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www.ahrq.gov/ecareplan/about/index.html
August 01, 2024 - About the eCare Plan for Multiple Chronic Conditions
The eCare Plan project aims to build care planning tools that will improve how we do research and provide healthcare for people with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). These tools include data standards and electronic care plan applications that allow all mem…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P4O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase4_Monitoring.doc
January 01, 2005 - Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit
Phase 4 Monitoring
It will be important to monitor the antibiogram program by (1) soliciting feedback from prescribing clinicians (physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants) and nursing home staff on ways to improve the usability of the antibiogram and (2) tracking the pres…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/warm-handoff-webinar-slides.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Warm Handoff
1
Warm Handoff
AHRQ
Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary
Care Settings by Engaging Patients and
Families
Speaker
Kelly Smith, PhD
Scientific Director, Quality & Safety
Co-PI, AHRQ Guide to Improve Patient Safety
in Primary Care Settings by Engaging
Patients and Families
kel…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/about-cahps/cahps-program/index.html
April 01, 2023 - The CAHPS Program
The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS ® ) program is a multi-year initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Its purpose is to support investigator-led research to better understand patient experience with healthcare and develop scientific…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/consumer-exp/systems/index.html
October 01, 2014 - Project Overview: Designing Consumer Reporting Systems for Patient Safety Events
Current patient safety event reporting systems are aimed at obtaining information from health care providers. However, patients and their family members are in a unique position to identify gaps in care that may have co…
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www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/competencies-affinity-group/index.html
May 01, 2025 - Healthcare Safety Competencies Affinity Group
Background The AHRQ National Action Alliance Healthcare Safety Competencies Affinity Group provided a forum for identifying and exploring the patient and workforce safety competencies needed by our healthcare workforce to support the safety of healthcare delivery. …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/26-patient-education-guide.docx
June 01, 2023 - Guide to Using the Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Patient Education BookletsAHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical Care and Recovery
Purpose of Booklets
The booklets were developed for patients and caregivers to engage and prepare them for surgery and recovery in the hospital and at home. Patients and careg…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/delivery-primary-care.html
November 01, 2022 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders
AHRQ’s Research and Tools Help Transform Delivery of Primary Care
NOV
7
2022
By
Tess
Miller,
Dr.P.H.
The unprecedented challenges of COVID-19 underscored the vital role played by the Nation’s vast network of primary care practices—a…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/16-engaging-stakeholders-pitch.docx
June 01, 2023 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical Care and Recovery
Developing an Elevator Pitch: A Tool for Building and Communicating a Vision for the Program
What Is This Tool?
Once your team has identified stakeholders for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care a…
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www.ahrq.gov/es/tools/index.html?page=0
December 01, 2015 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) The CUSP toolkit includes training tools to make care safer. More
The SHARE Approach Five-step process for clinicians and their patients More
EvidenceNOW Tools for Change Helping practices implement evidence More
Tools
The …
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/obtoolkitref.html
March 01, 2014 - Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity
References
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/public-health-emergency-refocus.html
May 01, 2023 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders
The End of the Public Health Emergency Refocuses the Urgency to Improve Healthcare Quality
MAY
19
2023
By
Robert Otto
Valdez,
Ph.D., M.H.S.A.
Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A.
On May 11, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administrat…
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www.ahrq.gov/es/tools/index.html
December 01, 2015 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) The CUSP toolkit includes training tools to make care safer. More
The SHARE Approach Five-step process for clinicians and their patients More
EvidenceNOW Tools for Change Helping practices implement evidence More
Tools
The …
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/md.html
March 01, 2019 - State at a Glance: Maryland
Learn more about the CHIPRA quality demonstration projects being implemented in Maryland.
Maryland is featured in the following reports from the National Evaluation:
Evaluation Highlight No . 4: How the CHIPRA quality demonstration elevated children on State health policy agend…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/contentcalls/twomorees-slides/Two-More-Es-and-How-to-Spread-Dec-13-2011-508.ppt
January 01, 2011 - Project Report - Lean Sigma
Two More E’s and How to Spread
Learning Objectives
To think ahead about ways to make your investment of time and improvements in BSI rates last forever
To make sure all patients in your institution have access to the same level of safety in their care
Implementation Framework
Al…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/owll-long-desc.html
August 01, 2025 - Open Wide Learning Lab (OWLL): Improving Patient Safety in Dentistry
Principal Investigator: Muhammad Walji, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX AHRQ Grant No.: HS027268 Project Period: 09/09/19-08/31/24 Description: OWLL aimed to improve patient safety in dental sett…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/types-and-effects-feedback-emergency-ambulance-staff-systematic-mixed-studies-review-and-meta
April 06, 2022 - Study
Types and effects of feedback for emergency ambulance staff: a systematic mixed studies review and meta-analysis.
Citation Text:
Wilson C, Janes G, Lawton R, et al. Types and effects of feedback for emergency ambulance staff: a systematic mixed studies review and meta-analysis. BMJ…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-computerized-provider-order-entry-and-clinical-decision-support-improve-referring
August 20, 2018 - Study
Using computerized provider order entry and clinical decision support to improve referring physicians' implementation of consultants' medical recommendations.
Citation Text:
Were MC, Abernathy G, Hui SL, et al. Using computerized provider order entry and clinical decision support…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-inpatient-electronic-prescribing-system-prescribing-error-causation-qualitative
February 16, 2022 - Study
Impact of an inpatient electronic prescribing system on prescribing error causation: a qualitative evaluation in an English hospital.
Citation Text:
Puaar SJ, Franklin BD. Impact of an inpatient electronic prescribing system on prescribing error causation: a qualitative evaluation …
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/developing-primary-care-patient-measure-safety-pc-pmos-modified-delphi-process-and-face
August 21, 2015 - Study
Developing a primary care patient measure of safety (PC PMOS): a modified Delphi process and face validity testing.
Citation Text:
Hernan AL, Giles SJ, O'Hara JK, et al. Developing a primary care patient measure of safety (PC PMOS): a modified Delphi process and face validity testi…