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CUSP: A Framework for Success (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality CUSP: A Framework for Success (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Best Practices: How Successful Units Engaged Their Senior Executive Leaders (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Stories of Success: Using CUSP To Improve Safety (pdf file) Physician Engagement (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Preventing CAUTI: Engaging Clinicians and Senior Leadership to Implement Change (May 14, 2013) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance (pdf file) Using the Opportunity Estimator (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Webinar Transcript - Advancing the National Quality Strategy: An Introduction to the Stakeholder Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Webinar Transcript - Advancing the National Quality Strategy: An Introduction to the Stakeholder Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Webinar Transcript - Advancing the National Quality Strategy: An Introduction to the Stakeholder Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Using the Opportunity Estimator (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance (pdf file) Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance (pdf file) In Conversation With… Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH | PSNet Patient and Family-Centered Care (April 9, 2013) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient-Family-Centered-Care-Transcript (doc file) Patient and Family-Centered Care (April 9, 2013) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient-Family-Centered-Care-Transcript (doc file) Strengthening the Business Case for Patient Safety | PSNet FAQs
  • CUSP: A Framework for Success (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    April 01, 2013 - In Michigan, this work has been sustained. … All of this information is spelled out in more detail in the CUSP manual, which you all have access to … The science of safety presents, in very easy-to-understand snippets, information about systems. … How are we going to harm patients with catheters?" … To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below

  • CUSP: A Framework for Success (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    April 01, 2013 - In Michigan, this work has been sustained. … All of this information is spelled out in more detail in the CUSP manual, which you all have access to … The science of safety presents, in very easy-to-understand snippets, information about systems. … How are we going to harm patients with catheters?" … To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below

  • Best Practices: How Successful Units Engaged Their Senior Executive Leaders (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    April 01, 2013 - So, I think it was it was very easy to get buy-ins from our staff and from our senior leaders. … you do for our patients because without you, we certainly would not be able to be able to brag a little … to patients. … program a lot after the Michigan, the adult, and but we threw in the peds. … To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below

  • Stories of Success: Using CUSP To Improve Safety (pdf file)

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    October 01, 2012 - the Michigan Health & Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality to apply … Parker said, “Culturally, that’s not an easy place to get to for nurses, but they knew they would be … Keystone’s aim was to improve patient safety, reduce errors and improve outcomes in Michigan ICUs by … in caring for critically ill patients. … return to their regular physician when released and mortality for the patients who were cared for in

  • Physician Engagement (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    April 01, 2013 - to look at it, a paper in The Milbank Quarterly entitled “Why Michigan Worked.” … Well, the prime difference between providing care for individual patients and focusing on patient safety … And your job is to get some ground truth and minimize those barriers so you make it easy for your clinicians … So it’s not an easy task, but as I say, if there are 25 percent of hospitals in Michigan who can go 2 … To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below

  • Preventing CAUTI: Engaging Clinicians and Senior Leadership to Implement Change (May 14, 2013) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    December 01, 2017 - Depending on the patient population in the study, up to 25 percent of in-patients are catheterized sometime … Johns in Detroit, Michigan. … was a statistically significant greater decrease in Michigan hospitals compared to non-Michigan hospitals … I think the keyword here is "standardization," so that we make the right thing to do, the easy thing … To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below

  • Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2014 - Plans (ACAP), Washington, DC Francis Fullam, MA, Senior Director of Marketing Research and the Patient … of their clients. … It provides information on access by using questions such as, how easy was it to get appointments and … That is, how easy it was to get hold of a practice, how easy it was to get an appointment, and how well … Several questions came in regarding access to respondent level data for research purposes.

  • Using the Opportunity Estimator (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    April 01, 2013 - But realistically, when we started this work back in Michigan in 2003, the opportunity calculator, which … I can remember, again, back in the early days of the Michigan project, I think for the first time, quality … and patient safety were on the radar screen of senior leaders. … So, just in summary about the opportunity estimator, it's easy to use and we suggest and we encourage … To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below

  • Webinar Transcript - Advancing the National Quality Strategy: An Introduction to the Stakeholder Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    November 01, 2016 - Nancy Wilson, who serves as a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and … To make it easy for you, your browser will be automatically directed to the Working for Quality Web site … We need to care for the "pre-patient" -- people in communities before they ever cross the door into health … responsible for -- as I was describing to you earlier in my own experience at the University of Michigan … Sign up for Email Updates To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences

  • Webinar Transcript - Advancing the National Quality Strategy: An Introduction to the Stakeholder Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    November 01, 2016 - Nancy Wilson, who serves as a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and … To make it easy for you, your browser will be automatically directed to the Working for Quality Web site … We need to care for the "pre-patient" -- people in communities before they ever cross the door into health … responsible for -- as I was describing to you earlier in my own experience at the University of Michigan … Sign up for Email Updates To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences

  • Webinar Transcript - Advancing the National Quality Strategy: An Introduction to the Stakeholder Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    November 01, 2016 - Nancy Wilson, who serves as a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and … To make it easy for you, your browser will be automatically directed to the Working for Quality Web site … We need to care for the "pre-patient" -- people in communities before they ever cross the door into health … responsible for -- as I was describing to you earlier in my own experience at the University of Michigan … Sign up for Email Updates To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences

  • Using the Opportunity Estimator (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/estimator.html

    April 01, 2013 - But realistically, when we started this work back in Michigan in 2003, the opportunity calculator, which … I can remember, again, back in the early days of the Michigan project, I think for the first time, quality … and patient safety were on the radar screen of senior leaders. … probably represents about this much money or this much opportunity to free up beds for other patients … So, just in summary about the opportunity estimator, it's easy to use and we suggest and we encourage

  • Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance (pdf file)

    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20140115_DB/Final_Using_the_CAHPS_Database_Webcast_Transcript.pdf

    January 01, 2014 - Plans (ACAP), Washington, DC Francis Fullam, MA, Senior Director of Marketing Research and the Patient … of their clients. … It provides information on access by using questions such as, how easy was it to get appointments and … That is, how easy it was to get hold of a practice, how easy it was to get an appointment, and how well … Several questions came in regarding access to respondent level data for research purposes.

  • Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance (pdf file)

    ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20140115_DB/Final_Using_the_CAHPS_Database_Webcast_Transcript.pdf

    January 01, 2014 - Plans (ACAP), Washington, DC Francis Fullam, MA, Senior Director of Marketing Research and the Patient … of their clients. … It provides information on access by using questions such as, how easy was it to get appointments and … That is, how easy it was to get hold of a practice, how easy it was to get an appointment, and how well … Several questions came in regarding access to respondent level data for research purposes.

  • In Conversation With… Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH | PSNet

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    May 01, 2013 - When I look at what Pronovost did initially at Johns Hopkins then for Michigan , it's a herculean … the median central line infection rate in Michigan fell to zero. … the easy policy fixes here is if CMS just requires that if you want to take care of Medicare patients … actually fun and easy and good to use. … [go to PubMed] 20. Ryan AM. Has pay-for-performance decreased access for minority patients?

  • Patient and Family-Centered Care (April 9, 2013) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    December 01, 2017 - Joseph's Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. … several easy ways to do this. … It's not easy to think through how we might need to change the way we practice in order to meet the needs … Joe's Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a little bit of what brought me to the Council. … Sign up for Email Updates To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences

  • Patient-Family-Centered-Care-Transcript (doc file)

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    April 09, 2013 - Joseph's Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. … several easy ways to do this. … So, this stuff isn't easy. … It's not easy to think through how we might need to change the way we practice in order to meet the needs … Joe's Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a little bit of what brought me to the Council.

  • Patient and Family-Centered Care (April 9, 2013) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/patient-family-centered-care-transcript.html

    December 01, 2017 - Joseph's Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. … several easy ways to do this. … So, this stuff isn't easy. … It's not easy to think through how we might need to change the way we practice in order to meet the needs … Joe's Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a little bit of what brought me to the Council.

  • Patient-Family-Centered-Care-Transcript (doc file)

    ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/patient-family-centered-care-transcript.doc

    April 09, 2013 - Joseph's Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. … several easy ways to do this. … So, this stuff isn't easy. … It's not easy to think through how we might need to change the way we practice in order to meet the needs … Joe's Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a little bit of what brought me to the Council.

  • Strengthening the Business Case for Patient Safety | PSNet

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    May 01, 2013 - [go to PubMed] 20. Ryan AM. Has pay-for-performance decreased access for minority patients? … the median central line infection rate in Michigan fell to zero. … the easy policy fixes here is if CMS just requires that if you want to take care of Medicare patients … actually fun and easy and good to use. … Access to Their Records.

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    HEDIS data, unlike CAHPS data, do not contain the patient's self-reported race/ethnicity. Therefore, race/ethnicity was imputed for the HEDIS data using a methodology that combines information from administrative data, surname, and residential location (Martino et al., 2013).

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