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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/patient-safety/reports/national-academy-medicine.html
February 01, 2018 - National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Reports
AHRQ has long collaborated with the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) to develop comprehensive reports on topics that are critical to making the American health care system safer and higher quality. These reports represent the consensus reco…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Prologue_Henriksen_Vol1.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Prologue: Laying the Foundation
Prologue
Laying the Foundation
Kerm Henriksen, PhD
The volume starts with papers that look to the future and examine the past with respect to patient
safety; however, its overarching theme is assessment. An underlying premise to any volume that
focuses on assessment is tha…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201420.html
November 01, 2014 - AHRQ's RED Toolkit Leads to Lower Readmissions, Better Care Transitions in Two Texas Hospitals
Search All Impact Case Studies
November 2014
Two Texas hospitals have used AHRQ's Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) toolkit to help significantly reduce hospital readmissions and as a catalyst for additional progres…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/hand-hygiene.html
October 01, 2024 - MRSA Prevention Toolkit: ICUs & Non-ICUs
Hand Hygiene Promotion
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Table of Contents
MRSA Prevention Toolkit: ICUs & Non-ICUs
The Four Key Strategies of MRSA Prevention
The Importance of MRSA Prevention
Decolonization
Tools & Resources for Decolonization
Tools & Resour…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/sustaining-antibiotic-guide.docx
September 01, 2022 - Consider such a review on a monthly or at least quarterly basis, to measure antibiotic prescribing over
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/npsd-medication-chartbook-2024.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The NPSD data are not
statistically comparable to clinical quality measures. … For example, the data from clinical quality
measures reported by agencies such as the Centers for Medicare … the process of patient care that resulted in the
Incident may shed light on potential preventative measures … Factors by Patient Age
Incident Preventability by Patient Age
Frequently, certain intervention measures … suggests possible room for process improvements and general education
on the use of preventative measures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/McNeill.pdf
January 01, 2004 - , but if this
effort is not converted into a decision to implement and sustain safety
improvement measures … Report produced by AHRQ7 demonstrates that it is
far more common to see no annual change in national measures … For the patient safety measures with trend data, spanning the period 1998 to 2002,
10 measures were … Hence, moving the
national needle on patient safety measures is a big challenge.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/newman-toker2-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - facilitate patient interaction with their medical records,21,22 to complete testing
or self-assessment scales … offered an electronic interview, lasting approximately 10 minutes, to identify their chief
symptom(s), measure … Measures/Analysis
Symptom data included chief and secondary complaints plus symptom attributes for … From the continuous measure of willingness to participate in minutes, we calculated mean, standard deviation … This measure was
stored as a continuous variable (time per click).
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/pliego-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - critical events on non-expectant, non-ICU inpatient mortality rates and
critical team process and outcome measures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/kowozer-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Scope
The volume-outcome relationship has been proposed as a quality measure and was being
considered … Mortality Measures
Following Lung Cancer Resection. Ann Thorac Surg. 2014; In Press.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/design-environments-long-desc.html
April 01, 2021 - with health-care professionals to improve burnout, self-compassion, and patient quality and safety measures … Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating standard algorithms to measure patient safety .
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www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/training/module-7/index.html
December 01, 2022 - Using Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral Performance Measures in a Quality Improvement System .
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www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/ahcp-template-eng.html
March 01, 2025 - Overview
Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital
How CMS Measures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/ahrq-network-factsheet.pdf
February 01, 2022 - Help nursing home staff implement best-practice safety
measures
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/ahcp-template-eng.html
March 01, 2025 - Overview
Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital
How CMS Measures
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/why-cusp.html
April 01, 2025 - Successful CUSP initiatives are informed by evidence, guided by valid measures, led by staff, and supported
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201804.html
July 01, 2018 - “We benefitted greatly from the project in helping us improve measures for fall prevention,” Krason said
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201504.html
March 01, 2015 - Survey results from 2009 and 2010 revealed improvements in the measures corresponding to "Teamwork Within
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20110511/1-lise-rybowski-intro.pdf
May 11, 2011 - Cycleof the Reporting Cycle
►► Planning the projectPlanning the project
►► Selecting measuresSelecting measures