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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-illinois-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - Spotlight on Illinois -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program
January 2018
This brief highlights the major strategies, lessons learned,
and outcomes from Illinois’s experience from February
2010 to February 2016 with the quality demonstration
funded by the Centers for Medicare…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/nursing-protocols/nursing-chg-basin-bathing.docx
March 01, 2022 - Standardized Nursing Protocol: Basin Bed Bathing With 2% Liquid Chlorhexidine (CHG) and Showering With 4% CHG Liquid Soap
Decolonization of
Non-ICU Patients With Devices
Section 9-2 – Standardized Nursing Protocol:
Basin Bed Bathing With 2% Liquid Chlorhexidine (CHG) and Showering With 4% CHG Liquid Soap
Background:…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/pruprev/factraining_slides.pptx
December 01, 2014 - PowerPoint Presentation
AHRQ’s Safety Program for
Nursing Homes:
On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Facilitator Training
Overview of On-Time
On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention Facilitator Training
2-day training provides:
Overview of On-Time
Instruction on the role of a Facilitator
Introduction to On-Time reports an…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/nh/about/measures-nursing-home-family-member-609.pdf
December 28, 2017 - Patient Experience Measures from the CAHPS Nursing Home Family Member Survey
Patient Experience Measures from the CAHPS Nursing Home Family Member Survey
CAHPS® Nursing Home Family Member Survey
Patient Experience Measures from the
CAHPS® Nursing Home Family Member
Survey
Document No. 609
Updated 12/2…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/b5_combo_assessingtrendscomparators.pdf
March 20, 2016 - Assessing Indicator Rates Using Trends and Comparators
Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
i Tool B.5
Assessing Indicator Rates Using Trends and Comparators
What is the purpose of this tool? This tool provides guidance on how to assess your hospital’s
pe…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/npsd-falls-chartbook-2023.pdf
January 01, 2023 - Network of Patient Safety Databases Falls Chartbook, 2023
Network of
Patient Safety
Databases Falls
Chartbook, 2023
This document is in the public domain and may be used and reprinted without permission. Citation
of the source is appreciated. S…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/teachback-infographic.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Data Infographic: More adults report always being asked to teach back providers' instructions (
More adults report always being asked
to teach back providers’ instructions
To start teach-back, providers ask patients to explain in their own words what they
need to know or do. This approach helps determine whether p…
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www.ahrq.gov/policy/electronic/links/index.html
July 01, 2025 - Linking to the AHRQ Website
Information about establishing links to the AHRQ website.
Our Home Page address: https://www.ahrq.gov We prefer linkages to the Home Page. If you link to specific items within the website, rather than the Home Page, please Submit a Message to notify us and provide the relevant U…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/national-action-plans.html
February 01, 2018 - National Action Plans
The work of AHRQ and other Federal agencies is guided by work groups, committees, investigators and expert advisors who contribute to reports on specific topics that impact health care.
National Action Plans
National Action Plans are developed with expert input to provide a framework f…
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/presentations/2008update-full/slide213.html
October 01, 2014 - 213. Specific Populations and Other Topics (Continued)
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update
Text version of slide presentation.
Clinical issues for treating specific populations
Issue
Approach
Language
Ensure that interventions are provided in a language the patient underst…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/contentcalls/clabsi_invest-slides/CLABSI-Investigation-Walk-the-Process-Sept-14-2010-508.ppt
January 01, 2010 - Slide 1
CLABSI Investigation
Melinda Sawyer, RN, MSN, PCCN
David A. Thompson DNSc, MS, RN
I’d like to take the opportunity to thank you for having me speak to you today. When we began focusing on central line blood stream infections at JHH, in particular, when we began to focus on the evidence around insertion, I w…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/about/impact-stories/research-careers.html
April 01, 2025 - Advancing Primary Care Research Careers
AHRQ Impact: AHRQ supports a variety of research training grant opportunities for pre- and post-doctorate researchers and career development grants for mentored and independent grant opportunities. Below, two early career researchers reflect on the positive i…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/safe-electronic/e-fetal-monitoring_facguide.pdf
May 01, 2017 - Monitoring for Perinatal Safety: Electronic Fetal Monitoring
AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care
Monitoring for Perinatal Safety: Electronic Fetal Monitoring
AHRQ Publication No. 17-0003-18-EF
May 2017
SAY:
The Monitoring for Perinatal Safety bundle
provides information on the use of electronic
fetal mo…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/medicaidmgmt/mm8b.html
October 01, 2014 - Designing and Implementing Medicaid Disease and Care Management Programs
Section 8: The Care Management Evidence Base (continued)
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Designing and Implementing Medicaid Disease and Care Management Programs
Introduction
Section 1: Planning a Care Management …
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/prevhosp/ereport-slides.html
September 01, 2017 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits Training
Facilitator Training Slide Presentation
Text version of slide presentation.
Slide 1: Introduction to Preventable Hospital and ED Visits Reports
AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/guide-appcusp.pdf
December 01, 2017 - Applying CUSP To Promote Safe Surgery
AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery
Applying the Comprehensive
Unit-based Safety Program
(CUSP) To Promote Safe
Surgery
AHRQ Publication No. 16(18)-0004-14-EF
December 2017
AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery
Contents
Introduction .........................................…
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/lessons.html
August 01, 2021 - Lessons from the Field Reports
The Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) was established to increase the portfolio of evidence-based, consensus pediatric quality measures available to public and private purchasers of children's health care services. It was established following enactment of the Children's H…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/smoking-cessation-flowchart.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention
Preventive Care and
Screening: Tobacco Use:
Screening and Cessation
Intervention
Was the patient aged 18 years or
older on the first day of the
measurement period?
Did the patient have at least two
face to face visits with an e…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/nmstateataglance.pdf
March 01, 2012 - New Mexico State at a Glance
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/costateataglance.pdf
March 01, 2012 - Colorado State at a Glance
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