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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/ktcquips82.html
October 01, 2014 - Five Nebraska Hospitals Use AHRQ Toolkit to Improve Medication Reconciliation Across Care Settings
Search All Impact Case Studies
November 2011
Between January and September 2010, AHRQ partnered with seven Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) to deliver a series of onsite learning sessions and provider …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/tools/applying-cusp/or_briefing_audit.docx
December 01, 2017 - Tool: OR Briefing and Debriefing Audit Tool
AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery
Operating Room Briefing and Debriefing Audit Tool
Introduction
Problem Statement
One of the strongest determinants of safety culture is whether local and hospital leadership respond to staff patient safety concerns. Frontline providers unde…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/tools/applying-cusp/perioperative_asst.docx
December 01, 2017 - Tool: Perioperative Staff Safety Assessment
AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery
Perioperative Staff Safety Assessment
Introduction
Problem Statement
One of the strongest determinants of safety culture is whether local and hospital leadership respond to staff patient safety concerns. Frontline providers understand patie…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20160315/susan-edgman-levitan-intro-slides.pdf
March 15, 2016 - Strategies for Improving CAHPS Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS) Survey Scores
Strategies for Improving CAHPS
Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS)
Survey Scores
A Webcast Presented by the AHRQ CAHPS User Network
March 15, 2016
12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
CAHPS Webcast Series
• Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers
and Syste…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/nh-workplace-safety-ginsberg.pdf
January 01, 2015 - New AHRQ SOPS® Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Nursing Homes - Caren Ginsberg, Ph.D.
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AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™
(SOPS®) Program
Caren Ginsberg, Ph.D.
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• AHRQ is:
► A research and sci…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/03-new-sops-workplace-safety-mcgaffigan.pdf
December 01, 2020 - New AHRQ SOPS® Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals - McGaffigan
Workforce
Safety
Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS, CPPS
pmcgaffigan@ihi.org; @Pmcgaffigan_IHI
mailto:pmcgaffigan@ihi.org
Why Workforce Safety Matters
Workforce safety is
essential for safe, high-
quality care and is
preconditional to …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module2/guide.docx
March 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI
Long-Term Care Safety Modules
Module 2: Senior Leader Engagement
Term Care Safety Toolkit
Material Use Guide
Learning Objectives:
· Identify characteristics of successful senior leaders
· List five practices of effective leaders
· Describe the responsibilities o…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/training-tools-material-guide.docx
May 01, 2017 - Overview
Definition of Sustainability and its Importance in Quality Improvement
· Slides 4-8
Linking Sustainability and Spread
· Slides 9-10
Planning Early for Sustainability
· Slides 11-12
Barriers and Solutions to Sustaining Improvements
· Slides 13-17
Steps to Creating and Implementing a Sustainability Plan
· Slides…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/02-sops-riverside-handoffs-webcast-bakdash.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Improving Hospital Handoffs Using AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® Hospital Survey - Bakdash
AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture®
(SOPS®) Program
Jonathan Bakdash, Ph.D.
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• AHRQ is:
► A research and …
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/mutual/tools/advocacy.html
June 01, 2023 - Tool: Advocacy and Assertion
Providing mutual support also sometimes requires the use of advocacy and assertion. Advocacy and assertion interventions are invoked when a team member's viewpoint does not coincide with that of a decision maker. In advocating by or for the patient and asserting the need for correct…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/131-what-are-the-4-es-one-pager.docx
May 24, 2024 - The aim is to Engage hearts and minds and thus, change attitudes and behaviors.1-6
Raise awareness of the problem, communicate benefits of the solution, and lay out the goals for the intervention.
· Use unit data, published literature, and national benchmarks. Storytelling is an underrated tool.
Engagement is not a on…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/mcc-summit/mcc-summit-arlene.pdf
November 17, 2020 - Transforming Care for People Living with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Transforming Care for People Living with
Multiple Chronic Conditions
Arlene Bierman, M.D., M.S.
Director, Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
November 17, 2020
Why MCC?
• Common, Costly
• H…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/medmanage-ptfactsheet.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Please bring ALL your medicines to your next appointment.
Please Bring ALL
Your Medicines to Your
Next Appointment
You will work with your health care team to make a medicine list.
Please make sure you bring (in the original container)...
� Prescription medicines.
� Medicines you buy without a prescription
(…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/resources/ccrm-atlas-suppl/ccrm-atlas-suppl.pdf
October 01, 2013 - We thank members of the Clinical-Community Relationships Measures Expert
Panel for sharing their time … We also thank colleagues of the Clinical-Community Relationships Measures
Team for sharing their time … of the level of shared decision-
making regarding prevention as reflected in perceived information sharing … well as manage the relationship(s)
Shared decision-making The level of clinician-patient information sharing
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/ccrm-atlas-suppl.pdf
October 01, 2013 - We thank members of the Clinical-Community Relationships Measures Expert
Panel for sharing their time … We also thank colleagues of the Clinical-Community Relationships Measures
Team for sharing their time … of the level of shared decision-
making regarding prevention as reflected in perceived information sharing … well as manage the relationship(s)
Shared decision-making The level of clinician-patient information sharing
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/castro-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference 2020-2022
Title Page – Final Progress Report
Title: Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference 2020-2022
Principal Investigator: Gerry Castro, PhD, MPH
Team Members:
2022 Conference Chairs, Co-chairs and Planning Commitee members
Andrew Olson…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/healthitresourcelist.pdf
January 01, 2019 - HIT Resource List
Improving Health Information Technology Patient
Safety: A Resource List for Users of the AHRQ Health
Information Technology Item Set
I. Purpose
This document provides a list of references to websites and other publicly available practical
resources that hospitals can use to implement changes …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/seid-sobo-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Managing the Health Needs of Vulnerable Children
Title of Project: Managing The Health Needs of Vulnerable Children
Principal Investigator and Team Members: Michael Seid, PhD, Elisa J. Sobo, PhD
Organization: Children’s Hospital Research Center
Inclusive Dates of Project: 9/30/2001 - 9/29/…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/building-team-process-slides.html
December 01, 2017 - Building a Team and Process to Reduce CAUTI Risk
Slide Presentation
Slide 1
Mohamad Fakih, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control
St. John Hospital and Medical Center
Barbara Lucas, MD, MHSA
Project Consultant
Mich…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/reports/chsp-issue-brief-2.pdf
March 01, 2018 - Summary of 2nd Comparative Health Systems Performance Initiative Workshop
ISSUE BRIEF A Summary of the Second
Annual Workshop of AHRQ’s
Comparative Health System
Performance Initiative
Summary
As part of the Comparative Health
System Performance (CHSP)
Initiative, the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Qual…