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1. Comparing Quality Scores to an Independent Standard | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2023 - Another approach would be to compare scores to an independent standard of what performance on … Advantages of Comparing to an Independent Standard It sets the highest appropriate bar. … Disadvantages of Comparing to an Independent Standard Independently developed, defensible standards … The Standard for “Never Events” There is one kind of standard that is beginning to emerge in health … care: the standard of “never” or zero percent for certain adverse and preventable events.

2. Standard Work Observation Component Kit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2017 - Why Standard Work Observation?          Connections to Other Components 2. Tips 3. … Why Standard Work Observation? … Integration: Observation of safety standard work, including the checklist, serves as part of next-level … standard work for managers, and helps build a foundation for aligned standard work across levels of … Reminders and practice of standard behaviors are important but often not sufficient to get 100 percent

3. Standardized Nursing Protocol for Iodophor (doc file)
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   March 01, 2022 - Standardized Nursing Protocol for Iodophor Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients With Devices Section 9-4 – Standardized Nursing Protocol: Use of Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine) The following is a standing order protocol for implementing nasal decolonization in adult non-intensive care unit (ICU) patients who are m…

4. Module 2: Component Kit (doc file)
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   May 01, 2017 - Standard Huddle Agenda (Adapt to Your Needs and Experience) 7 5. … Standard work observation: Observation report occurs in huddle. … [footnoteRef:2] A coach uses the sheet to get a person to follow standard work. [2: Graupp P, Purrier … Getting to Standard Work in Health Care: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care. … of a standard huddle.

5. Module 5: Visual Management - Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2017 - Slide 2: A Frontline Management System To Promote Safety Standard Work Say: As the figure shows … Next level—manager standard work identifies whether frontline standard work is taking place and helps … Integration—means the alignment of staff at all levels around safety goals; and the performance of standard … Visual management helps your team monitor safety performance, safety standard work, and track concerns … Your aim is to introduce visual management boards into daily practice to promote safety standard work

6. Standardized Nursing Protocol: Use of Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine) (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2022 - Standardized Nursing Protocol: Use of Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine) Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients With Devices Section 9-4 – Standardized Nursing Protocol: Use of Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine) The following is a standing order protocol for implementing nasal decolonization in adult non- i…

7. Tool: I-PASS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   July 01, 2023 - Your facility should determine a standard protocol for delivering handoffs and make it known to everyone … Standard scripts can help make processes more efficient and can be easier for message senders to construct … If an organization has standard approaches to performing structured handoffs, they are more likely to

8. TeamSTEPPS Video Debrief Guide: SBAR on Inpatient Medical Unit (pdf file)
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   August 31, 2023 - Inpatient Medical Unit Video Objective To demonstrate each step of SBAR and emphasize the importance of standard … video outlines the acronym (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendations) and shows an example of standard

9. Daily Huddle Component Kit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2017 - Standard Huddle Agenda (Adapt to Your Needs and Experience) 5. … Standard work observation : Observation report occurs in huddle.  … Health Care (2013). 2 A coach uses the sheet to get a person to follow standard work. … elements of a standard huddle. … Getting to Standard Work in Health Care: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care.

10. Safe Medication Administration: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - The key safety elements of standardizing when possible are the following: Having standard criteria … A standard dosing protocol (that is, starting dose, incremental dose increase, frequency of increase, … Both low- and high-dose protocols may be appropriate; thus, two standard dosing protocols may need to … Having uniform and standard drug packaging, preparation, and labeling. … Establish the unit’s standard approach for administering a loading dose (bolus).

11. Nursing Practice Guide (doc file)
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    March 01, 2022 - working with facility pharmacy to ensure 10 doses are delivered Order set reconciliation Escalation via standard … nursing teams use scripted approach to address and escalate patient refusals Refusals are escalated via standard

12. Nursing Practice Guide (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2022 - facility pharmacy to ensure 10 doses are delivered • Order set reconciliation • Escalation via standard … use scripted approach to address and escalate patient refusals • Refusals are escalated via standard

13. Module 2: Daily Huddles - Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2017 - This is the second module in the series on frontline management systems to promote sustained safety standard … Slide 2: A Frontline Management System To Promote Safety Standard Work Say: As discussed in the … first module, the frontline management system to promote sustained, controlled standard work that ensures … The system also contains standard work by managers to identify whether frontline standard work is taking … what the huddle is, why it’s done, and when it’s done, so that new staff begin to see it as part of standard

14. Respirator Fit Testing (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2021 - Health Administration (OSHA) requires your healthcare facility to follow the Respiratory Protection Standard … Safety and Health (NIOSH) Certified Equipment List Search OSHA COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard … OSHA Fit Testing Procedures OSHA Respiratory Protection – Standard 1910.134 OSHA Respiratory

15. Choosing a Comparator for Health Care Quality Scores | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2022 - Comparing to an Average Comparing to a Benchmark Comparing to a Percentile Comparing to a Standard … Performance Achieved) Comparing to the Top 10 or 20 Percent of Performers Comparing to an Independent Standard

16. Safe Medication Administration: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Slide 9: Key Safety Elements: Standardize When Possible Standard criteria established for oxytocin … Use of a standard dosing protocol, and limiting to no more than two protocols (low-dose, high-dose). … Use of standard NICHD* nomenclature to document and communicate electronic fetal monitoring findings … Slide 20: Key Safety Elements: Standardize When Possible Standard criteria established, met, and … Uniform and standard drug packaging, preparation, and labeling. 12,13 Standardization of magnesium

17. Health Care Simulation to Advance Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2018 - play when tasks are infrequent and complex, relatively new and evolving, and when consequences of sub-standard … of competency-based instruction where all learners must demonstrate a high and uniform performance standard … Just as it takes considerable practice for learners to acquire new skills and reach a high standard of … Standard setting in medical education. Acad Med. 1996 Oct;71(10 Suppl):S112-20. 8. … Comparison of two standard-setting methods for advanced life support training.

18. Explicit and Standardized Prescription Medicine Instructions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - follow the Universal Medication Schedule (UMS), which simplifies complex medicine regimens by using standard … follow the Universal Medication Schedule (UMS), which simplifies complex medicine regimens by using standard

19. Platelet-Rich Plasma for Wound Care in the Medicare Population: Disposition of Comments (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2020 - Key Question 1.c.i. is of particular interest (regarding standard of care in the comparator groups) … ; the absence of any protocol to create a meaningful standard against which to measure the effectiveness … We agree that standard of care are not clearly defined in some of the studies. … Trials also need clearly defined standard of care including off-loading and debridement. … The report is organized in a standard way where we have key questions, summary of evidence and then

20. Comparing Quality Scores to the Top 10 or 20 Percent | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2016 - Comparing to an Average Comparing to a Benchmark Comparing to a Percentile Comparing to a Standard … Performance Achieved) Comparing to the Top 10 or 20 Percent of Performers Comparing to an Independent Standard