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381. Advancing Heart Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/index.html
     March 01, 2024 - system, a lack of resources to meet patient needs, and limited access to an infrastructure to support quality … improvement (QI). … initial assumptions—anticipated payment reform, health information technology systems that support quality … improvement, and adequate workforce—never materialized.  

382. Strategic Plan: Children as a Priority Population | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/mission/strategic-plan/CHStratPlan.html
     December 01, 1999 - Children need quality measures for choice and for assessing quality improvement, as well as effective … new quality improvement strategies. … Objective 1.3 Support extramural research to develop effective and feasible quality improvement strategies … The creation of critically needed tools such as quality measures and quality improvement strategies will … improvement research).

383. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Implementation Handbook) (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy2/Strat2_Implement_Hndbook_508.pdf
     April 30, 2013 - Step 1: Form a multidisciplinary team to identify areas for improvement As with any new activity or quality … improvement effort, planning and identifying areas of improvement are important parts of the process … Any quality improvement initiative requires setting aims.

384. AHRQ Views: Vanquishing Healthcare Disparities by Advancing Healthcare Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/891.html
     November 01, 2023 - Current vacancies include: Data Scientist , Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety/Division

385. Patient Safety Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/makinghcsafer.html
     June 01, 2022 - Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) were created by the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act to … The Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities presents an interdisciplinary … quality improvement initiative designed to assist nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered … care and improving their fall care processes and outcomes through educational and quality improvement

386. Maternity Care Performance Measurement Set (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/CHIPRA-BMI-Maternity-Care-Measures.pdf
     February 23, 2012 - To that end, the PCPI will work with quality improvement collaboratives and other initiatives to ensure … Fourth, many important measures are not captured in routine ways that would allow for quality improvement … These clinical performance measures are designed for practitioner and/or system level quality improvement … Performance measurement serves as an important component in a quality improvement strategy but performance … Measure Designation Measure purpose  Quality improvement  Accountability Type of measure  Process

387. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-mar2023.pdf
     July 14, 2023 - Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare March Meeting Summary Workgroup Goal: Established in response to Senate Report 115-150. The Senate Committee on Appropriations requested “AHRQ t…

388. Concluding Remarks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/confid-report/remarks.html
     March 01, 2016 - Faced with a need to implement quality improvement programs now, and spurred on by the motivation to

389. Development and Usability Testing of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Common Formats to Capture Diagnostic Safety Events (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/development-and-usability-testing-common-formats.pdf
     January 01, 2022 - Key Words: diagnostic safety, usability testing, patient safety, healthcare quality improvement, measurement … More than a decade ago, as authorized by the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient … Investing in skilled specialists to grow hospital infrastructure for quality improvement.

390. Strategies for Improving CAHPS Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS) Survey Scores (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20160315/rick-evans-slides.pdf
     March 15, 2016 - Strategies for Improving CAHPS Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS) Survey Scores Improving CG-CAHPS in an Academic Medical Center Rick Evans, MA Senior Vice President & Chief Experience Officer “Strategies for Improving CAHPS Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS) Survey Scores” A Webcast Presented by the AH…

391. AHRQ Views: Biden Administration Tackles Financial Strains on Healthcare Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/892.html
     December 01, 2023 - Current vacancies include: Data Scientist , Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety/Division

392. Infographic - Strategies Used by Effective Practice Facilitators (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/practice-facilitators-effectiveness-infographic.pdf
     September 01, 2022 - clarify practice goals and challenges Remain flexible about what practices choose to focus on Tailor quality … improvement activities to primary care practices’ needs, goals, and preferences Guide Primary Care

393. Helping Primary Care Teams Rediscover the Joy of Medicine | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/stories/in-action/virginia.html
     March 01, 2021 - clinics with medical administration, he makes an ideal detective to help practices get to the root of quality … improvement challenges. … He recognizes that some practices are interested in quality improvement but may not feel like they have

394. CAHPS Health Literacy Item Sets | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/literacy/index.html
     December 01, 2022 - professionals have succeeded in reducing the health literacy demands they place on patients, and as a tool for quality … improvement. … based on their survey results, providers could do the following: Identify specific topic areas for quality … improvement (e.g., communication about test results, medications, and forms).

395. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety: July Meeting Summary (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-jul2023.pdf
     November 03, 2023 - Agency Update AHRQ/Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety • Diagnostic Safety

396. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-neonatal/nclabsi7.html
     January 01, 2013 - the NCLABSI effort was the establishment of State teams with the capacity and capability to continue quality … improvement and patient safety efforts by leveraging existing State neonatal networks, and identifying … infections in their State, and have developed State perinatal collaboratives capable of performing future quality … improvement projects.

397. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/results/index.html
     March 01, 2023 - individual or team who use a range of approaches and methods to build the practices’ capacity for ongoing quality … improvement . … Practice Capacity for Quality Improvement: Findings As a primary care practice develops understanding

398. Supplement to Evaluation Highlight No. 7: How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States designing and implementing caregiver peer support programs? (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/supplhighlight07.pdf
     February 01, 2014 - specific pediatric practice to provide peer support for other caregivers and advice to the practice on quality … improvement activities Peer support recipients Caregivers with a child who has complex emotional … caregiver to compensate for time spent supporting other caregivers and advising the practice on quality … improvement activities http://www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/resources/highlight07

399. Module 1: Using the Comprehensive Long-Term Care Safety Modules: Applying Safety Principles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module1/mod1-slides.html
     March 01, 2017 - Support other quality improvement and safety initiatives in facilities.

400. Offices and Centers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/index.html
     September 01, 2023 - Director Phone: (301) 427-1406 Fax: (301) 427-1276 Email: joel.cohen@ahrq.hhs.gov Center for Quality … Improvement and Patient Safety Craig Umscheid, M.D., M.S., Director Phone: (301) 427-1571 Fax: (301