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2361. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2016 - PROs under the Health Care Quality Improvement Program. … Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation. … Selecting quality and resource use measures: a decision guide for community quality collaboratives. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2010. … Improving quality of care.

2362. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
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      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. … Blood Culture Contamination: An Overview For Infection Control And Antibiotic Stewardship Programs Working … 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.

2363. Yale Center for Healthcare Innovation, Redesign, and Learning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2020 - This analysis was followed by the design, implementation, and evaluation of multiple studies and programs … A new measure tool to assess staff experience of intrahospital patient transfers. … Redesigned call-in templates in Epic, and Training programs for staff. 1, 4-6 CHIRAL conducted … A New Measure To Assess Staff Experience of Intra-Hospital Patient Transfers. … Improving the Quality and Safety of Inter-Hospital Transfers for Critically Ill Patients.

2364. Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements: Slide Presentation AHRQ Safety Program … for Surgery Slide 1: AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery—Sustainability Sustaining and Spreading Surgical … Image: The two sides of quality improvement work, Adaptive and Technical, are illustrated by two hands … Measure and make data-driven decisions. … Slide 12: References North Carolina Center for Hospital Quality and Patient Safety.

2365. VHA's Journey to High Reliability: Advancing Toward Zero Harm and Becoming a Learning Health System
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      September 26, 2023 - Cox, MD, MHA  Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Quality & Patient Safety  Edward E. … them (Leape, 2021, pg. 431) ‹#› 9 How does practicing high reliability play a pivotal role in quality … improvement methodology CPI (Lean) Training Knowledge Exchange Site A streamlined process to track and measure … practice sharing, ideas and knowledge exchange Fosters inclusion across facilities, VISNs and VHA Program … HRO Dashboard Pre-Decisional Deliberative Document Internal VA Use Only ‹#› 18 HRO Culture Measures

2366. 1. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - requires organizations to systematically collect relevant demographic data and to link these data to measures … measures at a level of detail that can identify variation in health and health care among at-risk groups … Department of Justice principles to prevent discrimination and to ensure access to federally funded programs … The HRET Toolkit, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), and the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH … extent to which members of minority groups are beneficiaries of and participants in federally-assisted programs

2367. CHCANYS Participation Guide (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/chcanys-qi-primer.pdf
      August 01, 2017 - Forum (NQF), Uniform Data System, Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Program, and Patient … A team’s appointed Quality Improvement/EHR Leader... …  Monitors and maintains the quality measure reports within CPCI and assists the team with the … Although this measure shows a 2 year look back for documentation of smoking status, the best practice … different cultures and health literacy levels  Making referrals to community-based resources, such as programs

2368. CUSP: A Framework for Success (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2013 - I was in Michigan, not at Hopkins but partnering with Hopkins, we insisted that we use standardized measures … Once you create a CUSP team, it's really useful to measure culture in the unit, and Chris talked about … decrease our number of non-indicated catheters because when you have to actually write it down and measure … as Chris said, this call today is to give you a bit more of a taste for it, but certainly as there’s programs … I would add the whole notion that everyone in the country is doing the SCIP measures, and performance

2369. Appendix A: Conceptual Framework | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2013 - Appendix A: Conceptual Framework Appendix B.1: Evidence on Effectiveness Appendix B.2: Use of Measures … The community resource element encompasses a range of organizations and programs that provide services … In the Atlas ( Clinical-Community Relationships Measures Atlas [ Dymek et al., 2013 ]), we pair the

2370. Using CAHPS Health Plan Survey Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2022 - among these organizations are purchasers that incorporate the survey scores into value-based purchasing programs … guidance on reporting the results of CAHPS surveys as well as more comprehensive guidance on reporting quality … comprehensive resource for health plans seeking to analyze and improve their performance in the domains of quality … selected for this case study because of its high scores on the "Health Plan Customer Service" composite measure … This case study focuses on the successful quality improvement methods employed by a health plan to improve

2371. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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      January 01, 2017 - definitions of the three VAE tiers, recognize the importance of monitoring VAE and objective outcome measures … Slide 2 [Type text] [Type text] [Type text] AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated … Commentary Slide Number and Slide Impact of Mechanical Ventilation ASK: Why focus this improvement program … Slide 6 Understanding the Impact of VAP SAY: The classic quality measure for mechanically ventilated … Slide 24 Inconsistency in VAP Diagnoses SAY: If you are trying to use VAP as your outcome measure

2372. Appendix H. Indwelling Urinary Catheter Maintenance Checklist | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2017 - Indwelling Urinary Catheter Maintenance Checklist AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term … catheter insertion depends on aseptic technique during catheterization, duration of catheter use, the quality … facility team with information on progress and barriers related to the catheter maintenance process measures … Next Steps Completed checklist can be forwarded to the quality improvement team for review and potential

2373. Facility Action Plan Template | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2017 - Facility Action Plan Template AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI … The purpose of this tool is to support quality improvement efforts by identifying opportunities for … medically necessary; providers maintaining status quo despite education on evidence-based practices; how to measure … Department to orient staff on safety culture; determining next steps once survey results come back for quality

2374. Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 3: How to Maximize Public Awareness and Use of Comparative Quality Reports Through Effective Promotion and Dissemination Strategies (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2010 - of the measure, scoring methodology, or time period covered. … Other times, reports cover different measures, e.g., one reports on one aspect of quality, such as patient … Identify the radio and TV programs—particularly local programs—that address health issues. … includes measures of health care for children. … used the full range of organizations discussed above and more to get out the word about the then-new program

2375. A Call To Action: Diagnostic Excellence In Rural Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2024 - These may not be available in rural hospitals, and application programs may want to consider addressing … application process or introducing alternative methods (e.g., streamlined applications, technical assistance programs … (e.g., value-based payment models, 89 global budgets 90,91 ) do not capture diagnostic accuracy or measure … This measurement is indispensable because benchmarking data are a cornerstone of longitudinal quality … Providers can also use and locally adapt existing patient safety and quality diagnostic resources to

2376. Connecting the Dots: Improving Unit Safety Culture to Stop HAI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - Slide 13 How Do You Measure Safety Culture? … measures at dept/unit level (Patient Safety Grade, Number of Events Reported) Comments Slide 17 … The AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: a tool to plan and evaluate patient safety programs … Slide 48 References Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … through the contract, “National Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to

2377. Exhibit 3. Comparison of fraction of all herniorrhaphy and total knee and hip arthroplasties reviewed by VASQIP | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - HCS = Veterans Administration Salt Lake City Health Care System; VASQIP = Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality … Improvement Program Text Description This figure graphically compares the percentage of cases reviewed … by the Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (vertical axis = y-axis) for hernia repair

2378. Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2013 - Overview Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital How CMS Measures … For this reason, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) contracted with Boston University … Monitoring and reporting progress on key measures and providing feedback. … You will use these rates to create clear goals and measure the RED's impact. … Step 11: Plan To Measure the Progress of RED Implementation Monitoring the implementation and impact

2379. Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2013 - Overview Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital How CMS Measures … For this reason, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) contracted with Boston University … Monitoring and reporting progress on key measures and providing feedback. … You will use these rates to create clear goals and measure the RED's impact. … Step 11: Plan To Measure the Progress of RED Implementation Monitoring the implementation and impact

2380. Error Disclosure Training and Organizational Culture | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2017 - more likely to foster opportunities for physicians to use knowledge and skills learned in training programs … Measures We measured error disclosure culture, safety culture, teamwork culture, intent to disclose … Organizations might also benefit from such training via effects from “train the trainer” programs that … , or disclosure culture scales? … Conclusion In summary, several different culture measures are sensitive to differences between those