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101. Past National Quality Strategy (NQS) Webinars | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2016 - six National Quality Strategy priorities Challenges and opportunities for health and health care quality … improvement as well as reducing health disparities moving forward Presenters: Nancy J. … Executive Lead for the National Quality Strategy Ernest Moy, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Officer, Center for Quality … Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Webinar Transcript Webinar

102. Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2021 - infection prevention strategies, CAUTI prevention, antibiotic stewardship), resident and family engagement, quality … improvement, and sustainability to guide your facility through implementing an improvement project to … a 3-year project, the AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI, which involved a national quality … improvement collaborative designed to reduce CAUTIs and enhance patient safety culture and practices

103. Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - Quality improvement efforts require staff commitment and buy-in. … Previous quality improvement studies have shown that staff are much more likely to support change if … many of these popular quality improvement approaches employ similar techniques. … Hospital Quality Improvement: Strategies and Lessons from U.S. Hospitals. … Hospital Quality Improvement: Strategies and Lessons from U.S.

104. Final Progress Report: Improving Medication Safety in Nursing Home Dementia Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Scope: An analysis of national- and state-level changes in use patterns following select quality improvement … Analyses aimed to inform quality improvement and patient safety initiatives through a clearer understanding … Quality-improvement initiatives to improve these practices face many barriers to success, including … improvement. … Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) and regulators also used metrics to focus their efforts.

105. Falls | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     The Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities This manual … presents an interdisciplinary quality improvement initiative for a falls management program. … , person-centered care and improving their fall care processes and outcomes through educational and quality … improvement tools.

106. AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery: Final Report (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2017 - improvement infrastructure; • Evaluate quality improvement resources and needs in your practice … ; and • List next steps for your quality improvement efforts. … • How do I tackle quality improvement challenges? … Engagement and stakeholders • What are common barriers to quality improvements? … There was a high burnout rate of quality improvement staff.

107. Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical Environment
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     May 01, 2017 - sustainability and spread Defining sustainability and its importance in quality … improvement Linking sustainability and spread Discussing barriers and solutions to sustainability Developing … AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery 21 Build systems for collecting process, outcome, and quality … improvement activity data Use data to continuously improve performance 4. … improvement, process improvement, and measurement techniques in regular staff seminars4 45 Million Lives

108. Sustainability Module: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - Sustainability focuses on integration, routinization, and continuation of a specific quality improvement … Due to the high level of variability in health care, quality improvement must be continuously integrated … Ask: Can anyone give an example of a quality improvement project you have participated in that followed … improvement, how they are linked together in the quality improvement process can be challenging to distinguish … The quality improvement process moves through several stages.

109. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - practices in the setting of existing FCR, including: physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, and quality … improvement personnel. … Multi-Center Medication Reconciliation Quality Improvement Study (MARQUIS) Toolkit includes a set of … Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism: A Guide for Effective Quality Improvement outlines … the latest evidence on how to lead a quality improvement effort to prevent hospital-acquired venous

110. About AHRQ's National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - practical tools, and other resources for researchers and evaluators, clinicians and clinical teams, quality … improvement experts, and healthcare decision makers to improve the quality and safety of care.

111. Small and Rural Critical Access Hospitals (Slide Presentation) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Safety/Quality Improvement is a Two-Part Process Slide 7. What is CUSP? Slide 8. … Improvement Specialist Return to Contents   Slide 4. … Safety/Quality Improvement is a Two-Part Process Image: Table showing Safety Quality/Improvement … Harm Fourth Row: Evidence Based Practice Evaluation Systems Analysis Process Development Quality … Improvement Tools PDCA Lean/Six Sigma Reliable System Process TCAB Other Education on the

112. How To Manage Change
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     August 24, 2017 - ADD Hospital Name Here Module 2 QI Change Process Change process strategies can be applied to other quality … improvement efforts: Hospital-acquired pressure injuries Catheter-associated urinary tract infections … Process Link the Fall Prevention Program with quality improvement. … This information helps you define resources your hospital has for quality improvement. … Improvement Organization Program.

113. Training-Tools-Facnotes (doc file)
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     May 01, 2017 - Sustainability focuses on integration, routinization, and continuation of a specific quality improvement … Due to the high level of variability in health care, quality improvement must be continuously integrated … Slide 9 SAY: Although sustainability and spread aim to further quality improvement, how they are … linked together in the quality improvement process can be challenging to distinguish. … The quality improvement process moves through several stages.

114. Role of the Nurse Manager, Unit Team Lead
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     July 07, 2012 - the leadership and management roles of the nurse manager Learn about key business and health care quality … improvement frameworks Learn about the quality improvement measures nurse managers use What Is a Nurse … hospital Serve as leaders and managers for their unit staff Can support their unit’s CUSP work with other quality … improvement frameworks Can measure the success of their CUSP intervention by using additional quality … improvement measures CUSP Tools Background Quality Improvement Team Information Form Culture Check-up

115. Sustainability Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - Slide 3: Overview Defining sustainability and its importance in quality improvement. … Establish a Sustainability Measurement Plan Build systems for collecting process, outcome, and quality … improvement activity data. … The Advocate Health System in Chicago participates in capacity building by providing education around quality … improvement, process improvement, and measurement techniques in regular staff seminars. 4 Slide 40

116. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
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     November 16, 2011 - – Master Clinical Pathway for Inpatient Falls Quality improvement/safety/risk manager, staff nurses, … have the resources for quality improvement (QI) in your organization. … Quality Improvement Process Assessment Question No Somewhat Yes (fully operational) Do you have … 2C: Current Process Analysis Background: Before beginning a quality improvement initiative, you need … improvement.

117. A Multipayer Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative in Pennsylvania (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2015 - For example, some practices regularly discussed quality improvement in meetings and shared performance … data with staff, while others focused less on quality improvement and performance reporting. … improvement efforts, and space modifications … improvement; and processes for monitoring progress and obtaining feedback … improvement; serve as health coaches; and augment the capacity of physicians and nurses so that

118. Facilitator-Notes (doc file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Due to the high level of variability in health care, quality improvement must be continuously integrated … improvement efforts. … ASK: Can anyone give an example of a quality improvement project you participated in that followed either … improvement data, and on how to use the data system. … improvement within their facility.

119. Webinar Transcript - Advancing the National Quality Strategy: An Introduction to the Stakeholder Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2016 - The challenge given to us by the Act was to create a national strategy for quality improvement that would … We hope it will be a catalyst and compass for a nationwide focus on quality improvement. … By establishing quantitative targets and tracking our performance over time, basic “Quality Improvement … These are some of the nation's most promising and transformative quality improvement programs, and we … We also provide illustrative examples that we see stimulating quality improvement for each of the priorities

120. Building the Workforce | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2022 - To ensure that research and quality improvement done in health care settings adheres to the highest ethical … Demonstrate knowledge of what activities constitute research as opposed to quality improvement activities … Competencies Demonstrate the ability to employ specific quality improvement methods to reduce avoidable … Demonstrate the ability to employ specific implementation science or quality improvement methods to study … improvement.