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221. Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/a3_combo_selfassessment.pdf
     May 12, 2016 - improvement actions. … improvement … • We have undertaken quality improvement initiatives to address performance on one or more of … Role in Quality Improvement Please indicate which of the following describe your role in quality improvement … efforts at your institution (check all that apply) Senior leadership Quality improvement team

222. Primary Care Extension in Oklahoma: An Evidence-Based Approach to Dissemination and Implementation of Innovations (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/impact-profile-ok.pdf
     April 01, 2015 - Startup grants offered incentives for quality improvement work in the practices. … County-based efforts catalyzed group quality improvement among local physicians and brought diverse … Primary Care Extension in Oklahoma helped practices construct a quality improvement process and brought …  Arkansas: Arkansas currently has two quality improvement initiatives active at the State level that … Arkansas has a strong quality improvement environment in terms of reimbursement incentives, support

223. West Virginia State at a Glance (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/wvstateataglance.pdf
     March 01, 2012 - improvement strategies for children in a total of 18 States under five broad categories.1 West Virginia … improvement based on data from the 2009–2010 National Survey of Children’s Health and the 2011 National … improvement of a State’s own design. … West Virginia will provide coaching and technical assistance in quality improvement approaches, the … improvement processes.

224. Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/standalone_pdi_casestudy.pdf
     December 01, 2015 - Hospital Context for Quality Improvement Focus The nursing staff at Lurie Children’s Hospital had … improvement initiatives. … improvement work across divisions. … improvement process. … Abstract Hospital Context for Quality Improvement Focus How the Pediatric QI Toolkit Was Used

225. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Northwest Cooperative (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/cooperatives/evidencenow-executive-summary-northwest.pdf
     November 01, 2017 - Provide comprehensive practice support to build quality improvement (QI) capacity within these practices … Practice facilitators administer the Quality Improvement Change Assessment (QICA), a tool developed … http://www.escalates.org Northwest Cooperative Update The Quality Improvement Capacity Assessment … improvement capacity. … Study protocol for “Healthy Hearts Northwest” a 2 X 2 randomized factorial trial to build quality improvement

226. AHRQ National Advisory Council to Meet Virtually on July 14 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/national-advisory-meeting-july-14.html
     July 01, 2021 - Populations, and Director, Office of Minority Health; Jeffrey Brady, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Quality … Improvement and Patient Safety; Arlene S. … Discussion about patient safety opportunities by Jeffrey Brady, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Quality … Improvement and Patient Safety and Erin Grace, M.H.A., Deputy Director, Center for Quality Improvement

227. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States working together to improve the quality of health care for children? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight06.html
     January 01, 2014 - Applying health information technology (IT) for quality improvement. … To increase efficiency by having States build the infrastructure for quality improvement through small … States that are implementing similar quality improvement projects often coordinate their work very deliberately … Some partnerships include States with relatively equal levels of quality improvement experience and capacity … Illinois is also using a pediatrician on Florida’s staff with expertise in asthma-related quality improvement

228. How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States encouraging health care providers to put quality measures to work? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight05.html
     November 01, 2013 - Applying health information technology (IT) for quality improvement. … The Highlight compares and contrasts two projects that use quality measures to drive quality improvement … Improvement Strategy Well-child visits in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th years of life. … In PDSA cycles, the practices define a quality improvement aim related to a Child Core Set measure, test … Improvement Strategy Ambulatory care: emergency department (ED) visits.

229. EvidenceNOW Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/index.html
     September 01, 2022 - help primary care practices implement the latest evidence into practice and improve their capacity for quality … improvement. … system, a lack of resources to meet patient needs, and limited access to an infrastructure to support quality … improvement (QI). … Learn how external quality improvement support helps primary care practices improve the way they work

230. Baylor Scott & White Health: Building a Foundation for Continuous Improvement (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/lhs/lhs_case_studies_bsw.pdf
     April 01, 2019 - system’s first chief quality officer, and began to build the infrastructure to support continuous quality … improvement. … To encourage this bottom-up innovation, Baylor Scott & White holds an annual quality improvement summit … For example, Baylor Scott & White Health launched a sepsis quality improvement initiative several years

231. Path to Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/precautions/guide/path.html
     September 01, 2020 - Use Module 14: Creating Quality Improvement Teams and QI Plans from the AHRQ Practice Facilitation Handbook

232. Defining the PCMH | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/care-coordination/pcmh/define.html
     August 01, 2022 - Disseminating Evidence into Practice Health IT and Digital Health Health Literacy Quality … Improvement Data Resources Tools and Resources Research Communities Reports … Quality and Safety The primary care medical home demonstrates a commitment to quality and quality improvement … Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators (PDF, 112 KB) Using Health Information Technology … to Support Quality Improvement in Primary Care (PDF, 796 KB) Page last

233. State at a Glance: Florida | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/fl.html
     March 01, 2019 - Testing an approach to quality improvement of the State's own design. … In conjunction with Illinois, Florida will support collaborative quality improvement projects to improve … Testing an Approach to Quality Improvement of Florida's Own Design This project's activities will be … Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative , which is focused on population-based, data-driven perinatal quality … improvement.

234. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/index.html
     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

235. New AHRQ SOPS™ Health Information Technology Patient Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals - Overview (Brady) (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/healthitwebinar/sops-hit-webcast2-brady.pdf
     August 06, 2018 - Overview of AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ Jeffrey Brady, MD, MPH Director, Center for Quality … Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Rear Admiral, Assistant … between clinicians and patients • Make the safe thing the easy thing to do 6 AHRQ’s Center for Quality … Improvement and Patient Safety (CQUIPS) • Conducts programs that focus on: – Patient Safety Research … Improvement and Patient Safety (CQUIPS) What is Patient Safety Culture?

236. Discharge Instructions Quality: How the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital Improved their Electronic Template for Family/ Caregiver Written Discharge Instructions (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/iowa-case-study.pdf
     January 29, 2021 - Hospital Context for Quality Improvement Focus UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital was one of eight … from the Hospitalist Principal Investigator (PI) and a doctorate nurse clinician with expertise in quality … improvement specifically post- discharge patient outcomes. … Dr Manges was able to support the quality improvement and conceptualization of the work, and able to

237. Florida State at a Glance (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/flstateataglance.pdf
     March 01, 2012 -  Testing an approach to quality improvement of the State’s own design. … In conjunction with Illinois, Florida will support collaborative quality improvement projects to improve … improvement of a State’s own design. … Testing an Approach to Quality Improvement of Florida’s Own Design This project’s activities will be … improvement.

238. Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/index.html
     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

239. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/deliver-facilitation/curriculum/introduction.html
     September 01, 2021 - primary care by supporting widespread adoption of new models of care delivery and the use of continuous quality … improvement to improve health care outcomes. … Core competencies include quality improvement techniques and measurement skills.

240. Lessons from the Field: Using Pediatric Quality Measures across Multiple Levels (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/lessons/lessons-using-pqms.pdf
     January 01, 2016 - One of the key informants (KI) – a state director of quality improvement – emphasized the importance … Driving quality improvement at the state level seems to hinge, at least in part, on reporting and sharing … Key Takeaways ‣ To facilitate quality improvement across levels, it is important to understand the … ◦ Ensure that all relevant patients are reflected in targets for quality improvement. … The Joint Commission journal on quality improvement, 23(3), 135-147.