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WEBAbout our work at AHRQ. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
Clinical Guidelines and Recommendations | Agency for Healthcare ...
WEBBetween 1992 and 1996, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) sponsored development of a series of 19 clinical practice guidelines. These guideline products are no longer viewed as guidance for current medical practice, and are provided for archival purposes only. Visit the Clinical ...
Types of Health Care Quality Measures
WEBStructural measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity, systems, and processes to provide high-quality care. For example: Whether the health care organization uses electronic medical records or medication order entry systems. The number or proportion of board-certified physicians. The ratio of providers to patients.
AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
WEBAHRQ’s HAI program funds work to help frontline clinicians and other health care staff prevent HAIs by improving how care is actually delivered to patients. This work is accomplished through a robust portfolio of grants and contracts that focus on applied research—or research that advances the ability of clinicians in the field to combat HAIs.
Fall TIPS: A Patient-Centered Fall Prevention Toolkit
WEBFall TIPS is a nurse-led, evidence-based fall prevention intervention that uses bedside tools to communicate patient-specific risk factors for falls and uses a tailored prevention plan. The toolkit provides care team members with the information they need to routinely engage in the fall-prevention process.
Patient Safety and Quality Measures - Agency for Healthcare …
WEBAHRQ QI v2023 software will be released on August 14, 2023. Both SAS QI and WinQI v2023 software will be available for download from the AHRQ QI site.A new beta version of the software, v2023 CloudQI PSI Beta, will also be available.
Preventing Falls in Hospitals - Agency for Healthcare Research and ...
WEBEach year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital. A fall may result in fractures, lacerations, or internal bleeding, leading to increased health care utilization. Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented. Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and …
Quality Improvement (QI) Toolkit with Templates, Instructions, and ...
WEBThis toolkit consists of 10 tools and templates—with instructions and examples—for primary care practices to use to improve quality. Tools include: cause and effect diagram, failure modes and effects analysis, histogram, Pareto chart, and scatter diagram.
WEBKey elements of IDEAL Discharge Planning. Include the patient and family as full partners in the discharge planning process. Educate the patient and family in plain language about the patient’s condition, the discharge process, and next steps throughout the hospital stay. Assess how well doctors and nurses explain the diagnosis, condition ...
3. Which fall prevention practices do you want to use?
WEBEach year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital. A fall may result in fractures, lacerations, or internal bleeding, leading to increased health care utilization. Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented. Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and …