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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/diagnostic-safety-tops-the-list.html
March 01, 2024 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders
When It Comes to High-Quality Healthcare, Diagnostic Safety Tops the List
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12
2024
By
Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A., and
Stephen Raab, M.D.
As we celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week 2024 , AHRQ again places particular em…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/about/CAHPS-Database-Brief_01_2014.pdf
January 01, 2014 - The CAHPS Database
The CAHPS Database
The CAHPS Database is funded by
the U.S. Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to
support the use of the Consumer
Assessment of Healthcare Providers
and Systems (CAHPS®) patient
experience surveys by health plans,
medical groups and practices. CAHPS
survey…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/consumer-reporting/research/index.html
May 01, 2022 - Research on Reporting Information to Consumers
The ability to report CAHPS ® survey results in a way that supports consumers in making informed decisions has been a key element of the CAHPS project since its inception in the mid-1990s. 1 Over the years, the CAHPS grantees have conducted numerous studies to an…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/index.html
November 01, 2024 - EvidenceNOW Projects
The EvidenceNOW initiative, one of AHRQ’s solutions for revitalizing the nation’s primary care system, uses a model of external support to help primary care practices implement the latest evidence into practice and improve their capacity for quality improvement. The EvidenceNOW model use…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/guidesum.html
March 01, 2016 - Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism
Executive Summary
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Table of Contents
Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism
Preface
Executive Summary
Chapter 1. The Framework for Improvement
Chapter 2. Analyze Care Delivery
Chapter 3. Outline the…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/fry-administering.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Understanding CAHPS Surveys: A Primer for New Users - CAHPS 101
CAHPS 101
Stephanie Fry
Senior Study Director
Westat
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What is Patient Experience?
Patient experience refers to what happened in a health care setting. It
encompasses the range of interactions that patients have with the health care
system, inc…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/resources/diagnostic-toolkit/08-diagnostic-cap-provider-training-slides.pptx
August 01, 2021 - During field testing of the toolkit, providers gave us several tips they used in their practice to help
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/fac-notes.html
October 01, 2020 - When first testing changes you hope will improve a safety process, you will go through multiple PDSA … Therefore, after testing an improvement through multiple PDSA cycles and implementation, a long-term
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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-facnotes.docx
May 01, 2017 - When first testing changes you hope will improve a safety process, you will go through multiple PDSA … Therefore, after testing an improvement through multiple PDSA cycles and implementation, a long-term
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/yang-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - .
• The testing datasets were developed.
4.2.2 SA2 – Develop novel algorithms and methods to improve … It is our main platform for developing, testing and
evaluating new chart checking functions and new
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/mcc-summit/mcc-summit-proceedings.pdf
October 01, 2021 - He stressed the importance of involving the user in developing and
testing possible solutions to an … anticipated implementation challenges to sustained use by clinicians using rapid-
cycle real world testing
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www.ahrq.gov/gam/summaries/domain-definitions/index.html
July 01, 2018 - NQMC Measure Domain Definitions
Health Care Delivery Measure Domains
Measures of care delivered to individuals and populations defined by their relationship to clinicians, clinical delivery teams, delivery organizations, or health insurance plans. Denominators for these measures are defined by some form of af…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part2-diabetes.html
May 01, 2018 - Chartbook for Hispanic Health Care
Part 2: Trends in Priorities of the Heckler Report—Care for Diabetes
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Table of Contents
Chartbook for Hispanic Health Care
Acknowledgments
Health Care For Hispanics
National Quality Strategy Priorities: Patient Safety
National Quality…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/dyer-prelim-results.pdf
April 01, 2011 - Using the AHRQ Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture Webinar - Dyer
1
1
Preliminary Comparative
Results and Analyses from the
Medical Office Survey on
Patient Safety Culture
Naomi Dyer, PhD
Joann Sorra, PhD
Kabir Khanna, MA
Westat
Rockville, MD
April 2011
2
2
Objectives
• Present comparative re…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/guide-implement.html
November 01, 2017 - Creating a Culture of Safety in the Ambulatory Surgery Environment: Implementation Guide
Implementing the Surgical Safety Checklist
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Table of Contents
Creating a Culture of Safety in the Ambulatory Surgery Environment: Implementation Guide
Overview
The Comprehensive Unit-b…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/antibiotic-patient-safety-slides.pptx
June 01, 2021 - PowerPoint Presentation
Improving Antibiotic Use Is a Patient Safety Issue
Long-Term Care
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use
AHRQ Pub. No. 17(21)-0029
June 2021
Patient Safety
1
Objectives
Discuss the potential harms associated with antibiotic use
Recognize that patient harm is largely preventable
R…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/04-nh_webcast-famolaro.pdf
September 21, 2022 - SOPS Nursing Home Survey: What You Need To Know - Theresa Famolaro, MPS, MS, MBA
The SOPS Nursing Home Survey and
Database
Theresa Famolaro, MPS, MS, MBA
Senior Study Director and Database Manager
User Network for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)
Westat
Survey User’s Guide
• On the AHRQ SOPS W…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/new-sops-workplace-safety-zebrak.pdf
July 22, 2022 - New AHRQ SOPS® Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals - Zebrak
Workplace Safety Supplemental Items
for the SOPS Hospital Survey
Katarzyna Zebrak, PhD
Senior Study Director
Westat
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Workplace Safety Supplemental Items
• Designed as a supplemental item set that can be added toward
the end of th…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/hospitals/red-toolkit/postdisphone.docx
June 02, 2025 - Postdischarge Followup Phone Call Script (Patient Version)
This form reinforces the information provided to the patient at discharge. The patient’s discharge information should be available to the interviewer at the time of this call.
CALLER: Hello Mr./Ms. _____________. I am [caller’s name], a [type of clinician] from…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/hospitals/red-toolkit/postdisphone.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Postdischarge Followup Phone Call Script (Patient Version)
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Postdischarge Followup Phone Call Script (Patient Version)
This form reinforces the information provided to the patient at discharge. The patient’s discharge
information should be available to the interviewer at the time of this call.
CALLER: Hello Mr…