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  1. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/communicate/index.html
    November 01, 2018 - Communicating Key Information Upfront in a Quality Report Whether your report is on paper or … Give People a Reason To Look at the Report Provide a Framework for Understanding Quality Build Trust … To learn about design principles in the context of report cards, go to Tips on Designing a Quality Report
  2. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/your-audience/index.html
    December 01, 2022 - Identify the Audience for Your Healthcare Quality Report Before doing anything else, you need … First Priority: The Primary Audience The group you are trying to reach and inform with your quality … Older adults, for instance, are the primary audience for information on the quality of Medicare plans … Moreover, only part of this limited population will be willing and able to use quality information to … Physicians are often a secondary audience for quality reports on hospitals or nursing homes.
  3. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/share-info/index.html
    November 01, 2018 - Sharing Additional Information and Resources in Quality Reports Once people are engaged with … Explain Key Facts About Health Care That Relate to Your Quality Information Highlight Consumer Rights … , Protections, and Ways To Complain Offer Information on How Cost and Quality Relate No report … Consider including: Other quality reports (sponsored by your own organization or another organization
  4. www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/finalsummary/finalsummary3.html
    September 01, 2015 - Key Lessons from the National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program Transforming … service delivery to promote quality of care Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents … Key Lessons from the National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program Introduction … Reporting and using the Child Core Set of quality measures Transforming service delivery to promote … Applying health information technologies (IT) for QI Building partnerships to improve quality of
  5. www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/home-health-quality-improvement.html
    December 01, 2022 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders Challenges and Opportunities in Home Health Quality Improvement … by the Agency’s  National Advisory Council members about their discussions on advancing healthcare quality … The quality improvement (QI) challenges around home healthcare are myriad. … More personalized quality metrics and better data are on the near-term horizon.
  6. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/categorize.html
    December 01, 2022 - Categorizing High and Low Performance in Quality Reports Some sponsors worry about creating … When the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners were preparing to publicly reported data on patients’ … is no meaningful variation across health plans and providers, so there is no need to look at or use quality
  7. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/choose/index.html
    December 01, 2022 - Choosing a Comparator for Health Care Quality Scores One of the most important decisions you … Many people do not realize that quality varies and that performance is sometimes poor in absolute terms … The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States.
  8. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/promote/act-early/identify.html
    November 01, 2018 - Defining a Quality Report's Audience for Promotional Purposes A key step in effective reporting … In the case of quality reports, the low-hanging fruit would be the people who are already fairly well
  9. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/promote/act-early/learn-about/index.html
    July 01, 2011 - Researching a Quality Report's Audience for Promotional Purposes In the planning stages of … What would they see as the greatest benefits to using comparative quality information? … one kind or another whom they would view as a trusted and attractive “messenger” about health care quality
  10. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/order.html
    November 01, 2018 - Ordering Health Care Organizations in a Quality Report In what order will different health plans … Health care organizations are more likely to respond to the report with quality improvement efforts. … One effective approach is to provide information about quality within cost tiers. [ 2 ] For example, … Best Practices for presenting Quality Data. … Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality: Rockville, MD; 2008.
  11. www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/h2h/index.html
    July 01, 2021 - Quality of Pediatric Hospital-to-Home Transitions Toolkit Next Page Table of Contents … Quality of Pediatric Hospital-to-Home Transitions Toolkit Introduction Overview About the Measure … Key Driver Diagram Quality Improvement Strategies Improvement Data Other Resources … Pediatric Quality Measures Program Acknowledgements Introduction Overview About the Measure … This toolkit was funded under the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S.
  12. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/pay.html
    November 01, 2018 - How Will You Pay for a Health Care Quality Report? … Local efforts are increasingly using multistakeholder partnerships to pursue quality-related projects … , including the development of quality report cards. … , health plans, and public and private purchasers work together to generate and publish comparative quality … Through this arrangement, health plans bear the cost of collecting data on their quality; the plans also
  13. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/details.html
    November 01, 2018 - Providing Detail in Quality Reports for Those Who Want It Report sponsors always want to tell … More Information About Quality. … Measures of Quality for Different Health Care Settings . … about the meaning of the term “quality” and why it is important. … How we know that quality varies and is sometimes poor. How and why quality makes a difference.
  14. www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/ltc/mod3concl.html
    October 01, 2014 - The goal is to maintain and maximize quality of life, while minimizing each individual resident's risk
  15. www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/report/ref.html
    June 01, 2010 - Envisioning the National Health Care Quality Report. … Evaluation of the use of AHRQ and other quality indicators: final contract report. … Rockville, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; December 2007. 14. … Transforming insurance coverage into quality health care: voltage drops from potential to delivered quality … Selecting common measures of quality and systems performance.
  16. www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/resources.html
    March 01, 2017 - This guide provides LTC facility teams with strategies to implement a quality improvement program to … to successfully sustain improvements made during and after implementation of an infection prevention quality … Tools Tools are available in the following topic areas: Implement an Infection Prevention Quality
  17. www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/guides/implguide-pt1.html
    October 01, 2015 - country in On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI, an initiative funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  18. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/display/index.html
    May 01, 2019 - For related guidance, go to Tips on Designing a Quality Report . … Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Hospital Quality Model Report: Composites. 2009. … Less is More in Presenting Quality Information to Consumers. … Best Practices for Presenting Quality Data.
  19. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/choose/average.html
    March 01, 2016 - Comparing Quality Scores to a State or National Average Another strategy is to compare each … especially valuable in showing how well the entire group of providers is doing It is another driver for quality … EXAMPLE: Comparing to a State or National Average Title: Measuring the Quality of Pennsylvania's Commercial … Measuring the Quality of Pennsylvania's Commercial HMOs.
  20. www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/promote/act-early/choose.html
    July 01, 2011 - Choosing and Involving Partners in Promoting a Quality Report In an increasing number of States

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