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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/overcome/mindsets.html
April 01, 2022 - Overcoming Mindsets
It can be difficult to address your staff’s underlying attitudes and beliefs about infection prevention practices. Many teams struggle to believe that reducing the number of infections to zero is possible or to find the passion to keep this work going. With time, effort, and shared understan…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-ch-hospital-webcast-122223-bakdash.pdf
June 02, 2025 - CAHPS Child Hospital Survey: The CAHPS Program
AHRQ’S CAHPS® PROGRAM
Jonathan Bakdash, Ph.D.
Social Science Analyst, CAHPS® & SOPS® Programs
Center for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety,
AHRQ
AHRQ’s Core Competencies
• AHRQ is a research and development agency in the US Department of Health
and Human Servi…
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www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/national-measures/index.html
April 01, 2025 - National Healthcare Safety Measures
The National Action Alliance uses multiple resources to measure trends in patient and workforce safety. Links to these resources and descriptions of them are below. Use these measurement resources to understand trends in patient safety at the national level and benchmark safe…
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/cfact/index.html
June 01, 2025 - Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends (CFACT)
Conducts, supports, and manages studies of the cost and financing of health care, the access to health care services and related trends. CFACT also develops data sets to support policy and behavioral research and analyses.
The Director of CFACT is Dr. Samu…
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/healthit-ed-1.html
February 01, 2021 - Health Information Technology for Engaging Patients in Diagnostic Decision Making in Emergency Departments
Introduction
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Health Information Technology for Engaging Patients in Diagnostic Decision Making in Emergency Departments
Introduction
Electronic Pat…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/recent-insights-webcast-ginsberg.pdf
June 02, 2025 - AHRQ Webcast Recent Insights into CAHPS Survey Modes and Response Rates - Ginsberg
AHRQ’S CAHPS® Program
Caren Ginsberg, Ph.D., CPXP
Center for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety, AHRQ
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AHRQ’s Core Competencies
• Health Systems Research: Invest in research and evidence to
make healthcare safer and improve q…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/hcbs-2021-webcast-ahrq.pdf
January 01, 2021 - Introducing a New Database for Users of the CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS CAHPS) Survey - GINSBERG
AHRQ’S CAHPS® PROGRAM
Caren Ginsberg, Ph.D., CPXP
Director, CAHPS and Surveys on Patient Safety Culture
(SOPS) Programs
Center for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety, AHRQ
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AHRQ’s Core Compe…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/obtoolkit-tool9.html
March 01, 2014 - Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity
Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity
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Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Pati…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/video/module-4-mutual-support-participant-worksheet.pdf
June 02, 2025 - TeamSTEPPS Mutual Support Facilitator Participant Worksheet
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/building-community/index.html
December 01, 2023 - Research Communities
AHRQ offers many resources to enable and encourage a growing primary care research community. These resources range from networks of primary care clinicians and practices working together to answer community-based research questions to tools and guidance to clinicians on how to integrate be…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/womenhealth/index.html
March 01, 2020 - Chartbook on Women's Health Care
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Chartbook on Women's Health Care
Acknowledgments
Women's Health Care
Key Findings of the 2014 QDR
2014 Chartbooks
Access to Health Care
Affordability
Communication and Care Coordination
Effective Treatment of Leading Causes…
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www.ahrq.gov/pcor/ahrq-pcor-trust-fund-training-projects/pcortf-tp-evaluation-report.html
August 01, 2024 - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund Training Program Evaluation Report
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 authorized AHRQ to develop the skills of researchers to build capacity for future comparative effectiveness research (CER). With support from the Patient-Centered O…
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/pressure-ulcers.html
Pressure Ulcers
Each year, more than 2.5 million people in the United States develop pressure ulcers. These skin lesions bring pain, associated risk for serious infection, and increased health care utilization. Pressure ulcers are associated with longer hospital stays and increased morbidity and m…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science-brief1.pdf
April 02, 2020 - For example, the Revised Safer Dx Instrument97 is a validated tool that can be used to do an
initial … “Global trigger tool” shows that adverse events in hospitals may be ten times greater
than previously … Use of the Global Trigger Tool in patient safety
improvement efforts: Nordic experiences.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science.pdf
April 02, 2020 - For example, the Revised Safer Dx Instrument97 is a validated tool that can be used to do an
initial … “Global trigger tool” shows that adverse events in hospitals may be ten times greater
than previously … Use of the Global Trigger Tool in patient safety
improvement efforts: Nordic experiences.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lannon2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - for Patient Safety: In 2007, the CERT funded work on identifying Adverse Drug Events using
trigger tool … associated AKI in hospitalized children (NINJA, Goldstein)
• Developed and validated a predictive trigger tool … It is also being used
by all current networks as a strategic planning tool to identify areas of opportunity
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/0129references.pdf
October 23, 2013 - Adding hospital readmission data to the Hospital Compare web
tool. … //www.lmpolicyresearch.com/case-study/incorporating-hospital-
readmission-data-hospital-compare-web-tool
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/bolton-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - We also created an easy-to-use tool so that
medical alarm designers can apply our method and findings … The tool further enables parameter
exploration so that an engineer can find changes to an alarm’s design … By giving engineers and
hospitals a tool to design and deploy alarms that avoid audibility problems … Medical Alarm Audibility System Checker (MAASC): A Computational Tool for Checking
Medical Alarm Configurations … Medical Alarm Audibility
System Checker (MAASC): A Computational Tool for Checking Medical Alarm
Configurations
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/vanschaik-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The original tool used the term
“interdisciplinary team” instead of “interprofessional team.” … We incorporated the tool into an
online survey instrument (Qualtrics™, Provo, UT) and piloted it with … 0.05
Ratings of team performance during simulation sessions based on video review using the
MHTPS tool … Member checking: a tool to enhance
trustworthiness or merely a nod to validation? … or put IVs in
Physician Facilitator: Instructions for observers
“Observers will be filling out a tool
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/esrd/resource/tool-module.html
January 01, 2015 - ESRD Toolkit Modules
Modules contain PowerPoint slides, facilitator notes, video vignettes, and tools. Each module includes teaching tools and resources to support change at the unit level, presented through facilitator notes that take you step by step through the slides, tools, and videos.
Creating a Culture…