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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/effectivetreatment/mhsa.html
June 01, 2018 - Chartbook on Effective Treatment
Acknowledgments
Effective Treatment
Effective Treatment Trends and Measures … and Disparities Report
Measures
Process: Treatment for depression. … Barriers to High-Quality Mental Health Care
Barriers to high-quality mental health care include: … Indicated strategies that address high-risk individuals (e.g., case management and parent support programs … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/diagnostic/DiagnosticSafety-flier.pdf
November 01, 2024 - Diagnostic Safety Research
1
Diagnostic Safety Research
at the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality … such as overtesting
contribute to excessive healthcare costs, but the additional tests do not improve quality … Diagnostic Safety), guide organizations to identify, analyze, and learn from diagnostic
safety events (Measure … diagnostic-safety/tools/engaging-patients-improve.html
https://www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/tools/measure-dx.html … https://www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/tools/calibrate-dx.html
https://www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/mcfarland-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Measure health professionals’ beliefs about organizational patient safety climate. … This program allows researchers to
analyze common themes across transcripts. … Measures
Staff attitudes regarding patient safety and medical fallibility were assessed through a self-report … Significance
Organizational work related to chemical dependency pertains in large measure to factors … Quality and safety by design. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 15(Suppl 1):i1-i3.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/thomas1-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Measures of the average angle are less dramatic. … Measurable outcomes of quality improvement using a daily
quality rounds checklist: Two-year prospective … Measurable outcomes of quality improvement in the trauma
intensive care unit: The impact of a daily quality … A multifaceted program to prevent ventilator-
associated pneumonia: Impact on compliance with preventive … measures*.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/sustaining-change-041415.pptx
April 16, 2013 - $552k
200 4 18,250 25% $276k
www.catheterout.org
Hospital finances
Unit - budget
Individual – quality … Educate
Environment
Evaluate
Context: Internal
Internal Environment
organization geared towards quality … Evaluation
Use data to assess progress:
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety
Infection rates
Process measures … Change
48
Effectiveness
Institutionalization
Capacity
Context
Engage
Educate
Environment
Evaluate
Program … through the contract, “National Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/profile-p7-bell.html
May 01, 2024 - AHRQ's Recent Primary Care Grants and Resources
Practice and Quality Improvement
Healthcare Systems … Appendix B: Other AHRQ Programs Relevant for Primary Care Research Audiences
7. … AHRQ Primary Care Priority Area Research to improve primary care, including regarding quality, access … Geographic proximity to primary care providers as a risk-assessment criterion for quality performance … measures.
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/process/study-section/hsqrrst.html
February 01, 2025 - Healthcare Safety and Quality Improvement Research (HSQR) Study Section
Roster of members of … Professor of Surgery, Vice-Chair for Quality New York Medical College Chief, Intra-Abdominal Transplantation … Research Scientist MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety Columbia, MD 21206 Anders, Shilo, Ph.D. * … University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy Lexington, KY 40536 Nahm, Eun-Shim, Ph.D., M.S. * Professor and Program … Rockville, MD 20857 Extramural Support Assistant Johnson, Keaira Program Analyst Division of Scientific
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/imp_audit_briefing_facnotes.docx
December 01, 2017 - With technical and adaptive efforts and an understanding of the science of safety, quality improvement … Slide 10
Example Briefing Audit Tool
SAY:
The hospital’s policy is to measure specific clinical items … That briefing is on the low end of the quality briefing spectrum. … These issues are addressed at surgeon meetings, management meetings, and quality improvement meetings … Slide 33
4
Audit Briefings
AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery – Implementation
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-case2.html
November 01, 2014 - This course is based on a popular leadership training program. … Lean might have been seen as a regulatory program if housed in the quality department or solely as a … cost-control program if housed in finance. … Where available, we provide outcomes data, including quantitative measures, provided by the hospital … Overall, the business case at the hospital was somewhat hard to measure beyond ROI because according
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www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/diagnosis-treatment/hospitals-clinics/10-tips/index.html
June 01, 2018 - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which has sponsored hundreds of patient safety research … Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism: A Guide for Effective Quality Improvement (AHRQ … Follow evidence-based principles for hospital design to improve patient safety and quality. … Measure your hospital's patient safety culture. … A reengineered hospital discharge program to decrease rehospitalization: a randomized trial.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/imp_opt_briefings.pptx
December 01, 2017 - Evidence Into Practice
Summarize the evidence in a checklist
Identify local barriers to implementation
Measure … Partner with senior executive
Learn from defects
Improve teamwork and communication tools
Prework: Measure … Review those defects with your CUSP team or a surgical site infection quality improvement team. … Office of Quality Monitoring. … But once they were in the packs, the quality was poor.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-webinar-jan-2017-transcript.pdf
January 01, 2017 - that many of you are familiar with CAHPS, so I'll just say a few words of background about the
CAHPS program … CAHPS is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, and the
CAHPS program develops … not directly measure. … For this field testing, we did not have the intensive interviews as a measure. … double coded with human coders with external review,
but there are good natural language processing programs
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/npsd-portfolios-summary-profile-2014.pdf
January 01, 2014 - The
Patient Safety Organization (PSO) program, which
was authorized by the Patient Safety and Quality … PSOs are asked to complete the PSO Profile Form
annually to provide additional detail on the PSO
program … This brief looks at the
Program Brief
Network of Patient Safety Databases
evolution of PSOs on the … PSOs also can measure
provider performance and patient outcomes that relate to
quality of care other … This program brief was prepared under Contract
No.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/candor/module3/mod03-gap-analysis-guide.pdf
April 01, 2016 - directors if there are residency
programs
Resident Physicians Selected physicians from various residency … programs
Vice-Presidents ■ Emergency department
■ Operating room
■ Surgery
■ Obstetrics
■ Other … Is a patient safety program in place?
g. … Is a patient safety program in place? … Have all practitioners agreed to participate in the
disclosure program?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy2/Strat2_Tool_6_Pres_TX_508.pptx
July 23, 2010 - – for example, working together with staff, clinicians, and leaders to improve policies, processes, programs … patients and family members to work together with health care staff to develop and evaluate policies and programs … outcomes — specifically, emotional health, symptom resolution, functioning, pain control, and physiologic measures … Many of the measures from the CAHPS Hospital Survey — particularly those related to patient-provider … [As you would like, you could show the following examples from YouTube of Teach Back]
NC Program on Health
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/Ways_To_Learn_More_508.docx
June 02, 2025 - ® Toolkit
The American Medical Association’s Ethical Force Program created this toolkit to help hospitals … collaborate with hospital staff, become involved in overall patient care, and participate in cancer programs … Advisory Council to represent patient and family perspectives during the development of organizational programs … Web site: http://www.chop.edu/service/family-centered-care/family-centered-care-programs-at-chop.html … This program reduces readmissions and encourages patients and families to take a more active role in
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Dingley_14.pdf
February 06, 2008 - The goals of the education program included:
• Provide consistent education for all members of the … Since few formal education programs across disciplines
include teamwork and communication strategies … This project provided the
opportunity to develop, implement, and evaluate an educational program and … interventions using
multiple measures across diverse patient care units. … Development of an instrument to measure
collaboration and satisfaction about care decisions.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/959.html
May 01, 2025 - Issue Number
959
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program … It is also designed to help primary care practices increase their capacity for quality improvement with … Register for Upcoming Webinars AHRQ Safety Program for HAI Prevention: CLABSI Recruitment Webinar s. … Learn how participants in the program will receive expert support to prevent infections and promote safety … This service is provided to you at no charge by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/hospitals/nicutoolkit.pdf
January 01, 2004 - Table of Contents
Overview: Improving the Quality … Telephone Survey
1
Overview: Improving the Quality … The aim of this program, which was originally developed and tested as the “Safe Passages”
program at … This step is done using a survey tool that was developed based on the Care Transitions
Measure of Eric … Funding was provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Grant Number
R18HSO17889-01.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/weinger-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - real time while observing real-world
PACU handovers.
6) Successfully deliver the handover training program … looking for changes in PACU culture, as evidenced by the performance of untrained handover dyads.
10) Measure … Traditional
specialty-centric clinical education programs are deficient in team training. … We used absolute rather than relative rating scales: ratings were based on the observers’
best-trained … We successfully delivered the
simulation-based handover training program to over 300 anesthesiologists