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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy1/Strat1_Tool_4_Letters_508.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Strategy 1: Working with Patients & Families as Advisors (Tool 4)
Guide to Patient and Family Engagement :: 1
Sample Letter of Invitation
for Advisory Council Applicants
Dear [insert name],
I am pleased to invite you to join the [patient and family advisory council or name of the council if it has been cho…
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/health-it.html
December 01, 2018 - Webcast: New AHRQ SOPS Health IT Patient Safety Supplemental Items
July 25, 2018
3 Key Takeaways from the July 2018 AHRQ Webcast: New SOPS™ Health Information Technology (Health IT) Patient Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals (PDF, 161 KB)
Summary
Speakers and Presentation Slides
Recording
Tr…
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/hsops2.0/index.html
March 01, 2020 - Introducing the New SOPS Hospital Survey 2.0 (Webcast)
October 30, 2019
Summary
Speakers and Presentation Slides
Recording
Transcript
Summary
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) hosted a webcast to introduce the SOPS Hospital Survey 2.0. AHRQ developed and pilot tested the …
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/situation/tools/star.html
July 01, 2024 - Tool: STAR
STAR is a mnemonic tool that is used extensively to help elicit and share key information about activities and their consequences. Its key elements include: Situation monitoring often requires analyzing situations in which tasks were assigned, were completed, and resulted in outcomes that might or mi…
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www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/webinars/workforce-safety-well-being.html
October 01, 2024 - National Action Alliance Webinar: Leadership Strategies That Improve Workforce Safety and Well-Being
Summary Healthcare leaders today face increasing demands to safeguard their teams and the patients they serve. A webinar on October 8 provided practical tools and strategies to address these challenges and offer…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/improve/six-building-blocks-guide.html
December 01, 2021 - Six Building Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care
How-To-Implement Toolkit
The Six Building Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care (6BBs or Building Blocks ) program provides a roadmap to improve care for patients with …
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/enhanced-recovery/implementing.html
June 01, 2023 - Implementing an ISCR Pathway
Tools and Resources To Help Hospitals Implement an ISCR Program
Engagement and Development of Your ISCR Pathway
This part of the implementation phase is critical to spend time on because it is the foundation of your Improving Surgical Care and Recovery (ISCR) program. The Implem…
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/final-report/section5.html
October 01, 2015 - National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program: Final Project Report
5. Conclusion and Summary
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program: Final Project Report
1. Overview
2. Synthesis of Key Findings by …
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/labels/explain.html
January 01, 2019 - Explain Why a Health Care Quality Measure Matters
In some cases, report users will not know why a particular measure is important as an aspect of quality. When people don’t realize the importance of a measure, they are unlikely to look at or use the data. 1 In the case of clinical process measures, for example…
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/webcasts/nursing-home-survey.html
June 01, 2022 - SOPS Nursing Home Survey: What You Need To Know (Webcast)
May 3, 2022
Summary
Speakers and Presentation Slides
Recording
About the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture
Summary
This AHRQ webcast focused on use of the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) Nursing Home Survey to assess and impro…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/morningbriefing.doc
June 02, 2025 - Conducting a Morning Briefing
Problem statement: Physicians can improve communication with nursing staff while more efficiently prioritizing patient care delivery and admissions and discharges.
What is a Morning Briefing? A morning briefing is a dialogue between two or more people using concise and relevant informati…
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/best-practices-103024.html
November 01, 2024 - Improving Hospital Handoffs Using AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® Hospital Survey (Webcast)
October 30, 2024
Contents Summary Speakers and Presentation Slides Recording About the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture Summary This webcast highlighted how Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Virginia used AH…
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/strategies/index.html
October 01, 2022 - Learn Strategies for Communicating With Colleagues, Patients, and Families About Antibiotic Prescribing
In ambulatory care, reaching consensus on how a practice will manage antibiotic prescribing can help create a standard approach to prescribing so patients receive the same message from all clinicians in the p…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/candor/module4/mod4-system-focused-event-guide.pdf
April 01, 2016 - Purpose: To help teams adopt a system-focused approached to event investigation and analysis.
Who should use this tool? Event Reporting, Investigation, and Analysis Team.
How to use this tool: Review the guide information when developing and implementing a systems approaching to
event investigation and analysis.
T…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospvaluepilotreport.pdf
November 01, 2017 - The draft supplemental items were cognitively tested with
hospital providers and staff to ensure that
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/carayon-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Focus Groups
As the research study progressed, healthcare providers experienced with both the “old” IV
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospitalvaluepilotreport.pdf
November 01, 2017 - The draft supplemental items were cognitively tested with
hospital providers and staff to ensure that
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/video/module-3-situation-monitoring-facilitator-guide.pdf
June 02, 2025 - TeamSTEPPS Video-Based Simulation: Facilitator Guide Module 3
Video-Based Simulation:
Facilitator Guide
Situation Monitoring
Shared Mental Model
TeamSTEPPS Training Curriculum
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK3_T5-Minimum_Criteria_for_3_Infections_Training_Slides-final.pptx
October 01, 2016 - PowerPoint Presentation
Toolkit 3. Minimum Criteria for Common Infections Toolkit
[Name]
[Organization]
AHRQ Pub. No. 17-0006-5-EF
October 2016
Tool 5. Nursing Staff Training on Importance and Use of SBAR Forms
Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Determine Whether To Treat
Welcome, everyone, to today’s t…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/survey-codebook-6mon-post-intervention.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Follow-up Practice Survey Codebook Including Core and Optional Items
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