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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/James.pdf
January 01, 2004 - Prologue—Volume 1—Five Years Later—Are We Any Safer?
1
Prologue
Five Years Later—Are We Any Safer?
Brent C. James
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released To Err Is Human: Building a Safer
Health System,1 its seminal summary of preventable patient injuries suffered
within American hospitals, on November 29,…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/impact-id-success-story.pdf
April 01, 2015 - North Carolina IMPaCT: Catalyzing Primary Care Transformation in Idaho
North Carolina IMPaCT: Catalyzing Primary Care
Transformation in Idaho
A key goal of AHRQ’s IMPaCT grants is to learn
strategies for spreading successful primary care
transformation programs from State to State. Each IMPaCT
grantee State w…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/mcc-summit/mcc-summit-dorr-samal.pdf
May 19, 2020 - Health IT for Multiple Chronic Conditions
Health IT for Multiple
Chronic Conditions
Lipika Samal, MD, MPH
David Dorr, MD, MS
Purpose
People with Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) are especially prone to
harm from lack of coordination and communication.
Health Information Technology (HIT) solutions can bring t…
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www.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/coordination/webinar01/fuzzysetsq-a.html
July 01, 2013 - Fuzzy Set Analysis
Presenters' Responses to Questions
The following are written responses by Dr. Marcus Thygeson, Dr. Jodi Holtrop, and Dr. Michael Harrison to questions that were sent in during the webinar but could not be answered within the one-hour time frame. These responses were edited by the Moderator,…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/4-ASC_Webcast_2021-Famolaro.pdf
January 01, 2021 - How to Use the AHRQ SOPS Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey to Improve Patient Safety - Famolaro
SOPS ASC Database and Resources
20
Theresa Famolaro, MPS, MS, MBA
Senior Study Director
User Network for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)
Westat
SOPS Databases
21
Hospital Nursing
Home
Medical
Of…
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www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/guide2.html
February 01, 2016 - Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism
Chapter 2. Analyze Care Delivery
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism
Preface
Executive Summary
Chapter 1. The Framework for Improvement
Chapter 2. Analyze Care Delivery
Chapter…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/953.html
April 01, 2025 - Two New Issue Briefs Examine Diagnosis Improvement and Healthcare Excellence
Issue Number
953
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
April 15, 2025
AHRQ Stats: Trends in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia by Hospital Type Overall, the rate of ventilator…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/partnering-patients-family.pdf
April 01, 2022 - Making It Work Tip Sheet: Partnering With Patients and Families To Prevent CLABSI and CAUTI
AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units:
Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI
Making It Work Tip Sheet
Partnering With Patients and Families To Prevent CLABSI and
CAUTI
This “Making It Work” tip sheet provide…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/prevent/leg-bags-faqs.html
July 01, 2017 - Frequently Asked Questions About the Use of and Care for Leg Bags in the Long-Term Care Setting
AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI
Disclaimer: Answers to the following frequently asked questions (FAQs) are based on consensus of experts from a national project team of clinical facu…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/communication-slides.pptx
June 01, 2021 - PowerPoint Presentation
Improving Teamwork and Communication
Long-Term Care
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use
AHRQ Pub. No. 17(21)-0029
June 2021
Improving Teamwork
1
Objectives
Recognize the importance of seeking input from all team members when making antibiotic prescribing decisions
Summarize ho…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/emerging/index.html
June 01, 2020 - Emerging Measures
Child Health Care Quality Toolbox
The Child Health Toolbox contains concepts, tips, and tools for evaluating the quality of health care for children.
The increasing demand for and use of quality measurement information generates interest in developing new measures in areas for which none e…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/silber-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Medical Failure-to-Rescue Final Report
Medical Failure-to-Rescue
Final Report
November 13, 2018
Principal Investigator: Jeffrey H. Silber, MD, PhD1,2,3,4,5
Co-investigators: Paul R. Rosenbaum, Ph.D5,6
Patrick S. Romano, MD, MPH7
Project Manager: Bijan A. Niknam, BS1
Orit Even-Shoshan, MS1,5
Senior Statis…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/public-reporting/guide2.html
June 01, 2017 - Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 2: Maximizing Consumer Understanding of Public Comparative Quality Reports: Effective Use of Explanatory Information
The purpose of the Best Practices in Public Reporting series is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performanc…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Galt.pdf
January 01, 2004 - Physician Use of Hand-held Computers for Drug Information and Prescribing
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Physician Use of Hand-held Computers
for Drug Information and Prescribing
Kimberly A. Galt, Mark V. Siracuse, Ann M. Rule,
Bartholomew E. Clark, Wendy Taylor
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop and pilot-test an ins…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Blike.pdf
January 01, 2003 - Standardized Simulated Events for Provocative Testing of Medical Care System Rescue Capabilities
193
Standardized Simulated Events for
Provocative Testing of Medical Care
System Rescue Capabilities
George Blike, Joseph Cravero, Steve Andeweg,
Jens Jensen, Klaus Christoffersen
Abstract
Background: Human er…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/public-reporting/report-2-public-reporting.pdf
June 01, 2010 - Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 2: Maximizing Consumer Understanding of Public Comparative Quality Reports: Effective Use of Explanatory Information
Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 2: Maximizing
Consumer Understanding of Public Compar…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/stone-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Exploratory Study Using Queuing Theory To Improve Nurse Staffing Effectiveness
Title: Exploratory Study Using Queuing Theory to Improve Nurse Staffing Effectiveness
Principal Investigator
Patricia W. Stone
Team Members:
Linda Green
Haomiao Jia
Pam de Cordova
Sookyung Hyun
Stephanie Goldbe…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/perinatal-care-2/hemorrhage_5-mutual-support-speaker-notes.pdf
July 01, 2023 - Mutual Support: Obstetric Hemorrhage
SPPC‐II
Toolkit
Hospital AIM
Team
Leads
SPPC II
Mutual Support
Obstetric Hemorrhage
Module 5 of 8
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SCRIPT
Welcome to Module 5 of the SPPC‐II Teamwork Toolkit. In this module, we will discuss the
diffe…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/improving-fac-notes.html
May 01, 2017 - Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical Environment Module: Facilitator Notes
Slide 1: Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical Environment Module
Say:
The Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical Environment module helps an organization improve teamwork and communicat…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/healthitwebinar/sops-hit-webcast-transcript.pdf
July 25, 2018 - SOPS™ Health Information Technology (Health IT) Supplemental Items for Hospitals Webcast Transcript
July 2018 https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/index.html 1
New AHRQ SOPS Health IT Patient Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals
July 25, 2018 – Webcast Transcript
Speakers:
Joann Sorr…