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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/writing/tip2.html
July 01, 2011 - Tip 2. In a Quality Report, Be Concise and Well-Organized
Generally speaking, people do not read any more than is necessary, so brevity is critical to improving the odds that people actually read a report.
Focus on the Essential Information
Readers of report cards tend to turn immediately to visual displa…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/cahptab.html
December 01, 2017 - Factors for Selecting Performance Measures
The Child Health Toolbox contains concepts, tips, and tools for evaluating the quality of health care for children.
Factors
CAHPS®
HCUP QIs
HEDIS®
Title V
Suitable for comparing?
Yes, if CAHPS® specifications followed.
Not designed for com…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/cost-guide/methodology-options.html
February 01, 2017 - Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation: A Practical Guide and Synthesis Report
Exhibit 1. Methodological Options for Estimating the Costs of Transforming Primary Care
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Table of Contents
Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation: A Practical Guide and Syn…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/findref.html
March 01, 2017 - Assessing the Health and Welfare of the HCBS Population
References
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Table of Contents
Assessing the Health and Welfare of the HCBS Population
Introduction
HCBS Population
Availability and Use of State Medicaid HCBS
Outcome Indicators for the HCBS Population
Outcomes …
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/candor-demo-program/plan-grants/findings.html
August 01, 2022 - Clinician responses were more varied and were affected by type of adverse event, but they did agree with
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/CHSP-accomplishments-report-2021.pdf
January 01, 2021 - Delivery Systems and Outcomes in Four States: Project 2 focused on how care varied within
and across … However, implementation of health IT varied across health systems, and systems differ in
their health … system participation increased for primary care and the 10 other
physician specialties…however, rates varied … priority population: Machta, et al. (2019) examined how the
characteristics of safety net hospitals varied … ”
– Beaulieu, et al. (2020)
“Scores varied widely across hospitals and practices, but little of
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/primer-patient-experience.pdf
April 02, 2025 - What is Patient Experience and How Does CAHPS Measure It?
WHAT IS PATIENT EXPERIENCE
AND HOW DOES CAHPS
MEASURE IT?
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 pat…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/mcaidread_tool3_hosp_inv.docx
April 02, 2025 - Tool 3: Hospital Inventory
Tool 3: Hospital Inventory Tool
Purpose
Readmission reduction efforts at your hospital have likely proliferated over the past several years, and many of these efforts may have developed in isolation from each other. The purpose of this tool is to prompt a comprehensive inventory of all r…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/data/chsp-brief1-snapshot-of-us-health-systems-2016.pdf
January 01, 2016 - Snapshot of U.S. Health Systems, 2016
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Snapshot of U.S. Health Systems, 2016
Comparative
Health System
Performance
Initiative
Note: The hospital figures represent all non-Federal general acute care hospitals in the United States.
By the end of 2016, there were 626 health systems* in the United States.
Agen…
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/international/nursing-home/translators.html
October 01, 2014 - Participating nursing homes varied by bed size, geographic region, urbanicity, and ownership.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/medication/tool-safe-oxytocin.html
July 01, 2023 - Safe Medication Administration: Oxytocin
AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care
Purpose of the tool: This tool describes the key perinatal safety elements with examples for the safe administration of oxytocin during labor. The key elements are presented within the framework of the Comprehensive U…
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/media/printed-report.html
September 01, 2019 - Delivering Quality Reports in Print
While Web reports are becoming increasingly common, print used to be the most prevalent way to publish performance results and continues to be well suited to certain audiences. This medium enables sponsors to present text and graphics in a way that feels comfortable and famil…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/helpful-resources/planning/Develop-an-Evaluation-Plan.html
December 01, 2019 - Step 6: Develop an Evaluation Plan
Review all steps in the process of planning a survey project:
Step 1: Form a Project Team .
Step 2: Form an Advisory Group .
Step 3: Define Your Goals .
Step 4: Plan a Communications Strategy .
Step 5: Set the Stage for Conducting the Survey .
Step 6: Develop …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/child-hcahps-introducing-survey-database.pdf
January 01, 2021 - Introducing the Child HCAHPS® Survey Database webcast-Shaller
INTRODUCING THE CHILD
HCAHPS SURVEY DATABASE
Dale Shaller, MPA
Senior Advisor, CAHPS Database
CAHPS Database Overview
• Participation is voluntary and open to all users of surveys supported
by the Database
• Annual cycle of submissions and reportin…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/primer-how-are-cahps-surveys-used.pdf
January 01, 2021 - How Are CAHPS® Survey Results Used?
HOW ARE CAHPS SURVEY
RESULTS USED?
Dale Shaller, M.P.A.
Principal
Shaller Consulting Group
Major Uses of CAHPS Surveys
• Public reporting
• Value-based purchasing
• Recognition and certification
• Research
Major Uses of CAHPS Surveys
• Public reporting
• Value-based…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-intro-qi.pdf
April 02, 2025 - Job Aid: Introduction to Quality Improvement
Primary Care Practice Facilitator
Training Series
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Job Aid: Introduction to Quality Improvement
Quality Improvement (QI) Basics
The QI Process
You will be helping practices to:
Identify areas for improvement.
Set goals.
Develop a plan that…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sdm/share-approach/share-conversation-starters.pdf
October 01, 2024 - The SHARE Approach: Conversation Starters
The SHARE Approach:
Conversation Starters
The SHARE Approach provides five elements to guide shared decision-making
discussions with patients. These can be used in any order, and you may need to use
some of the elements multiple times to reach a decision with your…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sdm/share-approach/05-SHARE-Cultural-Competence.pdf
October 25, 2024 - The SHARE Approach: Cultural Competence and Getting To Know Your Patient
The SHARE Approach:
Cultural Competence and
Getting To Know Your
Patient
Providers striving to deliver high-quality care to all patients understand that cultural
factors influence patients’ health beliefs, behaviors, and responses …
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/pay.html
November 01, 2018 - How Will You Pay for a Health Care Quality Report?
A consumer reporting project is not cheap, although there are ways to reduce costs and spread them across multiple parties (including other sponsors and participating health plans or providers). Data collection costs can range from as little as a few thousand…
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www.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/index.html
February 01, 2018 - All-Payer Claims Databases
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is undertaking activities to develop an effective and feasible approach for using all-payer claims databases to advance the goal of improving health care affordability, efficiency, and cost transparency.
Overview of All-Payer Claims Dat…