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Adopting Innovations: "Will It Work Here?"
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides a guide for decision makers interested in adopting innovations in their practice. The resource helps users determine if an innovation would be a good fit—or an appropriate stretch—for their healthcare organization by asking a series of questions. It also provides links to actionable Web-based tools and presents case studies that illustrate how other organizations have addressed these questions.
Defining an Equity Agenda
The National Academy of Medicine
The National Academy of Medicine provides a report on setting an equity agenda in health care. The report specifically identifies impediments to equity in healthcare quality, impacts of racism and discrimination, as well as strategies to improve racial equity in healthcare equity.
Measuring Change for Quality Improvement
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement
This Institute for Healthcare Improvement collection of measurement tools can be used by organizations to help measure progress of any quality and process improvement initiatives implemented at their institutions.
SDOH & Practice Improvement
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) assists health systems and providers to improve health care through a better understanding of SDOH. In addition to federal data sources that can inform health systems about the communities they serve, AHRQ provides resources to assess social risks and needs, as well as resources to address them.
Plan, Do, Study, ACT (PDSA)
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
This Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) worksheet is a component of their "Model for Improvement" framework. The Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) worksheet is designed to test proposed changes at the system and operational levels. This exercise will make it easier to identify implementation barriers limiting effective process and quality improvement.
EvidenceNOW Model: Providing External Support for Primary Care
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides external support to primary care practices looking to increase their capacity for quality improvement. The EvidenceNOW model offers 5 support services: on-site practice facilitation and coaching, health information technology (IT) support. shared learning collaboratives, expert consultation, and data, feedback, & benchmarking.
Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) provides instructions, examples, and templates to facilitate quality improvement and performance improvement projects. These tools can be used with the Model for Improvement, Lean, or Six Sigma. Examples include: Cause and Effect Diagram, Driver Diagram, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Flowchart, Histogram, Pareto Chart, PDSA Worksheet, Project Planning Form, Run Chart, and the Scatter Diagram.
Human-Centered Design to Improve Patient Experience
Press Ganey Associates and Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
A case study of the Breast Oncology Department at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital’s use of human-centered design and PX (patient experience) to embed evidence-based change into workflows.
Culture Change for Increased Employee Engagement
The Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC)

A case study from the journal Oncology Issues about the efforts of the Cancer Centers of Colorado at St. Mary’s Regional Hospital to improve staff morale and build a culture of continuous improvement. Includes detailed steps for implementing a “Daily Improvement Program.”

Leveraging Technology to Reduce Hospital and Emergency Room Admission and Identify Patient Comorbidities
The Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC)

From Oncology Issues, a case study of Munson Healthcare’s “hub-and-spoke” model, designed to decrease the number of advanced stage cancer diagnoses given in rural emergency departments (EDs) serving large, geographically remote populations. The model leverages advanced practice providers and outpatient facilities to improve access to care, minimize the impact of staffing shortages, and improve cancer outcomes.

A Rural Healthcare System Expands Cancer Care with a "Hub and Spoke" Model
The Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC)

From Oncology Issues, a case study of Munson Healthcare’s “hub-and-spoke” model, designed to decrease the number of advanced stage cancer diagnoses given in rural emergency departments (EDs) serving large, geographically remote populations. The model leverages advanced practice providers and outpatient facilities to improve access to care, minimize the impact of staffing shortages, and improve cancer outcomes.

Quality Improvement for Specialized Cancer Care
The Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC)

A detailed review in Oncology Issues of ACCC’s initiative to improve ovarian cancer care delivery. Quality improvement efforts focused on genetic testing and counseling, clinical trial enrollment, and multidisciplinary team care.

Fostering Excellence in Care and Outcomes in Patients with Stage III/IV NSCLC
The Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC)
ACCC launched a national initiative to optimize care for patients with stage III and IV NSCLC. This resource describes the QI projects of 6 cancer centers: most aimed at streamlining genetic biomarker testing and monitoring of immune-related adverse events (irAEs).
Best Practice Model for Oncology Pharmacy Management
The Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC)

A profile in Oncology Issues of the best practice model for medication management developed by the Legacy Cancer Institute in Portland, Oregon. As the winner of the 2018 ACCC Innovator Award, this model was also cited as a “new best practice model” by the American College of Surgeons Commission. A key feature of the model is the creation of an oncology pharmacy navigator position.

Multidisciplinary Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Care: Models of Quality Improvement
The Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC)

Published in Oncology Issues, a report detailing an ACCC-supported quality improvement (QI) initiative for acute lymphocytic leukemia. 3 cancer programs self-identified challenges for QI efforts: topics included improving clinical competency and care coordination to determine of quality metrics.

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