- 行业: Government; Health care
- Number of terms: 396
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HRSA is the primary U.S. Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable.
Breakthrough Collaborative term. An aim for spread is an explicit statement summarizing what the organization seeks to achieve in its spread effort. It is the responsibility of executive leaders to ensure that the spread aim is aligned with the strategic goals of the organization.
Industry:Health care
Breakthrough Collaborative term. An intensive two day meeting designed to focus on a set of key components to support effective spread, build learning relationships with other day-to-day spread agents, and support participants in making plans for their organization's spread work.
Industry:Health care
Breakthrough Collaborative term. Improvements which have a direct relationship to outcomes/results and are a combination of change package concepts. Example: Six actions to create a high performance, organ donation system:
* Advocate Organ Donation As The Mission
* Involve Senior Leadership To Get Results
* Deploy A Self-Organizing OPO/Hospital Team
* Practice Early Referral, Rapid Response
* Master Effective Requesting
* Implement Donation After Cardiac Death.
Industry:Health care
Breakthrough Collaborative term. In the improvement process, the opinion leader within the organization who is willing to try new ideas (introduced by innovators) and whose positive results attract others in the organization to adopt the successful changes. (Rogers E. Diffusion of Innovations. 4th ed. New York, N.Y.: The Free Press; 1995).
Industry:Health care
Breakthrough Collaborative term. The Improvement Leader organizes and drives the spread project in their donation service area.
Industry:Health care
Breakthrough Collaborative term. The period of time between Collaborative Learning Sessions when spread teams work within their organization to meet their spread goals. Participants focus on the spread of ideas and processes within their own organization during this period while staying in continuous contact with other participants and faculty.
Industry:Health care
Breakthrough Collaborative term. The process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among members of a social system, as defined by Everett Rogers (1995).
Industry:Health care
Breakthrough Collaborative term. The time prior to the first Learning Session when teams prepare for their work in the Spread Initiative, including designating both a senior leader and a day-to-day spread agent, establishing a team, developing preliminary aims and measures and summarizing work in progress in a storyboard.
Industry:Health care
Build-up of fluid in the abdomen, usually associated with liver disease.
Industry:Health care
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a type of lung disease in which the lungs are damaged and results in difficulty breathing. The air passageways in people with COPD have become partly obstructed, impairing airflow in and out of the lungs. The air passageways also become clogged with mucus. A large percentage of COPD cases are caused by cigarette smoking; but there are other causes or contributory factors such as chemicals and other lung irritants.
Industry:Health care
