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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/ockt/kt/tools/diabsumm.html
October 01, 2014 - Diabetes Care Quality Improvement Workbook and Resource Guide
The Diabetes Workbook and Resource Guide provide guidance to State leaders to shape and form their diabetes care quality improvement initiatives.
What Do These Tools Do?
State leaders can use these tools to assess and design their diabetes care q…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/chronic-manual/index.html
February 01, 2017 - Integrating Chronic Care and Business Strategies in the Safety Net: A Practice Coaching Manual
Practice coaching can be an effective way to improve health care quality. This practice coaching manual aims to help effectively and efficiently improve clinical quality in an ambulatory setting by providi…
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/ockt/kt/tools/attend.html
October 01, 2014 - Who Should Participate?
Quality Diagnostic Tools for States
All State officials and parties with an interest in improving health care quality at the State level are invited to participate. PLEASE NOTE however, that the number of spaces allotted for some of the offerings will be limited.
"We gratefully…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/videos/02a-assemble-team/index.html
June 01, 2018 - Assemble the Team
CUSP Toolkit
The CUSP toolkit includes training tools to make care safer by improving the foundation of how your physicians, nurses, and other clinical team members work together. These videos reinforce the material presented in each module of the CUSP toolkit.
Assemble the Team [10 mi…
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www.ahrq.gov/contact/index.html
February 01, 2020 - Contact Us
Information about contacting AHRQ with questions, suggestions, or other feedback.
Your comments and concerns are important to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in helping to assess and improve our programs and products. Please send us your questions, suggestions, or other feedba…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/index.html
July 01, 2018 - How to Use the CUSP Toolkit
The CUSP Toolkit can help your team learn key principles that increase safety. Once you’ve learned the basics, add-on modules can help you target certain safety issues.
The CUSP Toolkit is modular. The core CUSP Toolkit is composed of instructional material that a unit leader (fa…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/advisorycouncil/adcouncilapb.html
April 01, 2018 - Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
Appendix B. Council Information Sheet and Application
A sample of the member information sheet and application for patients or caregivers for the Aurora Health Care Patient Safety Partnership Council follows. With minor edits, the informat…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/advisorycouncil/adcouncilapc.html
April 01, 2018 - Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
Appendix C. Confidentiality Statement
Patient advisory council members must sign confidentiality statements as part of their membership processing. A sample follows:
A federal law called "HIPAA" (Health Insurance Portability and Accounta…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/advisorycouncil/adcouncilapa.html
April 01, 2018 - Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
Appendix A. Project Goals and Objectives
Before they meet regularly, patient advisory councils need to establish project goals. Examples of project goals and objectives for small and large patient advisory councils follow.
A. Scope for a…
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www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/asthmaqual/index.html
October 01, 2014 - Improving the Quality of Asthma Care
New Tools for States
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed Asthma Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action and its companion workbook, Asthma Care Quality Improvement: A Workbook for State Action. These materials were design…
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/ockt/kt/tools/impuspstf/impuspstf1.html
October 01, 2014 - Implementing USPSTF Recommendations into Health Professions Education
Introduction
This document was developed as part of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) initiative to increase the use of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations and resources in campus and communit…
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/references/meta/index.html
October 01, 2014 - Studies in Meta-analyses
This Clinical Practice Guideline used the references below in meta-analyses of research on treating tobacco use and dependence. They are listed by table in the guideline:
Contents
Table 6.4 | Table 6.5 | Table 6.7 | Table 6.8 | Table 6.9 | Table 6.10 | Table …
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/ockt/kt/tools/impuspstf/impuspstf3.html
October 01, 2014 - Section 3. Appendix
Additional Prevention Materials and Resources from AHRQ
When you use The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services 2009 in the classroom or in practice, here are some additional products AHRQ developed based on the recommendations that you may find helpful. These items can be printed from yo…
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/references/meta/meta04.html
December 01, 2012 - Studies in Meta-analyses (continued, 4)
This Clinical Practice Guideline used the references below in meta-analyses of research on treating tobacco use and dependence.
Table 6.28. Meta-analysis (2008): Effectiveness and abstinence rates of medications relative to the nicotine patch (n = 86 studies)
Abelin T…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/patient-family-engagement/alt-text-tab.html
September 01, 2013 - Patient Family Engagement PowerPoint Content and Alternate Text
CUSP Toolkit
The Patient and Family Engagement module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Toolkit. The CUSP toolkit is a modular approach to patient safety, and modules presented in this toolkit are interconnected and are aimed …
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/patient-family-engagement/sl-pat-fam.html
September 01, 2013 - Patient and Family Engagement
CUSP Toolkit
The Patient and Family Engagement module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Toolkit. The CUSP toolkit is a modular approach to patient safety, and modules presented in this toolkit are interconnected and are aimed at improving patient safety.
Con…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/info-quality-guidelines.html
November 01, 2020 - Information Quality Guidelines
Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies
HHS Information Quality Guidelines
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Guidelines
Customer Feedback
Section 515 of the Treasury an…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/advisorycouncil/adcouncil2.html
April 01, 2018 - Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
Chapter 2. Patient Safety Advisory Councils
The success of any team requires active participation from every member. The approach health care systems traditionally take neglects the most critical member of the team—the patient. Programs an…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/advisorycouncil/adcouncilref.html
April 01, 2018 - Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
References
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. CAHPS®: Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. Accessed January 3, 2007. Available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/index.html .
Aspden P, Wolcott JA, Bootman L, Cron…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/advisorycouncil/adcouncilapf.html
April 01, 2018 - Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
Appendix F. Meeting Evaluation
Each council member should be asked to complete an evaluation after each meeting, and meeting leaders should share the results of these evaluations at every meeting. A sample evaluation form follows.
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