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Safer Dx Checklist: 10 High-Priority Practices for Diagnostic Excellence
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| Organizations can use this self-assessment tool with 10 recommended practices for diagnostic excellence to understand current diagnostic practices, identify areas to improve, and track progress toward diagnostic safety and excellence over time. |
Better Maternal Outcomes Quality Improvement Workbooks
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| Developed as part of the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network, the workbooks contain descriptions, examples, and templates for tools that teams can use to guide their quality improvement (QI) work focused on improving maternal health outcomes and equity. |
Conversation Guide to Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
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| The guide helps health care staff and leaders begin to quickly engage in effective conversations about COVID-19 vaccination, enabling learning in practice and resolving issues that arise from such conversations. |
100 Million Healthier Lives Health and Well-Being Measurement Approach and Assessment Tools
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| These tools and resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, help individuals, organizations, and communities measure what matters most to advance health, well-being, and equity at multiple levels and across topics. |
100 Million Healthier Lives Engaging People with Lived Experience Tools
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| This collection of resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, provides key information and tools to support communities and organizations to authentically engage people with lived experience in co-design and implementation efforts. |
100 Million Healthier Lives Advancing Equity Tools
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| These tools and resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, support communities' efforts to prioritize equity in an authentic and deep way and address racism as a determinant of health as they work toward achieving improvements in health and well-being. |
Hospital Preparedness for a COVID-19 Surge: Assessment Tool
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| The purpose of this assessment tool is for hospitals to identify current organizational capabilities and gaps to improve their preparedness and response for another surge of COVID-19 patients. |
“Psychological PPE”: Promote Health Care Workforce Mental Health and Well-Being
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| The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating existing issues with health care professional burnout and joy in work. Evidence-based recommendations for “psychological PPE” (protection and support for staff mental health and well-being) are intended for use by staff providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Conversation and Action Guide to Support Staff Well-Being and Joy in Work During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
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| During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care leaders are working to support staff who are experiencing anxiety, stress, and intense demands. This guide includes actionable ideas that leaders can quickly test during the coronavirus response, and which can build the longer-term foundation to sustain joy in work and well-being for the health care workforce. |
Quality Improvement Team Member Matrix Worksheet
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| Effective quality improvement (QI) teams are multidisciplinary and include different areas of expertise. Use this worksheet to help you form a QI team that represents a range of perspectives and expertise. |
QI Team Member Work Styles Inventory Worksheet
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| Quality improvement (QI) team members can use this worksheet to identify their preferred work styles. |
Quality Improvement Project Measures Worksheet
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| Use this worksheet to identify the process, outcome, and balancing measures for your quality improvement project. |
Quality Improvement Project Change Concepts Worksheet
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| A change concept is a general notion or approach to change that has been found to be useful in developing specific ideas for improvement. Use this worksheet to choose and explore relevant change concepts for a quality improvement project. |
Sustainability Planning Worksheet
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| Teams may use this worksheet to help plan for the long-term sustainability of an improvement effort. |
Aim Statement Worksheet
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| An effective aim statement is fundamental for every quality improvement project. Use this worksheet to help you write a clear, specific aim statement and complete the checklist to double-check your work. |
Four Steps for Developing Reliable Processes
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| Creating and sustaining reliable processes to ensure health care quality and patient safety requires thoughtful planning and execution. This checklist of four steps will help ensure your systems are designed with reliability in mind. |
How to Talk to Your Patients about End-of-Life Care: A Conversation Ready Toolkit for Clinicians
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| This toolkit is intended to help clinicians address some of the challenges of engaging with patients and families in end-of-life care conversations over time, with the goal of providing respectful end-of-life care that is concordant with patients’ stated goals, values, and preferences. |
Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit
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| Download these nine essential tools to guide your organization in improving patient safety and delivering safe, reliable care. Tools include FMEA, SBAR, root cause analysis, daily huddles, and more. |
Selected Resources: Improving Opioid and Pain Management
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| This document offers selected resources for clinicians and health care administrators to take action on opioid and pain management and opioid use disorder (OUD), organized into three categories: Patient Assessment, Intervention, and Treatment; Provider Training and Support; and Strategy and Planning.
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QI Project Management
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| This tool describes strategies to effectively manage quality improvement projects, specific ideas to try within each strategy, and offers a workspace for you to note your next steps to implement the strategy. |
QI Project Charter
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| The QI project charter provides a rationale and roadmap for the team’s improvement work that can be used to clarify thinking about what needs to be done and why. The charter helps keep the focus on a specific opportunity or problem and identifies the members of the improvement team. |
Visual Management Board
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| A visual management board is used as a key communication tool that provides at-a-glance information about current process performance, both quantitative and qualitative data, to help clinical unit staff coordinate and guide their daily work and monitor ongoing improvement projects. |
5 Whys: Finding the Root Cause
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| When a problem presents itself, ask Why again and again until you reach the root cause. |
"What Matters to You?" Conversation Guide for Improving Joy in Work
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| With burnout and staff turnover in health care continuing to rise at alarming rates, this resource is intended to help leaders guide conversations with colleagues about “What matters to you?” — Step 1 of the Four Steps for Leaders, described in detail in the IHI White Paper, IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work. |
Ask Me 3: Good Questions for Your Good Health
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| Ask Me 3® is an educational program that encourages patients and families to ask three specific questions of their providers to better understand their health conditions and what they need to do to stay healthy. |
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