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3221. Paul Tedrick (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/mindfulness-transcript.doc
      June 10, 2014 - the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and … stop them, and if it was and they had culture results, to tailor the antibiotics, and we decided to measure … to focus on a particular quality intervention and we focused on antibiotic use. … A lot of what is being asked with respect to documentation, quality, fall risk, urinary catheter appropriateness … have infectious disease doctors in their hospitals and they work with chief medical officers, chief quality

3222. Readmissions for Selected Infections Due to Medical Care: Expanding the Definition of a Patient Safety Indicator (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Gallagher2.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - care problems are captured by AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs).2, 3 The PSIs are a set of measures … definitions and analyses Identification of Selected Infections Due to Medical Care cases The AHRQ PSI programs … Patient Safety: Vol. 2 46 Discussion The Patient Safety Indicators, like the Complication Screening Programs … Measures of patient safety based on hospital administrative data— the Patient Safety Indicators. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

3223. The AAFP Patient Safety Reporting System: Development and Legal Issues Pertinent to Medical Error Tracking and Analysis (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2004 - The main outcome measures were error category, error rate, and error consequence. … for this purpose, but it remains an important and evolving part of the AAFP patient safety research program … No/limited discoverability Confidential • Reporter and data security limitations • Complicated measures … the use of such systems, which reduces the opportunity to identify trends and implement corrective measures … quality and safety.

3224. 10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2009 - Hospitals Advancing Excellence in Health Care • www.ahrq.gov Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which has sponsored hundreds of patient safety … 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.

3225. A Model for Sustaining and Spreading Safety Interventions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2015 - Matters Leadership Commits to Bold Improvement Goals The Organization Has a Culture of Safety Program … Alignment With Other Quality Improvement Tools CUSP aligns well with these other quality improvement … other tools Identify local barriers to implementation and develop strategies to overcome resistance Measure … Final Report for the AHRQ Safety Program for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals. … WIHI audio program. Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

3226. Institute for the Design of Environments Aligned for Patient Safety (IDEA4PS) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/design-environments-long-desc.html
      April 01, 2021 - clinicians to focus on meaningful events over the din of background noise, leading to enhanced safety and quality … This dashboard can be applied to other quality and safety outcomes that may benefit from localization … What is the return on investment for implementation of a crew resource management program at an academic … and safety measures: a comparison of cardiac units. … Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating standard algorithms to measure patient safety .

3227. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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      January 01, 2017 - Slide 2 [Type text] [Type text] [Type text] AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated … Slide 3 Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) SAY: The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program … , CUSP, is a five-step program designed to impact safety climate by empowering staff to assume responsibility … factors, such as shift patterns and equipment maintenance · Team factors, such as team structure and quality … SAY: Plan how you will measure success.

3228. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/resphys-champions.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - We hope it will be used to guide quality improvement efforts at facilities with physician training programs … toolkit can be used as a self-learning module or as an adjunct to existing educational or orientation programs … Introducing a population-based outcome measure to evaluate the effect of interventions to reduce catheter-associated … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education

3229. Diagnostic Stewardship Interventions To Reduce Diagnostic Error | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship5.html
      August 01, 2024 - Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Diagnostic Stewardship … Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality … unnecessary tests translated to reductions in false positive diagnoses, the authors of the study could not measure … These changes, combined with education and other components of the IHS’s population-based kidney care program … 42,43 Analytic interventions Analytic interventions focus on laboratory actions and include internal quality

3230. Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2023 - , training , and reports to help health systems deliver CLAS so that all patients receive high quality … Tips on Writing a Quality Report TalkingQuality offers guidance on producing comparative information … on healthcare quality that's understandable and useful to consumers. … Tip 5: Make a Health Care Quality Report Culturally Appropriate helps readers feel like the report was … HHS Resources Think Cultural Health is a program of the U.S.

3231. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/guides/resphys-champions.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - We hope it will be used to guide quality improvement efforts at facilities with physician training programs … toolkit can be used as a self-learning module or as an adjunct to existing educational or orientation programs … Introducing a population-based outcome measure to evaluate the effect of interventions to reduce catheter-associated … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education

3232. Physician and Physician Practice Research Database Feasibility Report (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2024 - allowing to link individuals to organizations and can therefore be used to create practice-level measures … Although definitions were initially informed by the literature and existing data programs that were … Although developing this measure would be valuable, the execution may be difficult, time-consuming, … commercial payers and other proprietary datasets (e.g., Aetna and Blue Health Intelligence data, and data programs … public policy in innovative and meaningful ways, as demonstrated through all of AHRQ’s current data programs

3233. Appendix C. Site Visit Protocol | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - What major organizational or clinical outcomes related to delivery of care does the administration measure … Probe: : Please list all quality improvement initiatives you can recall. … Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State Ambulatory Surgery Database or the Outcomes Monitoring Program … targets, and (4) lack of timely and adequate guidance on personal protective equipment and other safety measures … Control of bloodborne pathogen exposure Standard precautions and hand hygiene An occupational health program

3234. Final Progress Report: TIPI Systems To Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/selker-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - This difference may be related to the ECG interpretation program used by the hospital’s ECG manufacturer … Of note, based on the NHLBI National Heart Attack Alert Program (NHAAP) Diagnostic Technology Review9 … ● Actionable measures to be added: - Timeliness to ECG, blood tests - Single biomarker use - MI … This information will be used to provide the results of specific and actionable quality measures not … Through a facilitated, continuous quality improvement cycle, the measures will be followed over time

3235. Patient and Family Engagement in the Emergency Department | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - My name is Sarah Dalton, and I am a Program Specialist at the Health Research and Educational Trust. … Development Lead and works with teams guiding the CUSP CAUTI acute and long-term care in TeamSTEPPS programs … programs nationally, so we focus on every element of health care, and especially on what many refer … family presence policy, even such that patients' families are allowed to be a part of resuscitative measures … Encouraging patient advisors to serve on safety and quality performance improvement teams, especially

3236. Tailoring Digital Technologies To Improve Outcomes Among Minorities With Chronic Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2024 - by tracking personal information, such as diet, physical activity, medication adherence, and sleep quality … She also is a member of the Partnership for Quality Measurement. … To learn more about AHRQ's Research Education and Training Programs, please visit https://www.ahrq.gov

3237. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/resphys-champions_2.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - We hope it will be used to guide quality improvement efforts at facilities with physician training programs … toolkit can be used as a self-learning module or as an adjunct to existing educational or orientation programs … Introducing a population-based outcome measure to evaluate the effect of interventions to reduce catheter-associated … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education

3238. Clean Equipment and Environment Promotes Safe Resident Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/infection-prevention/environment-and-equipment/environ-equip-slides.html
      March 01, 2017 - Clean Equipment and Environment Promotes Safe Resident Care AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term … Indwelling urinary catheters are important medical devices that can be essential to providing quality … Indwelling urinary catheters are important medical devices that can be essential to providing quality

3239. CAHPS® Moving Forward: Innovations in Tools and Research Webcast (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-moving-forward-hays-slides.pdf
      October 01, 2017 - University Of California – Los Angeles and RAND Health Program www.ahrq.gov/cahps CAHPS Family of … Response rates were 60%, 74% and 77%, respectively. 23 www.ahrq.gov/cahps Value of Narratives for Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: October 2017. … surveys, and customized provider surveys may be useful for expediently informing providers’ internal quality … Elicitation Protocol (NEP) 2017 Field Test of Encouragement to Complete NEP Value of Narratives for Quality

3240. Overview of Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (PSLL) Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2025 - AHRQ has been supporting the PSLLs through the Agency's patient safety program. … A new measure tool to assess staff experience of intrahospital patient transfers. … Training programs for staff. … Configurable parameters (i.e., variables, weights) enable adjusted baseline risk estimates in real time … Develop programs to promote interconnectedness between patients and physicians.