Track A: Transforming Health Care Delivery

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Quality Improvement Initiatives in Long-Term Care (Session 39)

Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign II (2010-2011) (PowerPoint® File, 3.4 MB; Web Version)
Charles Schade

Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes (PowerPoint® File, 2.3 MB; Web Version)
Mary Jane Koren

Quality Improvement Initiatives in Long-Term Care: Long-Term Care Quality Alliance (PowerPoint® File, 485 KB; Web Version)
Mary Naylor

Partnerships for Patients: Improving Care Transitions and Reducing Readmissions (Session 40)

Improving Care Transitions in Northwest Denver (PowerPoint® File, 4.8 MB; Web Version)
Risa Hayes

Innovations in Care Transitions: An Overview (PowerPoint® File, 170 KB; Web Version)
James Hester

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data Resources for Research and Policy (Session 106)

AHRQ Data Resources to Inform Health Policy Research: The Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS) (PowerPoint® File, 4.7 MB; Web Version)
Anita Soni

Improving Cardiovascular Disease Care Delivery; Innovators’ Stories (Session 8)

Web-based Team Care to Improve Hypertension Control: the e-BP Study and Beyond (PowerPoint® File, 1.3 MB; Web Version)
Beverly Green

Can Barbers Cut BP Too? The BARBER-1 Trial (PowerPoint® File, 3 MB; Web Version)
Ronald Victor

Multistakeholder Quality Collaboratives: Advancing Public Reporting One Community at a Time (Session 62)

MN Community Measurement (PowerPoint® File, 1.1 MB; Web Version)
Jim Chase

Community Quality Collaboratives: Accomplishments, Challenges and Opportunities (PowerPoint® File, 135 KB; Web Version)
Gary Young

Partnerships for Patients: Preventing Hospital-Acquired Conditions (Session 41)

Partnership for Patients: Preventing Hospital Acquired Conditions (PowerPoint® File, 1.5 MB; Web Version)
Dennis Wagner and Paul McGann

Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism (PowerPoint® File, 3.1 MB; Web Version)
Vicky Agramonte

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Data Resources for Research and Policy (Session 51)

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) (PowerPoint® File, 31 MB; Web Version)
Claudia Steiner and Hannah Davis

Understanding and Improving Care in the Emergency Department (Session 55)

Hospital Admission Rates Through the Emergency Department: An Important, Expensive Source of Variation (PowerPoint® File, 2 MB; Web Version)
Jesse Pines

The Development of Emergency Department Patient Quality/Safety Indicators (PowerPoint® File, 3 MB; Web Version)
Patrick S. Romano

AHRQ Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture (Session 108)

AHRQ's Patient Safety and Medical Liability Initiative (PowerPoint® File, 370 KB; Web Version)
James Battles

Is Patient Safety Culture Related to Nursing Home Quality? (PowerPoint® File, 900 KB; Web Version)
Naomi Dyer

Comparative Results from the AHRQ Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture (PowerPoint® File, 1.8 MB; Web Version)
Deborah Carpenter

Assessing the Impact of Two Major Studies on the Future of the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) (Session 6)

Impact of Two Studies on Future of NGC (PowerPoint® File, 1.1 MB; Web Version)
Mary Nix

Assessing the Impact of the IOM Report on the Future of the National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (PowerPoint® File, 4.3 MB; Web Version)
Richard Shiffman

Evaluation of the National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (PowerPoint® File, 335 KB; Web Version)
Michelle Tregear

Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (Session 34)

Extending the Search for High-Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) in Healthcare Organizations (PowerPoint® File, 2.2 MB; Web Version)
Ann Scheck McAlearney

The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) (PowerPoint® File, 370 KB; Web Version)
Melinda Sawyer

Hearing From MONAHRQ Users – One Application, Many Purposes (Session 50)

Future of MONAHRQ (PowerPoint® File, 390 KB; Web Version)
Carol Sniegoski

Arkansas Department of Health and MONAHRQ (PowerPoint® File, 1 MB; Web Version)
Connie Marie Ardwin

MONAHRQ: Input Your Data. Output Your Web Site. (PowerPoint® File, 1.5 MB; Web Version)
Anne Elixhauser

The Maine MONAHRQ Experience (PowerPoint® File, 2.2 MB; Web Version)
Susan Schow

Improving Performance on the Patient Safety Indicators: A New AHRQ Toolkit (Session 57)

AHRQ Toolkit: The Harborview Experience (PowerPoint® File, 1.2 MB; Web Version)
Ellen Robinson

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Serious Mental Illness – Looking Back, Looking Ahead (Session 11)

A Professional Association Perspective on Systematic Reviews and Their Utility for Guideline Development (PowerPoint® File, 225 KB; Web Version)
Joel Yager

Implementation of Delivery Service System Innovations in Mental Health: Challenges and Outcomes (PowerPoint® File, 230 KB; Web Version)
Stephen  Crystal

Effective Healthcare Program Initiatives in Future CER/PCOR in Mental Health (PowerPoint® File, 7.2 MB; Web Version)
Sonia Tyutyulkova

Collaborative Learning From Patient Safety: Presentation From PSOs and International Patient Safety Culture (Session 38)

Collaborative Learning from Patient Safety Organizations and International Patient Safety Culture (PowerPoint® File, 844 KB; Web Version)
William Munier

The AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture: Setting the Standard for Patient Safety Culture Around the Globe (PowerPoint® File, 820 KB; Web Version)
Joann Sorra

Collaborative Learning From Patient Safety: Presentation From PSOs and International Patient Safety Culture (PowerPoint® File, 730 KB; Web Version)
Timothy McDonald

Using CUSP as a Framework for Improving Patient Safety (PowerPoint® File, 960 KB; Web Version)
Steve Levy

Medical Liability and Patient Safety (Session 42)

Excellence  in Obstetrics: A Multi-Site AHRQ Demonstration Project (PowerPoint® File, 2.5 MB; Web Version)
Ann Hendrich

NQMC —- An Expanded Tool With Real-World Relevance (Session 5)

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™: An Expanded Tool with Real-world Relevance (PowerPoint® File, 1.5 MB; Web Version)
Eric Schneider, Vivian Coates, and Heather Palmer

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