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41. Strategies for Improving CAHPS Health Plan Survey Scores (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20160413/graham-bouldin.pdf
    April 13, 2016 - can build a new customer service team, but these values can be applied anywhere Reference: AHRQ Standards … constitutes high quality service from the perspective of your members and patients” 2) “Service standards … and measures Standards • All transfers are “warm”, one-call resolution • Coach members to ask specific … Improvement in Customer Service Measure Our Customer Service Improvement Story Reference: AHRQ Standards … service professionals—they understood what good service meant to members Develop a set of service standards

42. Final Progress Report: The National Quality Forum Annual Meeting 2005 (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/nishimi2-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - As the number of endorsed standards increases, the importance and challenge of broad implementation … The “real-life” stories of the actual implementation of NQF-endorsed consensus standards – including … “The Accountability and Transparency Puzzle: Implementing NQF-Endorsed™ Consensus Standards” focused … on the implementation of national voluntary consensus standards for healthcare quality. … Brock noted that some Council members clearly believe that standardization and NQF endorsement of QI-only

43. Appendix 2-C. External Linking Policy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/pubcomguide/pcguide2apc.html
    June 01, 2020 - Standards for Contractors Developing Multimedia Products Appendix 1-E. … Accessibility and the Revised 508 Standards Appendix 2-C. … External Linking Policy Section 3: Branding Design Element Specifications Section 4: Media Standards … This AHRQ policy is in addition to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)  Web Standards

44. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/national-academy-medicine.html
    February 01, 2018 - that studied the best methods used in developing clinical practice guidelines and identified eight standards … Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement is a 2009 report … that recommends collection of more granular ethnicity and language need according to national standards … Standard for Care is a 2003 report that describes a detailed plan to facilitate the development of data standards

45. Audio and Video Products | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/pubcomguide/pcguide-avdevelopment.html
    July 01, 2024 - Standards for Contractors Developing Multimedia Products Appendix 1-E. … Accessibility and the Revised 508 Standards Appendix 2-C. … Contractor activities related to the development of AV products must adhere to agency standards. … Standards for Contractors Developing Multimedia Products Appendix 1-E. … Accessibility and the Revised 508 Standards

46. Chartbook on Hispanic Health Care: Slide Presentation—Part 1 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/hisph-slides-pt1.html
    March 01, 2020 - Slide 11 HHS Data Collection Standards for Race and Ethnicity, 2011 Note: The Affordable Care … Section 4302 (Understanding health disparities: data collection and analysis) focuses on the standardization … Section 4302 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish data collection standards … Adopted October 31, 2011, these data collection standards are to be used, to the extent practicable, … The new data standards improve the quality of HHS data collection by establishing a consistent, uniform

47. TransforMN Study | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/solberg.html
    April 01, 2015 - Certification standards focused on five key areas: Continuous access and communication between the … Certification required documentation of meeting all five standards, which was verified through site visits … standardized performance measures and attainment of progressively more challenging structural and functional standards … The Minnesota Department of Health developed written documents to explain how the five standards of transformation … Each practice, or group of practices, determined how to best implement changes to meet the standards

48. Final Progress Report: A Pilot Study for Intrgrating Facility Information With Healthcare Information to Improve Patient Safety (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/anumba-report_0.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - These included case studies, structured interviews with domain experts, content analysis of standards … Numerous critical problem areas and gaps in standards were identified as worthy of more detailed studies … the ability of existing technologies to adequately support the regulations and standards. … This study was described in the paper “Gap Analysis of Guidelines’ and Standards’ Ability to Support … d) Existing standards and guidelines for facility works in hospitals make some references to the role

49. Final Progress Report: The National Quality Forum National Annual Policy Conference 2006 (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/nishimi-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - NQF plays a key role, because the alliances and CMS are committed to using NQF-endorsed™ standards. … The cornerstones of this value-based health care system are quality standards, price standards, incentives … Quality standards depend on AHRQ’s research, such as the National Healthcare Quality Report and the … in the STS National Cardiac Database, because it provides a common language and standards. … For financial information, VCSQI adopted the standards in the UB-92 MEDPAR national database, which

50. TransforMN Study (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-solberg.pdf
    April 01, 2015 - Certification standards focused on five key areas: • Continuous access and communication between the … Certification required documentation of meeting all five standards, which was verified through site … standardized performance measures and attainment of progressively more challenging structural and functional standards … The Minnesota Department of Health developed written documents to explain how the five standards of … Each practice, or group of practices, determined how to best implement changes to meet the standards

51. Major Nursing Home Quality Measurement Sets | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/long-term-care/nursing-home/measurement-sets.html
    November 01, 2018 - NQF-Endorsed Measures The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed a set of voluntary consensus standards … Measures reflecting these standards are among the information presented by most sponsors of nursing home

52. Part 1: Overviews of the Report and the Hispanic Population | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part1.html
    March 01, 2020 - HHS Data Collection Standards for Race and Ethnicity, 2011 Are you of Hispanic, Latino/a, or … Section 4302 (Understanding health disparities: data collection and analysis) focuses on the standardization … Section 4302 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish data collection standards … Adopted October 31, 2011, these data collection standards are to be used, to the extent practicable, … The new data standards improve the quality of HHS data collection by establishing a consistent, uniform

53. 1. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata1.html
    April 01, 2018 - Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement 1. … Introduction Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization … The Census Bureau complies with the OMB standards, noting that the standards "generally reflect a social … Patient-Provider Encounter Lack of standardization of categories. … The Interagency Committee for the Review of the Racial and Ethnic Standards reviewed the OMB standards

54. Problem Solving and Escalation – Standards Component Kit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/problem-solving-comp-kit.html
    June 01, 2017 - Problem Solving and Escalation – Standards Component Kit Contents 1.

55. Standardized infection ratios for central line-associated bloodstream infections and surgical site infections, 2009–2012
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/2014nhqdr-hispanichealth-pt1.pptx
    October 01, 2015 - Section 4302 (Understanding health disparities: data collection and analysis) focuses on the standardization … Section 4302 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish data collection standards … Adopted October 31, 2011, these data collection standards are to be used, to the extent practicable, … The new data standards improve the quality of HHS data collection by establishing a consistent, uniform … chartbook were collected in 2012 and earlier, there was insufficient time to incorporate the new 2011 standards

56. Volume 3: Reporting of Systematic Reviews of Micronutrients and Health: A Critical Appraisal | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/nutritn3tp.html
    April 01, 2018 - SRs published after consensus reporting standards (since 2003) met a higher proportion of the reporting … Conclusions: The reporting quality of SRs has improved 3 years after publication of SR reporting standards … Improved adherence to consensus methods and reporting standards should improve the utility of nutrition

57. Grantee Guidance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/pubcomguide/granteeguide.html
    November 01, 2021 - Standards for Contractors Developing Multimedia Products Appendix 1-E. … Accessibility and the Revised 508 Standards Appendix 2-C. … External Linking Policy Section 3: Branding Design Element Specifications Section 4: Media Standards … Grantees will apply quality assurance standards to any information system development project or tool … Grantees need to incorporate best practices and industry standards for security of web resources, establish

58. Documentation of Mandated Discharge Summary Components in Transitions from Acute to Subacute Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Kind_31.pdf
    March 31, 2008 - and patient safety, no studies have examined how well discharge summaries adhere to Joint Commission standards … Additionally, it is not clear to what extent these standards are met in hospital discharge summaries … Secondly, the Joint Commission standards themselves affect practice patterns substantially. … whether such standards are sufficient to maximize patient safety during care transitions. … Most discharge summaries in our sample adequately meet most of the Joint Commission standards.

59. eCare Plan Resources and Publications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ecareplan/resources-publications/index.html
    May 01, 2025 - Plan Implementation Guide and Plain Language Summary HL7, or Health Level Seven International, creates standards … Partnering With HL7 The standards development components of the project were developed together with … During testing, the eCare Plan apps enabled standards-based sharing of some data and revealed areas for … Publications Establishing Data Elements and Exchange Standards to Support Long COVID Healthcare and Research

60. Appendix 2-A. Application and System Development Requirements | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/pubcomguide/pcguide2apa.html
    November 01, 2018 - Standards for Contractors Developing Multimedia Products Appendix 1-E. … Accessibility and the Revised 508 Standards Appendix 2-C. … External Linking Policy Section 3: Branding Design Element Specifications Section 4: Media Standards … The contractor must also conform to AHRQ Configuration Management (CM) and change control standards, … Management Institute Project Management Body of Knowledge standards.