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1. Data Sources for Health Care Quality Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   July 01, 2018 - Easy for consumers to understand and relate to survey results. … https://www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/understand/index.html  

2. AHRQ’s Easy-to-Understand Telehealth Consent Form | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2020 - Home Health Literacy Health Literacy Improvement Tools AHRQ’s Easy-to-Understand … Why should we use easy-to-understand telehealth consent forms? … Clinicians can use the easy-to-understand language from the form when they are having the consent discussion … Can we use the AHRQ Easy-to-Understand Telehealth Consent Form as is? No. … AHRQ Easy-to-Understand Telehealth Consent Form  (Word, 27 KB) How to Obtain Consent for Telehealth

3. The Influence and Use of Individual Patient Comments | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   February 01, 2016 - What does it mean to understand a risk? Evaluating risk comprehension. … https://www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/understand/patient-comments.html  

4. Understand Just Culture | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   July 01, 2018 - Healthcare-Associated Infections Program About the CUSP Method Videos Understand … Reports Videos Decolonization – Universal and Targeted Tools Understand … Understand "Just Culture" [5 min. 32 sec.] … Page last reviewed July 2018 Page originally created February 2013 Internet Citation: Understand

5. More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2019 - More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions 1 MORE EFFORT IS NEEDED … TO ENSURE PATIENTS UNDERSTAND DOCTORS’ INSTRUCTIONS Did you know? … health literacy.1 That means almost 9 out of 10 Americans find it challenging “to obtain, process, and understand … make appropriate health decisions.”2 Several communication strategies help patients and providers understand … It is an evidence-based technique to confirm that people have explained things in a manner others understand

6. Plain Language at AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2021 - Writing Act of 2010 requires federal agencies to write clear Government communication that the public can understand … The Act requires federal agencies to write "clear Government communication that the public can understand … Part of AHRQ's mission is to provide Americans with health information that people can easily understand … Provide white space between sections to break up text and to make it easier for readers to understand … Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) to assess whether readers whether patients will be able to understand

7. Explain and Motivate Use of Healthcare Quality Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2019 - one of the great challenges of constructing a report card: Without some explanation, people will not understand … going through pieces of your report with an individual and asking them questions to find out: Do they understand … Do they understand why the material is there in the first place? … cognitive testing to explore alternative ways of talking about a particular issue, to see which one people understand

8. Health Literacy Improvement Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2024 - Tools and Resources Health literate healthcare organizations make it easier for people to navigate, understand … create a My Medicines List , the Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool & User's Guide ,  easy-to-understand … The RED Toolkit includes templates for easy-to-understand discharge instructions and post-discharge telephone … AHRQ's Easy-to-Understand Telehealth Consent Form AHRQ's telehealth consent resources include a  … sample telehealth consent form  (Word, 27 KB) that is easy to understand and how-to guidance for clinicians

9. How to Obtain Consent for Telehealth | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2020 - forms is to document that a discussion took place and that the patient was informed and was able to understand … Use easy-to-understand language. Use the teach-back method to confirm patient understanding. … To make sure I’m doing a good job, I ask every patient to tell me what you understand about telehealth … and "Do you understand?" Offer to read the form aloud to all patients.

10. Why Does the Writing in a Health Care Quality Report Matter? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2011 - Information is clear if the audience for that information can understand it. … in background knowledge, literacy skills, and other characteristics that affect how easily they can understand … reading skills of consumers suggests that a large number of American adults would struggle to read and understand … audience, you may want to consider recruiting and training people who can help members of your audience understand … Write Text That’s Easy for Your Audience To Understand Tip 2.

11. Translate Health Care Quality Data Into Usable Information | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2016 - The job of report sponsors is to present scores in a way that makes them engaging, easy to understand … approaches for developing valid and reliable scores that are fair to providers and easy for people to understand … that translate medical terminology into plain English, and provide other information to help users understand … Understand how to organize measures and scores into digestible quantities and help people quickly get

12. SHARE Approach Workshop Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - When do patients need to use and understand health numbers?       Slide 44. … Patients need to understand numbers when:       Slide 45. … Patients need to understand numbers when:       Slide 46. … Present numbers in a way your patients can understand—Read aloud       Slide 48. … Make sure you present the information in a way your patients understand.

13. Supplemental Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Site Infection Investigation Tool ( Word , 1.8 MB) This tool will help your safety program team understand … Surgical Skin Preparation Audit Tool ( Word , 1.57 MB) This tool will help your team understand how … Antibiotic Audit Tool ( Word , 1.6 MB) This tool will help your safety program team understand how … Normothermia Audit Tool ( Word , 1.59 MB) This tool will help your safety program team understand … Additional Resources Barrier Identification and Mitigation Tool ( Word , 1.73 MB) Understand where

14. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 2) (doc file)
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    February 24, 2011 - Family or friends can: Give you comfort and support Help you keep track of and understand information … Let doctors and nurses know right away if there is something you do not understand. … You can say, “I’m not sure I understand what you just said. Can you tell me again?” … Keep asking until you understand. … If you got an answer but still do not understand, please ask again.

15. About Health Literacy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - started to take responsibility to ensure that everyone, especially the vulnerable, is able to find, understand … Personal Health Literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and … Organizational Health Literacy is the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand

16. Use the Teach-Back Method: Tool 5 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Tool 9 Language Access Resources Consider Culture: Tool 10 Assess, Select, and Create Easy-to-Understand … "Do you understand?" and "Does that make sense?" are NOT teach-back questions. … Patients are likely to answer "yes" whether they understand or not. Use the show-me method. … I had no idea she did not understand.…  I was so wrapped up in delivering the message that I did not … For example, staff making appointments may use it to ensure that patients understand what is required

17. Patient Education and Engagement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - Sign up:  Health Literacy and Shared Decision Making updates Healthcare works best when patients understand … However, materials are frequently difficult for patients and families to understand. … Make improvements by: Developing a process to Assess, Select, and Create Easy-to-Understand Materials … strategy to ensure that you have explained information clearly so that patients and their families understand … modules--teach strategies that healthcare organizations and care teams can use to ensure that people understand

18. Provide a Framework for Understanding Healthcare Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2022 - public may not have a clear “mental model” of healthcare quality, which can make it hard for them to understand … To overcome these common barriers, you can provide a simple framework that will help people understand … Consumers seem to understand the following three phrases, which address virtually all of the measures

19. Displaying the Data in a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2019 - It also needs to be accurate and easy to understand. … The golden rule of chart design is as follows: If people need a lot of explanation to understand your … The ability of consumers to understand and interpret the symbols will play a large role in determining … People generally understand that more symbols—for example, more stars—convey better performance. … Limit the Size of Tables Anyone who has tried to understand a table that shows the benefits offered

20. Supplemental Items for the CAHPS Hospital Adult Survey: Health Literacy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - During this hospital stay, how often did nurses use medical words you did not understand?       … During this hospital stay, how often did doctors use medical words you did not understand?     … How often was the explanation of what the test was for easy to understand?     … How often were the results of your blood test, x-ray, or other test easy to understand?     … Was this information about how to take care of yourself at home easy to understand?