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2481. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Monitoring for Perinatal Safety: Electronic Fetal Monitoring (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/safe-electronic/tool_safe-e-fetal-monitoring.docx
      May 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Monitoring for Perinatal Safety: Electronic Fetal Monitoring … Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses, http://www.awhonn.org Search: “fetal heart monitoring,” · Perinatal Quality … universities, academic medical centers, and research centers may also offer courses and certification programs … This might include an existing medical peer-review process or review by a perinatal safety or quality … rapid response, and · when regrouping to determine plan of care if patient does not respond to initial measures

2482. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/appendix-n-part1-transcript.docx
      June 02, 2025 - Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Implementation … the equipment needed, and they will specify the type of cleaning solution to use and also a method to measure … Make sure you have a good water quality going into the rinse cycle. … Tap water is fine, but, again, it needs to be a good quality tap water. … N-6 6 AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Implementation Guide Appendix N – Endoscope Transport

2483. Module 2: Component Kit (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/huddles/huddles-component-kit.docx
      May 01, 2017 - Module 2: Component Kit AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Management Practices for Sustainability … Module 2: Daily Huddles AHRQ’s Safety Program for Ambulatory Daily Huddle Component Kit Contents … ambulatory surgical centers, go to www.ahrq.gov/HAIambsurgery for information about the AHRQ Safety Program … Getting to Standard Work in Health Care: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care. … Measures of the PDSA success: (1) ready to run daily huddle tomorrow and (2) at least one suggestion

2484. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 27: Helping Practices Optimize EHRs for Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation and Quality Improvement (pdf file)
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      January 15, 2025 - Some facilitation programs use a team approach. … If you are working as part of a program, your program director should provide these resources for you … and a minimum of three additional clinical quality measures. … If so, selecting these measures can support not only meaningful use but also the quality improvement … When reports on clinical quality measures are produced for meaningful use, are the findings incorporated

2485. SDOH Environmental Scan - Updated April 29, 2021 (xls file)
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      April 29, 2021 - Census Bureau Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) Program https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys … is not part of the calculation of the overall index itself, but there is an available dataset that measures … Social capital is an optional component on the website (which can be included in the index) that measures … N Y* Y 1996 to present Y Data are based on a calculated index based on daily air quality measure. … Environmental Protection Agency Air Quality - Cities and Counties https://www.epa.gov/air-trends/air-quality-cities-and-counties

2486. Final Progress Report: Physician Organization and the Efficiency of Surgical Specialty Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/miller-birkmeyer-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Adjusted rates for measures of quality, as well as price-standardized total and component episode payments … Our measures of technical quality included operative mortality, postoperative complications, and readmissions … In terms of quality measures, unadjusted rates for the individual procedures ranged from 0.6% (hip replacement … Adjusted rates for measures of quality were generally similar for patients treated in IDS versus non-IDS … We could not measure and adjust for all of these important contextual factors.

2487. Case Example #3: Fairview Health Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2019 - Quality improvement (QI), care coordination, and the MTM pharmacy program, among others, are overseen … Clinic leadership is ultimately accountable for quality and routinely receives quality reports from central … Quality data are updated monthly. … Quality reports contain a compilation of all measures Fairview is required to report and are used by … measures such as for asthma, diabetes, and ischemic vascular disease.

2488. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Sample Scenario for Shoulder Dystocia In Situ Simulation (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/situ/simulation_shoulder-dystocia.docx
      May 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Sample Scenario for Shoulder Dystocia In Situ Simulation AHRQ … Safety Program for Perinatal Care Sample Scenario for Shoulder Dystocia In Situ Simulation Sample … For example, after team measures BP, the BP value is provided to team on a card. … AHRQ Publication No. 17-0003-22-EF May 2017 Sample Scenario AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care

2489. July 17 Webinar: Empower Patients Through Digital Healthcare Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2025 - Issue Number 963 AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program … Implementing the Patient Safety Structural Measure: Webinar Recording Now Available . … By proactively addressing UI, practices can improve quality of life for patients, reduce stigma, and … ET:  Understanding the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure Requirements for Hospitals . … This service is provided to you at no charge by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ

2490. Windows of Opportunity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-sustainability-centers-of-excellence6.html
      April 01, 2025 - Publicly reported quality, safety, and patient experience data or scores.  … A quality award that the health system is striving to win.  … Can the CE engage patients and the community in quality and safety improvement?  … 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program … strategy after aligning its mission to that of healthcare systems seeking to comply with CMS’s HRRP program

2491. Available Comprehensive Quality Improvement Guides (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/g1_pdi_availablecomprehensiveqiguides.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - Available Comprehensive Quality Improvement Guides Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators … How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety i Tool G.1 Available Comprehensive Quality Improvement … As you work to improve the quality of care in your hospital and use the AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators … Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety … improvement-guide/improvement-guide.html The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) program

2492. Chapter 5 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/vision/resources/vision5.html
      October 01, 2002 - Quality of life of low-vision patients and the impact of low-vision services. … Design of the low vision quality-of-life questionnaire (LVQOL) and measuring the outcome of low-vision … The reliability of the Functional Independence Measure: a quantitative review. … Creating measures of rehabilitation outcomes for people who are visually impaired: The FIMBA project. … Implementing a visual rehabilitation program.

2493. ChristianaCare Used AHRQ Resources to Reduce Blood Infections, Expedite Stroke Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2020 - All Impact Case Studies July 2020 ChristianaCare used AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program … (CUSP) to significantly reduce bloodstream infections and AHRQ's TeamSTEPPS program to expedite emergency … To keep patient safety top of mind and regularly measure employees' perceptions of patient safety within … our health system," said Ann Principe, D.N.P., M.B.A., R.N., director in ChristianaCare's Office of Quality … Infections (CLABSI), Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Outcomes, Patient Safety, Quality

2494. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 13. Alarm Fatigue (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2020 - measures related to alarm fatigue. … The following section reviews the applicable studies in more depth by measure type. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Tested hypotheses using PDSA (plan, do, study, act) measures. … Tested hypotheses using PDSA (plan, do, study, act) measures.

2495. Step 2: Determine Whom To Engage | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2019 - from the CMS-funded national evaluation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act … of 2009 (CHIPRA) Quality Demonstration Grant Program. … Massachusetts is focusing on three topic areas: care coordination, communication and confidentiality, and measures … with existing grant programs and the Federation of Families chapters in which the caregivers were actively … Learn how CHIPRA quality demonstration States are using quality reports to drive health care improvement

2496. Appendix C: Example Implementation Plan | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2018 - This was done only as a precautionary measure. … this approach seemed to allow us to address the issue with expediency, while simultaneously developing programs … Lock Administration Quality Manager G. … Performance Measures Performance Measures (check all that apply) ED Arrival to ED Departure

2497. Module 1 Implementation Guide: Welcome to the TAKEheart Initiative and an Overview of the Benefits of Increasing Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2018 - measures scores and value-based payment programs • TAKEheart is building on this evidence base to … Thomas, G Balady, G Banka, et al. 2018 ACC/AHA Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Cardiac … report by the American College of Cardiology summarizes performance and quality measures for cardiac … Its goal is to provide practitioners and institutions with tools to measure quality of care and identify … Cardiac Performance Measure Compliance in Outpatients.

2498. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Safe Medication Administration: Magnesium Sulfate (doc file)
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      May 30, 2013 - AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Safe Medication Administration: Magnesium Sulfate AHRQ Safety … L), and the same magnesium level would be reported using different numbers depending on the unit of measure … This might include an existing medical peer-review process or review by a perinatal safety or quality … This might include an existing medical peer-review process or review by a perinatal safety or quality … a rapid response, · when regrouping to discuss plan of care if patient fails to respond to initial measures

2499. Final Progress Report: Call Light Responsiveness and Effect on Inpatient Falls and Patient Perceptions (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/tzeng-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - The payments will be based either on how well the hospitals perform on certain quality measures or how … much the hospitals' performance improves on certain quality measures from their performance during … All Patient Refined-Diagnostic Related Group (APR-DRG) Case Mix Index (CMI; sum of all DRG relative weights … Available at: http://www.healthcare.gov/center/programs/partnership/safer/injuries.html. … Overview: Hospital Value-based Purchasing Program.

2500. 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 - Lisa oversees UCLA’s ambulatory staff training program called BRITE. … 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 … Carla Zema Great results from a wonderfully designed program. … You can also access other quality improvement resources such as case studies detailing the use of the