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21. Healthy Living Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/healthyliving/healthyliving-measures.html
    June 01, 2018 - Healthy Living Much valuable health care is delivered to prevent disease, disability, and discomfort rather … than to treat specific clinical conditions. … services improve health and quality of life and are often better characterized by stage over a lifespan rather … than by organ system.

22. Culture-Check-Uptool (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/Culture-Check-UpTool.docx
    June 02, 2025 - conversation, using the specific survey items based on a unit’s assessment of patient safety culture rather … than the summary scores (e.g., safety climate). … can be an issue for which the average response is three or below or a domain score that shows less than … This is not a meeting to rationalize or justify concerns, but rather a time to focus on identifying opportunities

23. Methods To Estimate the Baseline 2010 PFP National Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/methods.html
    December 01, 2017 - The rates of the 21 MPSMS adverse events are expressed as a rate for the whole sample population, rather … originate as a rate, and second, they are an estimate for four specific subpopulations of hospital patients rather … than all inpatients. … In order to estimate MPSMS rates for all patients, rather than simply those with one of the four diagnoses … estimated the adverse event rates for the 21 MPSMS HACs using data from patients with all diagnoses, rather

24. Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/obtoolkit-tool12.html
    March 01, 2014 - Rather, the objective of MI is not to solve the patient's problem or even to develop a plan; the goal … much of the MI literature emphasizes how the "spirit" of MI is the driving force behind any success, rather … than particular techniques or training. … consultations with patients, whereas the clinician's primary goal is to provide high-quality listening rather … than ready-made answers or advice.

25. Tool 2: Readmission Review Tool (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/mcaidread_tool2_readm_review.docx
    June 02, 2025 - Rather than looking for the one reason for the readmission, capture all the factors that contributed … It shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes. Would that be okay with you?” … reconciliation; such services may exist for some patients but not others or may be delivered as available rather … than consistently).

26. Comparing Quality Scores to a State or National Average | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/choose/average.html
    March 01, 2016 - Average Another strategy is to compare each entity’s performance to a group of providers larger than … As with the community average, many members of the public think that “average” is “mediocre,” rather … than defining it in formal statistical terms.

27. Communication Strategies for Sustainability: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/sustainability/communication-strategies-fac-guide.html
    February 01, 2017 - For instance, focus on specific tasks of performing spontaneous breathing trials rather than general … These negative views are gifts, rather than inconveniences. … This safety program is based on a grassroots approach from the ground up rather than top down lightning … Hopefully, they are more boring for the speaker than for the listener. … Rather than frame your request as all or nothing, provide intermediate options and what each option would

28. Culture Checkup Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/culture-checkup-tool.html
    July 01, 2023 - the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture) based on a unit’s assessment of patient safety culture rather … than the summary scores (e.g., safety climate). … can be an issue for which the average response is three or below or a domain score that shows less than … This is not a meeting to rationalize or justify concerns, but rather a time to focus on identifying opportunities

29. Reducing Disparities in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/persell_cvd_disparities.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - starting a statin regiment include: – Primary care clinicians focus on LDL (bad) cholesterol levels rather … than an individual’s overall cardiovascular risk – Patient reluctance to start a new medication  … Interventions that are directed at clinicians to promote statin prescribing (rather than aimed at patients

30. Channels: Reaching the Audience for a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/placement/channels.html
    January 01, 2023 - Rather than imposing your strategy on these organizations, you want it to be something that responds … cultivate a relationship with these “brokers” so that you are in a position to push information out to them rather … than waiting for them to ask. … Ideally, distribution brokers provide more than just a channel for your quality report. … your audience may visit when searching for information on health care, which they do far more often than

31. Appendix C. What Is a Diabetes Prevention Program? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/obtoolkitapc.html
    March 01, 2014 - While the original diabetes prevention program research study cost more than $5,000 per participant ( … due to personalized counseling and incentives), the group-based DEPLOY model averaged less than $500 … YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program courses are taught by trained laypersons rather than health care professionals … However, the training is extremely thorough and focuses on helping individuals make decisions to change rather … than offering information in a typical didactic style.

32. Comparing Health Plan and Provider Quality Scores to Each Other | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/choose/compare-providers.html
    January 01, 2023 - Comparing to the Community Average Many members of the public think that "average" is "mediocre," rather … than defining it in formal statistical terms. … A provider with a much higher score than average could still be doing quite poorly and one with a much

33. Interview with the WI-INTUIT Project Team | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/wi-intuit-interview.html
    November 01, 2024 - Because the practices we worked with volunteered to participate in our project, rather than being “voluntold … Like UI, depression is a stigmatized condition for which we rely on patient questionnaires rather than

34. 8. Development Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/presentations/2008update-full/slide08.html
    October 01, 2014 - Update rather than a full revision. Very similar development process to 1996 and 2000.  

35. Facilitator Guide: Communication Strategies for Sustainability (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/sustainability/communication-strategies-guide.docx
    January 01, 2017 - For instance, focus on specific tasks of performing spontaneous breathing trials rather than general … These negative views are gifts, rather than inconveniences. … This safety program is based on a grassroots approach from the ground up rather than top down lightning … Hopefully, they are more boring for the speaker than for the listener. … Rather than frame your request as all or nothing, provide intermediate options and what each option would

36. 5. 2008 PHS Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Update (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/presentations/2008update-overview/slide05.html
    October 01, 2014 - Update rather than a full rewrite. Used very similar development process.  

37. Appendix E. Moderating Factors Flowchart | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final-companion/clabsicompape.html
    January 01, 2013 - Readiness Assessment Moderating Factors Flowchart Note : Units with rates greater than … 25 post-baseline were not excluded; rather, individual data points were set to missing (n=11 data points

38. Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement in Diagnostic Documentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-ehr-impact4.html
    July 01, 2024 - Systems designed to use medical terminology or international medical coding systems rather than free … operationalized in medical practice, is a natural part of medicine and more common in primary care than … ensure that reported data and reimbursement accurately represent the patient population under treatment, rather … than solely reflecting the completeness of coded data.

39. Designing the Built Environment for A Culture and System of Patient Safety – A Conceptual, New Design Process (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Dickerman_84.pdf
    June 04, 2008 - Designers appear to be taking “solution based” approaches rather than using intensive, focused research … than the fault of individuals. … In other words, causation is related to the design of systems and to the culture of care, rather than … It might mean that work environments would need to be suitable for computer monitors rather than … Health care now tends to focus on the illness of the patient rather than on his/her care.

40. PDI Charts for Presentations (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/b3a_pdi_chartsforpresentations.pdf
    January 01, 2006 - is the estimate of how a hospital would perform on an indicator for an average case mix of patients, rather … than its own case mix. … than its own case mix. … than its own case mix. … than its own case mix.