 - Tampa Hospital Uses AHRQ Tools to Reduce Emergency Department CAUTI Rates by 75 Percent
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December 2018
Tampa General Hospital staff participated in an AHRQ project and implemented several elements from AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce healthcare…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/hp/improve/index.html
July 01, 2022 - Using CAHPS Health Plan Survey Data
A version of the CAHPS Health Plan Survey is conducted in almost every State in the U.S. Sponsors of this survey include health plans, private purchasers, State agencies that purchase and regulate healthcare, and Federal agencies, such as the Department of Defense and the Cen…
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www.ahrq.gov/sitemap.html
August 11, 2025 - AHRQ Main Site
Topics
Priority Populations
About Priority Populations
Children/Adolescents
Elderly
Low-Income
Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Rural/Inner-City Residents
Special Healthcare Needs
Women
Information in Spanish
Programs
Rese…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d2_combo_projectcharter.pdf
December 23, 2009 - Project Charter
Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
i Tool D.2
Project Charter
What is the purpose of this tool? The purpose of the project charter is to describe the performance
improvement rationale, goals, barriers, and anticipated resources to which the…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d2_combo_projectcharter.docx
December 23, 2009 - Project Charter
What is the purpose of this tool? The purpose of the project charter is to describe the performance improvement rationale, goals, barriers, and anticipated resources to which the team will commit.
Who are the target audiences? Staff members directly involved in the improvement project. Consider adding …
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/primary-care-research/summary.html
January 01, 2024 - Mapping AHRQ's 30-Year Investment in Primary Care Research (1990-2020)
Summary
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Mapping AHRQ's 30-Year Investment in Primary Care Research (1990-2020)
Introduction
Methods
Results
Summary
References
Appendix A. Grants Database Search Terms & Analy…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/overhage-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Improved Patient Safety with Information Technology
Final Progress Report
Title of Project: Improved Patient Safety with Information Technology
Principal Investigator: J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD
Team Members: Irmina Gradus-Pizlo, MD
Chris Steinmetz, MD
Karen Wolf, MD
JingJin Li, PhD…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/pruprev/saworksheet.docx
June 02, 2025 - On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Self-Assessment Worksheet for Pressure Ulcer
The Self-Assessment Worksheet is designed to help staff review how they currently identify residents who have experienced a change in pressure ulcer risk, how they determine if new clinical interventions are needed, and how they determine w…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/haify11.pdf
January 01, 2011 - AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2011
Introduction
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)
are infections that people acquire while
they are receiving treatment for another
condition in a health care setting. They
are costly, deadly, and largely
preventable. A core part of the Ag…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/literacy-toolkit/healthlittoolkit2-tool2a.docx
June 02, 2025 - Primary Care Health Literacy Assessment
Please select one answer that most accurately describes your practice:
Doing Well
Our practice is doing this well
Needs Improvement
Our practice is doing this, but could do it better
Not Doing
Our practice is not doing this
Not Sure or N/A
I don’t know…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/haidesign/haidesign-summary.html
April 01, 2018 - Understanding the Role of Health Care Facility Design in the Acquisition and Prevention of HAIs
This report summarizes the role of the built environment in the transmission of pathogens and discusses the impact that design features could have in mitigating transmission in health care facilities.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/162-example-completed-learning-defects-tool.docx
October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
Learning From Defects Tool - Example
ICU & Non-ICU
Problem statement: Healthcare organizations can increase the extent to which they learn from defects. We define this learning as reducing the probability that future patients will be harmed.
What is a defect? A defect is any cli…