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1. Specific Tools To Support Change (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2011 - Specific Tools To Support Change Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital … Quality and Safety i Tool G.2 Specific Tools To Support Change What is the purpose of this … organizations that may be used instead of or in addition to the resources in the QI Toolkit to help support specific … your hospital and use the AHRQ Quality Indicators, these additional resources may help inform the specific … of Resource Name Description Source State of Connecticut Guide SMART Objectives Develop specific

2. AHRQ Customer Service Standards | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2021 - AHRQ Customer Service Standards These standards express the specific … The following standards express the specific commitments of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … request permission to reprint or reuse material published by AHRQ, either in whole or in part (i.e., specific

3. CAHPS Patient Experience Surveys and Guidance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2023 - experiences with healthcare providers, such as doctors, clinics, and hospice teams, or with care for specific … AHRQ does not require the use of any surveys or the use of a specific methodology for sampling or survey … Hospice * Home Health Care * Surgical Care American Indian Patient Experience With Condition-Specific

4. NPSD Dashboards | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2023 - provides an overview of the numbers and categories of various patient safety event reports and event-specific … dashboards that describe in greater depth specific safety events such as medication events and falls … is a figure depicting the relative response rates, which is paired with a data table presenting the specific … Technical notes follow each dashboard to provide additional details such as the text of the specific … It also features new incident-specific near misses-specific analyses that examine their contributing

5. Essentials of the Research Plan | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2017 - A typical research plan has these required elements: Specific Aims . Research Strategy . … Specific Aims The Specific Aims section is a one-page formal statement of the objectives and milestones … The Specific Aims section should— State concisely the goals of the proposed research. … List succinctly the specific objectives of the research proposed (e.g., to test a stated hypothesis, … if the applicant has multiple Specific Aims.

6. CAHPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2024 - making Utilization Your care from specialists in the last 6 months   Supplemental Items for Specific … Surveys Only the CAHPS surveys below have specific supplemental items: Health Plan Survey Clinician … Supplemental items enable users to "drill down" to get details about specific aspects of care. … Gathering information about the experiences of a specific population. … Supplemental Items The lists of supplemental items include detailed instructions for placing items in specific

7. Use of "Roll-ups" to Report CAHPS Survey Results and Other Quality Measures (pdf file)
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   July 10, 2011 - There may be some loss of information contained in the more specific measures that wouldn’t be apparent … So there can be a disadvantage by not forcing people to engage with the specific individual measures … First you can provide a roll-up score along with providing access to more specific information that … So that essentially, you present both in a way that makes the specific information readily available … So there I’d suggest that organizations think about the pros and cons of roll-ups in their specific

8. 3. Breadth and Focus Areas of Federal Agency Research Portfolios in HSR and PCR | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   July 01, 2021 - Services: Related to specific federal health programs Population: Individuals served or affected by … specific federal health programs and initiatives Informing policy- and decision-making on federal … populations (children, aged, and minorities) Enhancing health related to specific diseases, body … Disease-specific clinical screening and treatment in primary care. … Table 3.4 presents more-specific research categories of interest in HSR and PCR.

9. Strategy 6D: Internet Access for Health Information and Advice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2023 - The Problem Many health care consumers seek information about specific complaints, conditions or diseases … patients, including patient-support networks (such as bulletin boards and patient chat rooms) and disease-specific … visits, more phone consultations, and fewer and shorter hospitalizations due to an interactive, disease-specific … These sites are excellent examples of providing specific information about the health care organizations—practices … about appointment waiting times, access to medical records—as well as health information and condition-specific

10. 6 Tk1 T5-Suspect A Urinary Tract Infection Brochure Ma Coalition Final (pdf file)
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    June 18, 2015 - Diagnosis of a UTI requires both finding bacteria on a urine test and the presence of specific symptoms … What are the specific symptoms of a UTI? … UTI is less likely without the specific symptoms listed above. … Non-specific symptoms such as confusion, a sudden change in behavior, fatigue or a fall may be caused … to physicians “Don’t use antimicrobials (antibiotics) to treat bacteriuria in older adults unless specific

11. Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process (Page 1 of 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2020 - Choose specific interventions to implement. Prepare a written action plan. 4.B.1.a. … The goal should reflect the specific aspects of CAHPS-related performance that the team is targeting. … Make of list of those gaps and use them to make SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and … Describe the specific actions briefly. Who will be affected, and how? … This article describes innovative methods and highlights specific examples of organizational structures

12. 2018 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Appendix A (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2018 - care as soon as needed -3.82 0.0 0.00 MEPS 15 (2002-2016) People in fair or poor health with a specific … source of ongoing care -3.22 0.0 0.01 NHIS 9 (2009-2017) People with a specific source of ongoing … or never found it easy to get the care, tests, or treatment 138.68 6.19 MEPS 2016 People with a specific … source of ongoing care 17.0 0.34 NHIS 2017 People with a specific source of ongoing care 15.79 0.66 … source of ongoing care 85.88 2.89 NHIS 2017 People with a specific source of ongoing care 83.51 9.48

13. USER GUIDE: Hand Hygiene Observational Audit Data Tracking Tool for Use in Skilled Nursing Facilities (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2021 - . • Identify the specific steps in the hand hygiene process where improvement needs to be targeted. • … Once the Tracking Start Date is entered on the Instructions tab (see Step 1, above), the specific … Since location is unique and specific to each facility, these cells are open text fields, meaning you … In this open text field, consider including details such as room number or specific hand sanitizer … Follow the same process in the other rate tabs to review data based on a specific location or four-hour

14. Guide-Infection-Prevention (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2017 - Specific Standard Precautions Specific Standard Precaution: HAND HYGIENE KEY MESSAGES ▪ Practice … Specific Standard Precaution: SOILED LINEN KEY MESSAGES ▪ Treat all soiled linen as potentially … The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has specific directions about what types of isolation … are to be used for specific germs3,4. … Specific Transmission-Based Precautions Specific Transmission-Based Precaution: CONTACT PRECAUTIONS

15. Organizing Quality Measures by Disease or Condition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2019 - disease or condition that they have, or that a loved one has. [1] A large number of measures are disease-specific … If most or all of the measures you are considering are disease-specific, then you should consider this … structure their reporting program so that they can issue a series of reports, each with a focus on a specific … Condition-specific performance information: assessing salience, comprehension, and approaches for communicating

16. How To Implement the Fall Prevention Program in Your Organization
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    November 20, 2014 - ‹#› Staff Roles Assign staff to perform each specific task in your set of best practices, based on training … and experience. ‹#› Staff Roles In some cases, a group will perform the task based on specific roles … Other tasks may be assigned to a specific person. … How to use this tool: Complete the table by entering the different best practices and the specific individuals … Implementing best practices checklist Task Date Completed Roles and Responsibilities of Staff   Assign specific

17. United States Health Information Knowledgebase | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - The registry contained core components and specific collections of metadata artifacts. … Each portal presented a specific subset of content relevant to a particular topic in a manner uniquely … The SDOs produced a standard related to specific healthcare domains, such as pharmacy, medical devices … data elements, and other software requirements needed in an EHR system to address healthcare needs specific … Email digitalhealthcareresearch@ahrq.hhs.gov with any questions about USHIK or a specific portal.

18. RFA-HS-23-012: Implementing and Evaluating New Models for Delivering Comprehensive, Coordinated, Person-Centered Care to People with Long COVID (U18) (pdf file)
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    May 16, 2023 - Yes, a Specific Aims page is required for this submission. 3. … There are no requirements for specific types of partnerships. … There is no specific requirement related to the number of PDs/PIs allowed. … Are there any specific requirements or skills for the evaluation liaison? … Will there be a restriction on how many grants are funded in a specific region?

19. Institutional Mentored Career Development Award Program in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2018 - The expected output of these grants is improved population-specific health outcomes as a result of developing … clinicians, and other decisionmakers on which interventions are most effective for which patients under specific

20. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
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    August 03, 2017 - How to use this tool: Complete the table by entering the different best practices and the specific individuals … How to use this tool: The unit manager can use this tool to help assign specific individuals or groups … Treating medical provider (e.g., physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant) Reviews needs for specific … Does education of staff provide discipline-specific education for fall prevention and management? … Implementing best practices checklist Task Date Completed Roles and Responsibilities of Staff Assign specific