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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/index.html
June 01, 2025 - Practice Improvement
AHRQ develops, tests and shares resources and strategies to assist health systems and clinicians deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare. These evidence-based tools, toolkits, and training resources can help clinicians address challenging changes in medical practice and deliver th…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/sops-action-planning-tool-template.pdf
June 02, 2025 - SOPS Action Planning Tool Template
Action Planning Tool for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture© (SOPS©) 1
Facility name: Date last updated:
Action Plan for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture
1. Identifying Areas to Improve
1a. What areas do you want to focus on for improvement?
1b. What are yo…
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/tools/teachback.html
May 01, 2023 - Tool: Teach-Back
A teach‐back is an evidence‐based health literacy intervention that promotes patient engagement, patient safety, adherence, and quality . 1 In a teach-back, you ask the patient or family caregiver to explain the information they need to know or actions they need to take, in their own words. Te…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/make-safety-priority-create-and-maintain-culture-safety
February 25, 2013 - Newspaper/Magazine Article
Make safety a priority: create and maintain a culture of safety.
Citation Text:
Make safety a priority: create and maintain a culture of safety. Leonard M; Frankel A.
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/improve/index.html
September 01, 2021 - Develop and Improve Your Stewardship Program
Presentations and tools to help a nursing facility develop an antibiotic stewardship program from scratch or improve the effectiveness of an existing program.
For information on how the materials below can be integrated into institutional efforts to improve antib…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips0902.html
October 01, 2014 - West Virginia University Uses AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Survey to Improve Safety
Search All Impact Case Studies
March 2009
As a result of implementing AHRQ's Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, West Virginia University Hospitals changed clinical practices and policies in an effort to improve the …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/cauti-tools/cauti-icu/preventing-cauti-icu-setting-module-4-slides.pptx
September 01, 2015 - PowerPoint Presentation
Preventing CAUTI in the ICU Setting
AHRQ Safety Program for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals
Module 4: Summary and Next Steps
AHRQ Pub No. 15-0073-4-EF
September 2015
AHRQ Safety Program for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals
1
Summary of Module 1
CAUTI is a common and harmful healthcare- associated i…
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/wen-kuang-yi
January 01, 2023 - Wen, Kuang-Yi
MyHealthPortal: Using an Electronic Portal to Empower Patients with Breast Cancer - Final Report
Citation
Wen KY. MyHealthPortal: Using an Electronic Portal to Empower Patients with Breast Cancer - Final Report. (Prepared by the Fox Care Cancer Center under Grant…
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/resnick-helaine
January 01, 2023 - Resnick, Helaine
Communication-Focused Technologies: Technologies for Enhancing Access to Health Management - Final Report
Citation
Resnick HE, Alwan M. Communication-Focused Technologies: Technologies for Enhancing Access to Health Management - Final Report. (Prepared by Lead…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening
January 23, 2024 - Share to Facebook
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Evidence Summary
Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening
January 23, 2024
Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. Th…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/pharmlit.pdf
October 01, 2007 - Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? A Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool User's Guide
Is Our Pharmacy Meeting
Patients’ Needs? A Pharmacy
Health Literacy Assessment Tool
User’s Guide
This user’s guide was produced under contract to the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) under Contract No.…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cg/cgkit/HowtoReportResultsofCGCAHPS080610FINAL.pdf
August 01, 2010 - How to Report Results of the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey
How to Report
Results of the CAHPS
Clinician & Group Survey
How to Report Results of the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey
Preface
The guidance offered in this document brings together and builds on the work of several
organizations. The Ameri…
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs020316-garfield-final-report-2014.pdf
January 01, 2014 - connection that provides encrypted communication to prevent eavesdropping and to securely identify
communications
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/848108/psn-pdf
April 26, 2023 - The Dose Makes the Poison: Medication Error During
Procedural Sedation in the Pediatric Emergency
Department.
April 26, 2023
Amashta ML, Barnes DK. The Dose Makes the Poison: Medication Error During Procedural Sedation in the
Pediatric Emergency Department. PSNet [internet]. 2023.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/do…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2015_hp-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2015 - 2015 CAHPS Health Plan Survey Database Chartbook
THE CAHPS DATABASE
2015 CAHPS Health Plan
Survey Database
2015 Chartbook: What Consumers Say About Their
Experiences With Their Health Plans and Medical Care
AHRQ Contract No.: HHSA290201300003C
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/dy-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: What Is Patient Safety in the Medical Home?
R01HS024859 What is Patient Safety in the Medical Home? Final Report
AHRQ Grant Final Progress Report
Title of Project:
What is Patient Safety in the Medical Home?
Principal Investigator
Sydney Dy, MD, MS
Team Members
Sydney Dy, MD, MSc; JHU
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/eder-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - progress:
1) You Can’t Improve Testing When the Office is in Chaos.
2) Issues within Patient/Office Communications
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Becker_3.pdf
January 09, 2008 - turned out to be important, as one caregiver had assumed the technology would permit him to
relax his communications
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruprev/handouts3.html
December 01, 2017 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Pressure Ulcer Prevention Handouts (continued)
Implementation of the Prevention Reports Into Day-to-Day Practice
Review of the Change Team's Process of Choosing On-Time Reports, Incorporating Them Into Huddles and Meetings, and Pilot…
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/survey/pcip-post-ehr-implementation.pdf
June 16, 2021 - PCIP Post-EHR Implementation Survey of Providers
Primary Care Information Project (PCIP)
Post-Electronic Health Record Implementation: Survey of Providers
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York NY
This is a questionnaire designed to be completed by physicians in an ambulatory setting.
The…