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101. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: A Profile | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2022 - curriculum and tools with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which has tasked the Nation's Quality … Improvement Organizations to disseminate this training further throughout the country. … In “ Making Health Care Safer ,” Jeff Brady, M.D., M.P.H., former Director of AHRQ's Center for Quality … Improvement and Patient Safety, discusses moving toward a safer health care system.  

102. Patient Safety and Quality Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - Education & Training Resources Patient Safety and Quality Measures Quality … improvement measurement tools and information, including AHRQ Quality Indicators Hospital Toolkit, ambulatory

103. AHRQ Summit and Roundtable on Research Priorities for Patient Safety Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health and Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Search all AHRQ sites Search small Search Menu …

104. 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

105. 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

106. 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

107. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2021 - Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities is an interdisciplinary … quality improvement initiative to assist nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered … care and improving their fall care processes and outcomes through educational and quality improvement

108. 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

109. 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.

110. 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.

111. 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.

112. Transforming Primary Care Practice in North Carolina (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2015 - Support Program (previously known as the Improving Performance in Practice Program) is a statewide quality … improvement (QI) initiative that provided primary care practices with onsite improvement coaches, … visit: http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpcbib.html#nc or www.ncfahp.org/quality-improvement

113. 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.

114. 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.

115. 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

116. Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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 … improvement project. … Tools Tools are available in the following topic areas: Implement an Infection Prevention Quality … Improvement Project Improve Safety Culture Engage Residents and Families Practice General Infection

117. 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

118. 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

119. 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.

120. Module 2: How To Manage Change—Training Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2017 - Y/N Presenter Tool 2A: Interdisciplinary Team     Tool 2B: Quality Improvement Process   … Tool 2B: Quality Improvement Process (completed by the Implementation Team Leader or designee). … Links to quality improvement expertise—someone with expertise in systematic process improvement methods … and team facilitation from the Quality Improvement or Performance Improvement Department. … The purpose of the Quality Improvement Process Tool (2B) is to link the Fall Prevention Program with