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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/workflow-mapping.html
February 01, 2025 - How to Map Workflows in Health Care Settings
Resource: Mapping and Redesigning Workflow (PDF, 8.8 MB, 69 (Including 54 pages of slides in appendices) pages) Part of an AHRQ curriculum used to train practice facilitators, this resource explains the purpose and process of workflow mapping in a primary care se…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/how-to-guide/guide6.html
August 01, 2024 - Developing and Sustaining State-Based Infrastructure To Support Primary Care Quality Improvement
Conclusion
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Table of Contents
Developing and Sustaining State-Based Infrastructure To Support Primary Care Quality Improvement
Using This Guide
1. Background and Introduction
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/impl-guide/implementation-guide-appendix-i.docx
June 02, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals
Appendix I. Catheter Care Pocket Card
Interventions To Prevent CAUTI in Patients Who Have a Documented Medical Need for Indwelling Urinary Catheter
Prevention strategies must focus on clear indications for the insertion of a urinary catheter and prompt removal w…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/reduce.html
March 01, 2017 - Reduce Unnecessary Urine Culturing and Overuse of Antibiotics
Know When To Order Urine Cultures
Educational module and tools that summarize why more urine cultures lead to more catheter-associated urinary tract infection diagnoses, and provide tools to use to appropriately identify when to order a urine cul…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37984/psn-pdf
August 13, 2008 - Planning and implementing a systems-based patient
safety curriculum in medical education.
August 13, 2008
Thompson DA, Cowan J, Holzmueller CG, et al. Planning and implementing a systems-based patient
safety curriculum in medical education. Am J Med Qual. 2008;23(4):271-8.
doi:10.1177/1062860608317763.
https://ps…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46505/psn-pdf
August 20, 2018 - Americans' Experiences With Medical Errors and Views
on Patient Safety.
August 20, 2018
Chicago, IL: NORC at the University of Chicago and IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute; 2017.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/americans-experiences-medical-errors-and-views-patient-safety
Patient perspectives have been shown to identi…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/quality-improvement-research.html
September 01, 2023 - Back to MUI Resources
Declining Participation in Primary Care Quality Improvement Research: A Qualitative Study
Resource
Full Article on PubMed
Summary
There are numerous supportive quality improvement (QI) projects to facilitate the implementation of evidence-based practices…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/rural-family-obesity-trial.html
September 01, 2020 - Back to MUI Resources
Rural Family Medicine Clinicians' Motivations to Participate in a Pragmatic Obesity Trial
Resource
Full Article
Summary
The purpose of this article is to understand the motivations of rural-practicing primary care clinicians who participate in an intensi…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/action-plan-template.docx
June 02, 2025 - Action Plan Worksheet
ACTION PLAN WORKSHEET
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Discuss with your team some improvements you’d like to make specific to the High Leverage Changes listed in the table. Use the data from the Quality Improvement Change Assessment (QICA), current patient panel data, discussions with your coach and team, or ob…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60614/psn-pdf
June 24, 2020 - A systems approach to analyzing and preventing hospital
adverse events.
June 24, 2020
Leveson N, Samost A, Dekker SWA, et al. A systems approach to analyzing and preventing hospital
adverse events. J Patient Saf. 2020;16(2):162-167. doi:10.1097/pts.0000000000000263.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/systems-approach-an…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability.html
June 01, 2017 - Sustainability
Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
It is important to build in plans for sustainment when starting an implementation project. The resources below can help your ambulatory surgery center integrate sustainment activities into the project.
Training and Tools for Sustaining I…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/materials.html
December 01, 2017 - Toolkit Materials
Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery
The products consist of two guides, supplemental tools for each guide, and 15 instructional modules to support change at the unit level.
Guides
Applying CUSP To Promote Safe Surgery ( PDF , 508 KB)
This guide provides an overview of the Comprehensive U…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/contact-precautions.html
April 01, 2025 - MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI
Contact Precautions
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Table of Contents
MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI
The Four Key Strategies of MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
MRSA and SSI Prevention Phases
Importance of MRSA and SSI Prevention
MRSA Surveillance
The E…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/us-clinical-preventive-services.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Use of Clinical Preventive Services in the United States - Infographic
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www.ahrq.gov/sdoh/data-analytics/sdoh-tech-poverty.html
June 01, 2021 - Poverty and Access to Internet, by County
Social Determinants of Health
Access to the internet via computers and smartphones contributes to well-being in multiple ways. For health, internet access is essential for obtaining home-based telemedicine and is increasingly important for basic healthcare access, in…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/hro-rapid-research.pdf
May 01, 2025 - Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Review: Examining the Impact of Implementing High-Reliability Organization Principles on Patient Safety Outcomes
Making Healthcare Safer IV
Examining the Impact of Implementing
High-Reliability Organization Principles on
Patient Safety Outcomes
Rapid Review
Structured Abs…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ambulatory-safety_disposition-comments.pdf
October 19, 2016 - Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 27 Patient Safety
Source: https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/search-for-guides-reviews-and-reports/
?pageaction=displayproduct&productid=2322
Published Online: October 19, 2016
Technical Brief Disposition of Comments Report
Research Review Title: Pati…
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/modeling-pcmh-principles-attributes-patient-experiences-narrative-report.pdf
November 01, 2014 - Also, the patient’s family is helped through the referral process.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/tech-brief-37-opiod-use-adults-comments.pdf
November 03, 2020 - Nothing the PT did
helped. The physiatrist also renewed my
prescription for codeine. … None of them helped me to
control my pain. … To deny morphine as a pain medication that
helped, after having tried every known pain
medication at
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/outcomes-testing-evaluation_research.pdf
January 01, 2009 - 13-MDM347013 30..38
Medical Tests—White Paper Series
Additional Patient Outcomes and Pathways in
Evaluations of Testing
The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the authors, who are responsible for its
contents; the findings and conclusions do not necessarily represent the views…