Note: Resources on this page were used in testing the Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families. The materials were ...

A special issue of the Health Care Innovations Exchange on being culturally relevant, featuring three innovation profiles and two QualityTools. Clinical and Community Linkages (August 3, 2011) A ...

As the lead federal agency for advancing patient safety, AHRQ invests in research and implementation projects that bridge the gap between research and the delivery of safer patient care. AHRQ-Funded ...

Many patients do not receive important immunizations and other preventive services and advice because they do not know to see their clinical team for these services, they forget to make appointments, ...

Health care-associated infections (HAIs) result in almost 100,000 deaths each year and cost the U.S. health system $40 billion annually. Most of these deaths and costs are preventable. The U.S.

The CAHPS® Experience of Care & Health Outcomes (ECHO) Survey is the product of nearly 6 years of research and testing by CAHPS grantees at the Harvard Medical School, with extensive input from ...

Display Slide 63, “Change Management,” as the class reassembles before discussing the last implementation topic. In discussing Slide 64, “Objectives,” as you transition from coaching to change ...

To improve patients' understanding, and possibly reduce errors while improving adherence, AHRQ grantee Michael Wolf, Ph.D, and colleagues developed and tested a set of explicit, standardized ...

If you teach content from the Situation Monitoring Module in an even shorter format, focus on one or two specific situation monitoring tools that have been selected based on the participants’ needs.

AHRQ's Healthcare Simulation Dictionary, Version 3.0 (PDF, 1.8 MB), includes 170 definitions of healthcare simulation terms ranging from “avatars” and “manikins” to “gamification” and “virtual reality ...

HCUPnet allows free and immediate access to health statistics. The system provides health care statistics and information for hospital inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory settings, as well ...

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