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3101. Module 3: Staff Empowerment: Material Use Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module3/guide.html
      March 01, 2017 - Module 3: Staff Empowerment: Material Use Guide AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term … how staff empowerment contributes to a culture of resident safety, leading to improved outcomes and quality

3102. 2016 CAHPS Health Plan Survey Database Chartbook (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2016_hp-chartbook.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - Statements in the report should not be construed as endorsement by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … the ORS public site and the submitter’s site present CAHPS Health Plan Survey results for composite measures … submitted to the CAHPS Database by various survey sponsors, including State Medicaid agencies, CHIP programs … , individual health plans, and the Medicare program. … For questions and composites based on 4-point response scales (i.e., "always", "usually", "sometimes

3103. Broadening the Scale and Impact of a Comprehensive Long COVID Clinic to Serve Diverse Patient Groups With Multidisciplinary Care and Research Access (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/coronavirus/long-covid-care-network/uc-sf-grantee-profile.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - and Improve Outcomes for Underserved Populations With Long COVID The UCSF OPTIMAL Long COVID Clinic Program … between clinical services, community-based organizations, and federally-funded Long COVID research programs … The clinic will partner with these CBOs to implement mutual learning programs, community education … including the Long-term Impact of Infection with Novel Coronavirus (LIINC) cohort and the NIH RECOVER program … while ensuring that research findings are rapidly translated into practice, improving access to and quality

3104. Low Tidal Volume Ventilation: Introduction, Evidence, and Implementation: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/technical/ltvv-intro-slides.html
      February 01, 2025 - Volume Ventilation: Introduction, Evidence, and Implementation: Slide Presentation AHRQ Safety Program … for Mechanically Ventilated Patients Slide 1: AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients … pressures should be measured, documented and targeted to be no more then 30 cm H 2 0 (too difficult to measure … CI = Confidence interval Slide 32: Quality Gap Large V t still commonly used in ICUs: 5 Up to 18 cc/ … Slide 46: Closing Gaps in Quality Audit your intervention practices.

3105. AHRQ Views: Commemorating 35 Years as an Independent Science Agency | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/904.html
      March 01, 2024 - Issue Number 904 AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program … March 14 National Advisory Council Meeting To Include Program Updates and Introduce New Members . … Millenson, president, Health Quality Advisors, LLC. Joseph M. … Scaling the EQUIPPED medication safety program: traditional and hub-and-spoke implementation models . … Safety/Division of Quality Measurement and Improvement .

3106. Labor and Delivery Unit Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/labor-delivery-unit/ldusafety_facguide.pdf
      May 01, 2017 - Labor and Delivery Unit Safety AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care Labor and Delivery Unit Safety … Slide 2 SAY: This bundle in the AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care, or SPPC, focuses on key … Independent checks help guarantee the patient receives the highest quality of care possible. … • Many externally developed examples are available as part of perinatal safety and quality initiatives … review might include an existing medical peer review process or review by a perinatal safety or quality

3107. Using Root Cause Analysis to Help Practices Understand and Improve Their Performance and Outcomes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-11-root-cause-analysis.pdf
      December 27, 2021 - McNellis, M.P.H., P.A., Agency for Health Research and Quality Janice L. … It is an essential tool for quality improvement. … Excel or a statistical software program … Based on this assessment, the practice began discussing the idea of implementing a patient education program … especially important if, for example, performance assessment finds that care is not meeting important HEDIS measures

3108. AHRQ Hospital Financial Measures Database Methodology Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/hfmd-methodology-report.pdf
      August 02, 2024 - Unreimbursed care cost includes shortfalls in payments by local and State assistance programs for patients … payers, government programs, and patient payments. … Future measure development activities could include expanding the measures by using utilization variables … Hospital Financial Measures Database 15 Methodology Report FINANCIAL MEASURE GROUP RATIOS: TABLES 3.1 … Estimate regression coefficients using these weights.

3109. AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture: User’s Guide (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/asc/asc-user-guide.pdf
      July 01, 2018 - Westat then developed draft survey items to measure key composites and conducted cognitive interviews … There are 27 survey items grouped into 8 composite measures, or composites. … That will allow time to design, program, and test the survey. Figure 1. … The midpoints of the scales can be reported as a separate category (Neither agree nor disagree or Sometimes … Patient Safety Culture are grouped according to the safety culture composites they are intended to measure

3110. Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/candor-demo-program/plan-grants/findings.html
      August 01, 2022 - PARS is a tool for identifying and reducing unnecessary variation in a targeted safety/quality indicator—in … conducted through this planning grant laid the foundation for developing a guide on how to start a DA&O program … passage of a law in Massachusetts that allows all health care delivery organizations to develop DA&O programs … Experts in health care quality assurance and peer review developed criteria for such events that warrant … The grantee offered recommendations for implementing a voluntary ACEx2 program in lieu of the current

3111. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/leadership-6.html
      June 01, 2021 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2020. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2020. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2019. … The business case for quality: economic analysis of the Michigan Keystone Patient Safety Program in ICUs … Leadership, safety climate, and continuous quality improvement: impact on process quality and patient

3112. Turning Data Into Action—Using HSOPS and SSI Data as Part of a Meaningful Change: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/on-boarding/data-into-action-fac-notes.html
      December 01, 2017 - Action—Using HSOPS and SSI Data as Part of a Meaningful Change: Facilitator Notes AHRQ Safety Program … For more ideas, go to https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/index.html . … Improvement Program (NSQIP). … Slide 14: Using Data To Drive Quality Improvement Say: We have just learned how to obtain data … Slide 30: Generating SSI Reports for Frontline Staff Say: Scroll down to find and click on the “Measures

3113. Final Progress Report: Quality Factors in Nursing Home Choice (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/congdon-magilvy-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - of Quality Indicators (QI) (Zimmerman, et al., 1995) and later risk-adjusted measures (Arling, Karon … measures from CMS. … measures. … did not mention many of the quality measures reported by nursing homes to the state and federal governments … indicators and quality-of-life measures.

3114. I. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/hotline/intro1.html
      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

3115. An Ambulatory Care Curriculum for Advancing Patient Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Mottur.pdf
      June 01, 2005 - To round out the picture, we attempted to measure the effectiveness of the curriculum via the presenters … One respondent wrote, “Excellent program. … The requests came from several quality assurance programs and the Air Force. … Summary Overall, the evaluation of the CME program, Patient Safety: The Other Side of the Quality … On balance, this program was a success as interest in the program continues beyond the original target

3116. V-C3.01 Information Technology Security Policy Manual (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/AHRQ-Security-and-Privacy-Language-for-Information-and-Information-Technology-Procurements.pdf
      November 07, 2023 - Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Information Security … in accordance with this provision, the CO and/or COR may direct the CSP to take additional security measures … These measures may include restricting access to sensitive information on the Contractor information … Contractors must operate dedicated application security testing programs. ii. … Computer programs that comprise a series of instructions, rules, routines, or statements, regardless

3117. Tool 3 Continued | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool3a.html
      March 01, 2025 - With some insurance programs, however, the patient may have been assigned a PCP without the patient's … Tool to measure how deeply you breathe (peak flow meter). Tool to measure blood sugar (glucometer). … Visit AHRQ's  Guidelines and Measures microsite . … The program encourages patients to ask about three things before leaving the medical encounter: What … This is a significant patient safety and clinical quality issue.

3118. Tool 3 Continued | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool3a.html
      March 01, 2025 - With some insurance programs, however, the patient may have been assigned a PCP without the patient's … Tool to measure how deeply you breathe (peak flow meter). Tool to measure blood sugar (glucometer). … Visit AHRQ's  Guidelines and Measures microsite . … The program encourages patients to ask about three things before leaving the medical encounter: What … This is a significant patient safety and clinical quality issue.

3119. Webinar 6: Enhance Services for High-Risk Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/guide/web6.html
      December 01, 2017 - Give examples of how transitional care services and high utilizer programs effectively meet "whole-person … High Utilizers Improving Care for High Utilizers Slide 18: Principles to Guide High Utilizer Programs … Slide 19: In Practice: High-Utilizer Program "We do whatever it takes." … Brevity:  No more than 1 page; the essential summary information in a way that saves time and promotes quality … The transfer packet was completed in a purposeful effort to improve the quality of information flow between

3120. Minding the Gaps: Creating Resilience in Health Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Nemeth_116.pdf
      April 27, 2008 - Those patients received only 55 percent of recommended steps for top-quality care among 439 measures … Such measures point to the onset of gaps in normal work practices as pressures grow and reveal where … ) parameters, current and recent system status, and the expected course of the infusion if current program … Nemeth’s research is supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, … Who is at greatest risk for receiving poor-quality health care?