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1661. Frameworks for Change and Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/guides/implguide-pt2.html
      October 01, 2015 - Interpreting CAUTI Data Trends The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program CUSP is … Role of the Nurse Manager : Explains the responsibilities and leadership role of nurse managers in quality … Culture Change Model Comparison Objective Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) … Produce More Change N/A When CAUTI prevention processes show success on one unit, expanding the program … and Physician Champion Potential These checklists, developed by Andrea Silvey, Ph.D., M.S.N., chief quality

1662. Auditing Your Briefings and Debriefings Process: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/audit-briefing-fac-notes.html
      December 01, 2017 - Auditing Your Briefings and Debriefings Process: Facilitator Notes AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery … Slide 3: Recapping Our Approach Say: This safety program focuses on two types of work: technical … With technical and adaptive efforts and an understanding of the science of safety, quality improvement … Slide 11: Example Briefing Audit Tool Say: The hospital’s policy is to measure specific clinical … That briefing is on the low end of the quality briefing spectrum.

1663. I. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2016 - The 2014 National Quality and Disparities Report showed that more Americans are getting safer care now … include the Joint Commission; the Institute for Safe Medication Practices’ Medication Event Reporting Program … (MERP); the Food and Drug Administration Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program (MedWatch … , logistic considerations, and analytic capabilities for consumer-specific event reporting systems, measures … control and utility to providers and other stakeholders seeking to improve the quality and safety of

1664. National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to Hold Hybrid Meeting on November 20, 2024 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2024 - National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to Hold Hybrid Meeting on … November 6, 2024 The National Advisory Council ( NAC ) for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Update on AHRQ’s Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund (PCORTF) Extension Program,  Therese ( … Umscheid, M.D., M.S., Director, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS), AHRQ; Jade … ., Chief Medical Officer, Office of the Director, AHRQ; Karen Chaves, M.H.S., Director, Division of Quality

1665. 45-Iscr-Pathway-Audit-Tool (xls file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/45-iscr-pathway-audit-tool.xlsx
      June 01, 2023 - The ISCR Audit Tool includes process measures from ISCR pathway, like early mobility and bowel preparation … , but teams should add or delete measures that are appropriate for their pathway. … Others use data registries such as the American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement … to refine the ISCR program. … The ISCR team quality improvement staff/data abstractor will collect the ISCR process measure compliance

1666. Clinical-Community Relationships Evaluation Roadmap (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2013 - Researchers and program evaluators should use and develop standard measures of relevant characteristics … of future research should be to better understand which are the most useful and relevant domains to measure … the ability to assess a body of existing research or programs. … measurement domains, a goal of future research should be to determine which domains are most important to measure … The candidate measure report underscores the need for standard, validated measures for researchers and

1667. Improving Health Information Technology (IT) Patient Safety: A Resource List for Users of the AHRQ Health Information Technology Supplemental Item Set (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/patient-safety-technology-resources.pdf
      May 01, 2023 - Contents Resources by Composite Measure 3 Composite Measure 1. … EHR System Support and Communication 3 Resources by Additional Measures 3 EHR Patient Safety and Quality … Resources by Additional Measures EHR Patient Safety and Quality Issues 1. … Contents Resources by Composite Measure Composite Measure 1. EHR System Training 1. … Resources by Additional Measures EHR Patient Safety and Quality Issues 1.

1668. Creating a Culture of Safety in the Ambulatory Surgery Environment: Implementation Guide (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/implementation.pdf
      May 01, 2017 - This guide recommends collecting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services2 quality care measures … effective means of first engaging staff and physicians in SSI and other surgical complications prevention programs … By continued assessment of process measures and outcome measures, the effectiveness of the solutions … Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting (ASCQR) Program, a pay-for-reporting, quality data program … Under this program, ASCs report quality of care data for standardized measures to receive the full annual

1669. 6-Gap-Analysis-Goal (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/6-gap-analysis-goal.docx
      June 01, 2023 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Gap Analysis and Goal-Setting Form Creating … sense of urgency is an important strategy to gather institutional support and provide engagement in quality … One of the best approaches is to evaluate current performance and identify deficiencies or outcome measures … Section A is to be completed by your department administrator or quality improvement (QI) personnel. … Section A: To be completed by your department administrator or by quality improvement personnel Directions

1670. Understanding SOPS® Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Ginsberg (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2022 - ® Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Ginsberg AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) Program … Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … • Data & Analytics: Generate measures and data to track and improve performance, and evaluate progress … engagement between clinicians and patients • Make the safe thing the easy thing to do 9 AHRQ’s SOPS Program … measurement, and improvement of patient safety culture within healthcare settings • Develops survey measures

1671. Appendix B. Products Produced By the National Evaluation Team | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2015 - National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program: Final Project Report Appendix … How are States and evaluators measuring medical homeness in the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program … How are CHIPRA demonstration States encouraging health care providers to put quality measures to work … How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States designing and implementing caregiver support programs? … measures?

1672. CAHPS Home Health Care Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2023 - Quality Measures from the CAHPS Home Health Care Survey The Home Health Care Survey produces the following … measures of patient experience: Care of patients. … Learn more about the global ratings and composite measures in this survey . … Survey This survey was developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) CAHPS program … The National Quality Forum endorsed this instrument as a measure of home healthcare quality in March

1673. AHRQ Practice Facilitation Training Modules: Additional Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/deliver-facilitation/modules/resources.html
      July 01, 2022 - prepare a brochure for your own facilitation program. … taught in the module Standardized Quality Measures. … Also visit NQF’s Core Quality Measurement Collaborative’s sets of measures that efficiently promote a … CMS Measure Inventory Tool . … CMS’ electronic Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM) Library .

1674. Resource List - AHRQ Nursing Home Survey (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/nursing-home/nursinghome-resourcelist.pdf
      April 01, 2023 - on AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network site, offers a database of patient safety education and training programs … The database identifies a number of characteristics of the programs, including clinical area, program … and learning objectives, evaluation measures, and cost. 3. … It relates to building capacity for patient safety education, planning programs, and designing courses … The On-Time Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care program is an innovative program designed to improve

1675. Appendix II: Technical Expert Panel and Federal Partners Group | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2010 - Environmental Scan of Measures for Medicaid Title XIX Home and Community-Based Services Appendix II … in the Scan Client Functioning Measures and Gaps Client Experience Measures and Gaps Program Performance … Measures and Gaps Other Potentially Important Measurement Areas and Sources Conclusion Glossary … and Tools Appendix IV: List of Measures Appendix V: Tested Measures by DRA Domain Appendix VI: … McCormick Administration on Aging (AoA) Greg Case Bob Hornyak Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

1676. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/overview-off-ventilator-fac-guide.html
      February 01, 2017 - In this module, we will introduce strategies and interventions, as well as adaptive and technical measures … The Michigan Keystone intensive care unit program was a multifaceted quality-improvement program that … Slide 21: Intervention 2—Daily Care Process Measures Say: Daily care process measures consist of … Another process measure involves the use of spontaneous awakening trials using a validated scale for … Be aggressive about identifying delirium through the processes of care, using effective delirium scales

1677. AHRQ National Advisory Council (NAC) Meeting Minutes from November 17, 2021 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2021 - They developed the following key findings: • Many quality measures for patient care exist, but not … Perhaps AHRQ could develop an overall framework for the issue of quality measures. Dr. … Edgman-Levitan noted that there is no national quality plan to advise on measures. Dr. … What data resources and quality measures are needed? Mr. … Also, within AHRQ are programs in education, data, and safety.

1678. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Oklahoma Cooperative (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2017 - Community-level interventions, such as smoking quit line referral and blood pressure medication assistance programs … This difficulty necessitated greater reliance on EHR-generated measures. … HIEO highlight the importance of developing national standards for health IT and, ideally, providing measure … well as produced a press release highlighting Oklahoma University’s involvement in the EvidenceNOW program … Oklahoma Cooperative for AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Grant [Oklahoma Hospital Association’s Health Improvement Program

1679. SOPS Ambulatory Surgery Center Webcast - GINSBERG (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/02-ASC-webcast-2023-0509-ginsberg.pdf
      January 01, 2023 - SOPS Ambulatory Surgery Center Webcast - GINSBERG AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) Program … Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ 5 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … • Data & Analytics: Generate measures and data to track and improve performance and evaluate progress … engagement between clinicians and patients • Make the safe thing the easy thing to do 8 AHRQ’s SOPS Program … improvement of patient safety culture within healthcare settings • Develops validated surveys and measures

1680. Introducing a New Database for Users of the CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS CAHPS) Survey - BROWN (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/hcbs-2021-webcast-quality-measures.pdf
      January 01, 2021 - Promote development and use of standardized, validated, and meaningful quality measures 2. … HCBS CAHPS is publicly available for voluntary use in HCBS programs as part of quality assurance and … • Accountable Entity: the operating entity responsible for managing and overseeing a specific HCBS program … 20 Other Important Considerations • The National Quality Form (NQF) has endorsed 19 composite measures … Measures Alignment and HCBS CAHPS® Survey HCBS Quality Framework CMS HCBS Quality Strategy Elements