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2821. Connecticut Hospital Reduces Emergency Wait Time, Adverse Events Using AHRQ Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2018 - Connecticut Hospital Reduces Emergency Wait Time, Adverse Events Using AHRQ Tools Search All Impact Case Studies October 2018 Bridgeport Hospital, a 383-bed safety net hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, used two AHRQ tools to improve care in its facility. With AHRQ’s Door-to-Doc patient safety toolkit , …

2822. Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical Environment
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      May 01, 2017 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2012. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … (Tool 5 AHRQ)9 9Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 5). … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2012. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. June 2010.

2823. Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2023 - Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance Facilitator Notes Preventing CAUTI in the ICU Setting Slide 1 Say: In Module 1, we discussed the indications for an indwelling urinary catheter, the causes of catheter-associated urinary tract infections or CAUTI in the intensive care unit or ICU, as well as metho…

2824. Sampling, Weighting, and Synthetization Methodologies (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2023 - Implications of Data Quality in the Medicaid File Due to data quality issues in the Transformed Medicaid … For each crossing of state and domain category, we computed the measure of size (MOS) as: (Medicaid … / Nh) / .3, .20 / .3} SyH-DR 6 Methodologies Otherwise (i.e., nh ≥ 1000), MOSt = 1, MOSt – Measure … domain Nh – Population size for domain Thus, every person record in the extract had three applicable measures … Each person was then assigned an overall MOS, which was equal to the maximum of these three measures

2825. 7. Conclusions and Recommendations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2021 - 1960s, HSR has helped establish an evidence base to support decisionmaking and improvements in the quality … treated in hospitals or specialty clinics, and provide evidence that is critical for the delivery of high-quality … of the agency's research portfolio on systems-based outcomes (e.g., making health care safer, higher-quality … albeit to a lesser extent, as well as strong emphasis across agencies on the broad research domains of Quality … Moreover, many types of impact are by their nature difficult to systematically measure.

2826. Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (continued 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (continued 2) Text of the Act that reauthorizes the … former Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY. … the Director regarding— (A) priorities regarding health care research, especially studies related to quality … management measures, to assist public and private health care programs and providers in the appropriate

2827. Boarding-Response-To-Rep.-Dingell (pdf file)
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      December 31, 2024 - In response, I have charged the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to use its unique … CMS hosted a listening session about ED boarding at the 2023 CMS Quality Conference4 and recently hosted … CMS has identified meaningful connections between boarding and the CMS National Quality Strategy6 … t=124 6 https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/value-based-programs … and has an active internal ED boarding working group led by the Centers for Clinical Standards and Quality

2828. AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2016 - This report: Displays 4 weeks of trended weights for each resident. … Displays alternative significant weight loss measures: ≥2 percent From Previous Week. … Four consecutive monthly weights instead of weekly weights Weight values in weeks when weights were … Measure is also on the Nutrition Report. Weekly Meal Intake Average <50 Percent. … Quality improvement teams may want to access trended information to gain insight into the status of a

2829. Small-Conf Impact Final Report (doc file)
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      January 01, 2011 - 29/2013 Federal Project Officer: Robert McNellis Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … authorized by the Affordable Care Act, Section 5405 and assigned to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Key Words: Primary care, extension program, practice facilitation, quality improvement, patient-centered … Responsibility for the PCEP was assigned to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). … Director, Department of Vermont Health Access METHODS (Design, data sources/collection, interventions, measures

2830. CAUTI Prevention Implementation in a Community Hospital
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      March 01, 2009 - Lubomski, PhD Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety & Quality … Practice (TRiP) Summarize the evidence in a checklist Identify local barriers to implementation Measure … viewing it (e.g., staff meetings, individual admin hours) 33 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … American Hospital Association with contract funding provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

2831. COVID-19 Surges Tied to Higher Risks for All Hospital Patients, AHRQ Study Finds | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2024 - low-burden weeks to 97 per 1,000 in high-burden weeks, researchers found using Medicare data from AHRQ’s Quality … is recruiting healthcare organizations to use and evaluate AHRQ resources including Calibrate Dx , Measure … This service is provided to you at no charge by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ

2832. Comparative Health System Performance Initiative: Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2018, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2018 - Health Systems, 2018, Technical Documentation Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Introduction In 2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Comparative … systems serving low-income and potentially underserved populations, the list draws on two common measures … Product We used the 2018 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Database to construct measures … Provider-offered Medicare Advantage plans: recent growth and care quality.

2833. Implementation Guide for the Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2021 - stewardship team members and interventions that are relevant to long-term care settings, including ways to measure … presentation “Appropriate Collection of Microbiological Specimens” is to help frontline staff collect high-quality

2834. Saworksheet (pdf file)
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      April 02, 2025 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention Self-Assessment … Analysis of Pressure Ulcer Healing  Communication Practices Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Assessment Tool None of the above Other (specify) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Other (specify): ___________________________________   Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Report or brief with “Other” Other Key: CNA = certified nursing assistant; QAPI = Quality

2835. Spotlight on New Mexico | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2015 - highlights the major strategies, lessons learned, and outcomes from New Mexico's experience in the quality … With this support, SBHCs— Used quality reports to guide QI efforts. … the generation of quality reports for each center. … These quality reports were used to guide QI activities. Pursued QI projects. … the quality of health care for children ?

2836. AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2024 - AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are among the leading threats to patient safety, affecting one out of every 31 hospital patients at any one time. Over a million HAIs occur across the U.S. health care system every year, leading to the loss of tens of thousa…

2837. On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing Facilitator Training Implementation of the Healing Reports: Handouts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - We use the Braden Scale to identify persons at risk of pressure ulcers at admission but we don’t measure … Program Champion: Next on the list is the QAPI or quality improvement meeting. … QAPI or quality improvement review QA Coordinator Administrator – A Nurse Managers – A Nursing … Other         QAPI = Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement; APRN = advanced … X X       Quality improvement review Department team weekly review of rehab patients

2838. Puh-Implementation-Handouts (doc file)
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      July 01, 2016 - We use the Braden Scale to identify persons at risk of pressure ulcers at admission but we don’t measure … Program Champion: Next on the list is the QAPI or quality improvement meeting. … Other QAPI = Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement; APRN = advanced practice registered … by Month Root cause analysis for new pressure ulcers or ulcers at risk for delayed healing With Quality … X X Quality improvement review Department heads Rehab Department internal review

2839. Co-producing a Diagnosis
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      August 01, 2021 - patients to improve the accuracy, timeliness, and effective communication of our diagnoses to optimize the quality … Production measures? 9 Tips for Effective Listening Listen for meaning.

2840. Tool 5: How To Conduct a Postdischarge Followup Phone Call | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2025 - Overview Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital How CMS Measures … both for the patient's medical record and to allow hospital management to monitor the information for quality