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21. 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.

22. 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

23. Topic: Word Choice & Style | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2020 -        Agree = 1 Explanation The material should use common, everyday language that would be easy to understand … than a few abbreviations or acronyms, even if they are spelled out, the material will be difficult to understand … The explanation of a medical term should also be easy to understand. … The active voice is preferable to the passive voice because it is easier to understand.

24. SHARE Approach Workshop Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/shared-decision/workshop/mod3-guide.html
    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.

25. Step 3: Talk With Your Doctor | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2020 - This person can help ask questions, take notes, and help you remember and understand everything once … Keep asking until you understand the answers. … If you do not, your doctor may think you understand everything that is said. … Ask your doctor to draw pictures if that will help you understand something. Take notes. … Make sure you understand what will happen if you need surgery.

26. Understand the Science of Safety for Perinatal Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Hospital Labor and Delivery Units Perinatal Safety Toolkit Toolkit Pillars Understand … Patient Safety News and Events Education & Training Resources Understand … AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care Slide 1: AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care Understand … Slide 16: Understand the Science of Safety: What the Team Must Do Develop a plan so all staff on … your unit view the Understand the Science of Safety videos Track staff participation in viewing the

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. Topic: Layout & Design | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2020 - Arrows Taken from CDC, Simply Put: A Guide for Creating Easy-To-Understand Materials . http://www.cdc.gov … are overcrowded with words or have text that flashes briefly on the screen are difficult to read and understand … The narrator or voiceover should not be speaking too fast nor should it be garbled or hard to understand

33. Supplemental Items for the CAHPS Hospital Adult Survey: Health Literacy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/literacy/suppl-healthlit-items.html
    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?    

34. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Learn About the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program
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    May 01, 2017 - Program for Perinatal Care SPPC CUSP Modules Learn About CUSP Assemble the Team/Engage Leadership Understand … Understand the Science of Safety Step 2. Create a guiding coalition. … Identify Defects Through Sensemaking Understand the Science of Safety Step 3. Define the aims. … Identify Defects Through Sensemaking Understand the Science of Safety 25 Learn About CUSP AHRQ Safety … Understand the Science of Safety Step 8. Develop a communication plan.

35. AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training Modules for Health Care Leaders and Professionals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2023 - Professionals Sign up: Health Literacy and Cultural Competence updates Many individuals do not understand … , engaging communication strategies that hospitals and clinical teams can use to ensure that people understand … What to consider when establishing libraries of easy-to-understand informed consent forms and high quality

36. AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Toolkit offers evidence-based guidance to help healthcare providers make health information easier to understand … Organizational Health Literacy is the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand … Personal Health Literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and … universal precautions—the structuring of health information and services in ways that everyone can understand

37. Core CUSP Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2019 - Modules Learn About CUSP Assemble the Team Engage the Senior Executive Understand … Understand the Science of Safety The Understand the Science of Safety module of the CUSP Toolkit … Family Engagement module of the CUSP Toolkit focuses on making sure patients and their family members understand

38. Implementation Guide for AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice Training Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - Was the explanation about what might go wrong and how likely it was easy to understand? … Was the description of your other options easy to understand? … How easy was the form to understand? … 1 |___| Very hard to understand. 2 |___| Somewhat hard to understand. 3 |___| Somewhat easy to understand … . 4 |___| Very easy to understand.

39. Section 7.E, Tables 15 and 16 (pdf file)
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    March 12, 2018 - Messaging Appropriate written visit summary content Written visit summary was useful and easy to understand … Appropriate written hospitalization summary content Written hospitalization summary was easy to understand … Appropriate written visit summary content Written visit summary was useful and easy FECC-10 86.7 88.4 to understand … summary FECC-12 89.8 85.5 content Written hospitalization summary was easy to FECC-13 92.1 92.2 understand

40. Topic: Use of Visual Aids | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2020 - 1 Explanation The material should use a visual aid whenever it would make the content easier to understand … This also includes using graphic displays to make numeric information easier to understand. … Explanation For the user to understand the content covered in an illustration or photograph, the image