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5121. A Model of Care Delivery to Reduce Falls in a Major Cancer Center (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Kline_32.pdf
      March 03, 2008 - this mean a financial cost to the institution, the insurance carrier, and/or patient, but associated quality … the day prior to their scheduled discharge—were presented to illustrate clearly the financial and quality-of-life … level how a serious injury extends the 7 patient’s hospital stay and negatively affects their quality … The staff was instructed to carefully consider what safety measures were in place to assure patient … The index of ADL: A standardized measure of biological and psychosocial function.

5122. Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors, Volume 2: Eliciting Patient Narratives (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dxsafety-patient-experience-vol2.pdf
      July 01, 2023 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2023. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2020. … Washington DC: National Quality Forum; November 2020. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2020. … What can patients tell us about the quality and safety of hospital care?

5123. Healthteamworks (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/system/pfcasestudies/healthteamworks.pdf
      August 01, 2014 - As part of its ongoing commitment to practice improvement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … practices become patient-centered medical homes, but they can also help practices in more general quality … This stage includes classroom learning as well as visits to practices engaged in quality improvement … HealthTeamWorks primarily measures trainees’ learning through pre-training and post- training assessments … Evaluation and internal quality improvement of the training program As a quality-focused organization

5124. Organizational Embrace of CUSP to Improve Patient Safety (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/embrace.html
      April 01, 2013 - Yancy Phillips is the Vice President of Quality and Care Management at Holy Cross. … Patient safety and quality have been a core foundation of his leadership philosophy. … We’ve had the good fortune to be recognized as a top-quality performer in 2010 by the Joint Commission … We have not yet gotten the full measure of effect out of that protected time. … Just like in any organization, if you don’t track it, you can’t measure your results.

5125. Final Progress Report: Systems Approach for Improving Region-Wide Patient Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/sirio2-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Although data quality can be standardized across all hospitals, differences in users and characteristics … Methods Study Design/Data Sources/Collection/Interventions/Measures/Limitations. … NIs have been long recognized as a critical problem affecting the quality of healthcare and a principal … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (publication number 05- 0021-3 (Vol. 3)); … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (publication number 05- 0021-2 (Vol. 2));

5126. Designing & Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care The Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions Webinar 6
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/aspire_webinar6/aspire_webinar6.pptx
      June 02, 2025 - Brevity: No more than 1 page; the essential summary information in a way that saves time and promotes quality

5127. Final Progress Report: APPLIED STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY (ASIPS) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/pace-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - what little we do know about primary care errors is not particularly helpful in developing preventive measures … MEASURES PSRS Reports The ASIPS primary measure was reports submitted to the reporting system. … Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety 2005;31:(2)81-89. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Feb 2005:63-73. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Feb 2005:133-147.

5128. AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cpi/about/impact/ahrq-works.pdf
      April 01, 2017 - research and practice to achieve these goals: • Keep patients safe • Help doctors and nurses improve quality … AHRQ: BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 2 Goal: Help Doctors and Nurses Improve Quality … AHRQ develops tools for doctors and nurses to improve safety, quality, and patient engagement in … Their quality and safety efforts reduced readmissions by 22 percent in 18 months, saving approximately … AHRQ is committed to harnessing the power and promise of health information technology to improve quality

5129. Facilitator-Notes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module1/facilitator-notes.docx
      March 01, 2017 - This overview module explains the purpose of the toolkit and how it can be used in your facility’s quality … SLIDE 3 SAY: Why is infection prevention and quality improvement important? … Why are we doing another quality improvement project? SLIDE 4 SAY: Why is this work important? … the highest quality of care possible. … Together, staff and leadership must work towards building safety and quality into the system.

5130. Module 1: Using the Comprehensive Long-Term Care Safety Modules: Applying Safety Principles: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module1/mod1-facguide.html
      March 01, 2017 - Explain how the LTC Safety Modules supports other quality and safety tools . … Say: Why is infection prevention and quality improvement important? … Why are we doing another quality improvement project? Slide 5: Is Your Facility Safe? … the highest quality of care possible. … Together, staff and leadership must work towards building safety and quality into the system.

5131. Shared Learning and the Drive to Improve Patient Safety: Lessons Learned from the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Sirio.pdf
      June 15, 2003 - statistics are used to determine improvements in safe practices compared with baseline performance measures … A report of the Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. … Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. … Crossing the quality chasm: a new health system for the 21st century. … Health professions education: a bridge to quality.

5132. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/156-what-are-4es.pptx
      October 01, 2024 - Environmental cleaning quality is inconsistent. The CLABSI prevention bundle is not up to date. … Usage of the computerized decision support system is tracked as a key process measure. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/assemble/index.html … Preventing Adult Blood Culture Contamination: A Quality Tool For Clinical Laboratory Professionals. … Reducing blood culture contamination rates: a systematic approach to improving quality of care.

5133. Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Medication Errors: The New York Experience (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Duthie.pdf
      January 01, 2004 - The medication panel used the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) model employed in the … Consequently, there is a lack of evidence to measure the impact of the changes made at the time of submission … Next steps include educational initiatives to address identified weaknesses in the RCAs and to measure … A report of the Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. … Summary of information submitted to MEDMARXSM in the year 2002: the quest for quality.

5134. Creating an Effective Customer Service Training Program (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/podcasts/CreatinganEffectiveCustomerServiceTrainingProgram20120501Transcript52312.pdf
      May 01, 2012 - As well as some of the factors that are important to any quality improvement effort such as leadership … we want them to continue to do, and we also ask managers to find strategies of how they’re going to measure … You can also access other quality improvement resources such as case studies detailing the use of the

5135. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 16. Venous Thromboembolism (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/venous-thromboembolism-1.pdf
      March 01, 2020 - improvement efforts, such as through programmatic measure inclusion and harm area prioritization in … Assurance including measures for VTE treatment and prevention in their hospital accreditation and certification … aAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Aspirin combined with mechanical measures to prevent venous thromboembolism after total knee arthroplasty … Aspirin combined with mechanical measures to prevent venous thromboembolism after total

5136. Studies in Meta-analyses (continued, 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/references/meta/meta02.html
      October 01, 2014 - Measures of affect and nicotine dependence predict differential response to smoking cessation treatments

5137. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2020, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/2020-Compendium-TechDoc.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - Health Systems, 2020, Technical Documentation Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … INTRODUCTION In 2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Comparative … Definition of a Health System The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) uses the following … systems serving low-income and potentially underserved populations, the systems list draws on two common measures … Product We used the 2020 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Database to construct measures

5138. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2021, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/2021-Compendium-TechDoc.pdf
      January 01, 2021 - Health Systems, 2021, Technical Documentation Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Introduction In 2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Comparative … Definition of a Health System The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) uses the following … systems serving low-income and potentially underserved populations, the systems list draws on two common measures … Product We used the 2021 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Database to construct measures

5139. Final Progress Report: Risk-Informed Clinical Network for Safe Pediatric Emergency Transfers (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/woods-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - This assessment provided a measure of the quality of communication regarding the transfer patient’s … effectiveness of communication, decision making, and placement in the context of both simulation and actual measures … Quality and Safety in Healthcare. 2007;In press. 18. Perry S. … Quality and Safety in Healthcare. 2004;13:330-334. 27. … Quality and Safety in Healthcare. 2005;14(6):401-407. 37.

5140. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2022, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/compendium/2022-Compendium-TechDoc.pdf
      January 01, 2022 - Health Systems, 2022, Technical Documentation Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Introduction In 2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Comparative … Definition of a Health System The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) uses the following … systems serving low-income and potentially underserved populations, the systems list draws on two common measures … Product We used the 2021 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Database to construct measures