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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/pqmp-data-process-flow.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Phase 2 “Deep Dive”: Practice participation to decrease ED rates for patients with asthma (based on using the PQMP asthma measure)
Step 1: Does the practice
have an asthma registry?
Phase 2 “Deep Dive”: Practice participation to decrease ED rates for patients with asthma
(based on using the PQMP asthma measure)
C…
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/ockt/index.html
February 01, 2025 - Office of Communications (OC)
Develops, implements, and manages programs for communicating and disseminating the results of Agency activities with the goal of changing behavior to foster improvement in the quality and safety of care.
The Director of OC is Karen Fleming-Michael . The OC promotes the communica…
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www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/commitment/index.html
September 01, 2025 - Commitment To Advance Patient and Workforce Safety
The National Action Alliance is a community of healthcare provider organizations and federal, private, and community partners, including patients and their families, who share a commitment to forging innovative pathways toward safer healthcare for patients and …
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/health-it/index.html
September 01, 2022 - Health IT and Digital Health
Digital healthcare applies to activities involving the transfer of information between patient and provider throughout the entire patient journey, as well as the intelligent use of all related health information technology (IT) and data. AHRQ's Digital Research Program focuses on us…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/building-community/index.html
December 01, 2023 - Research Communities
AHRQ offers many resources to enable and encourage a growing primary care research community. These resources range from networks of primary care clinicians and practices working together to answer community-based research questions to tools and guidance to clinicians on how to integrate be…
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www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/events/webinars/recent-webinars.html
February 01, 2017 - Recent National Quality Strategy (NQS) Webinars
Learn more about the National Quality Strategy by viewing the slides and transcript from a recent Webinar.
The National Quality Strategy and The Public Sector—Federal Agency Alignment to the Six Priorities
Better Care, Healthier People and Communities, More …
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/otherwebsites/uspstf/index.html
September 01, 2024 - U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is an independent, volunteer group of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine that makes recommendations about clinical preventive services such as screening tests, counseling services, and preventive medicat…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/technical-bundles-ltvv.html
March 01, 2017 - Low Tidal Volume Ventilation
Low Tidal Volume Ventilation Guide for Reducing Ventilator-Associated Events in Mechanically Ventilated Patients ( PDF , 1 MB)
This guide provides an overview of how low tidal volume ventilation can improve outcomes for all mechanically ventilated patients, how to implement the us…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/skills/patient-assessment-chg-showering.pdf
March 01, 2022 - Patient Self-Showering Skills Assessment: Showering With Chlorhexidine
Patient Name_______________________ Unit_________ Date________________
AHRQ Pub. No. 20(22)-0036
March 2022
Decolonization of
Non-ICU Patients With Devices
Section 12-1 – Patient Self-Showering Skills Assessment:
Showering With C…
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/best-practices-012424.html
February 01, 2024 - Best Practices for Administering SOPS® Surveys (Webcast)
January 24, 2024
Summary Speakers and Presentation Slides Recording About the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture Summary This webcast detailed best practices for using the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®). Speakers discussed the SOPS Surveys an…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/mui/ui-exam-room-poster.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Urinary Incontinence Exam Room Poster
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Urinary Incontinence
Exam Room Poster
EMPOWER Team – University
Hospitals of Cleveland
This project was funded under grant numb…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/practice-facilitators-effectiveness-infographic.pdf
September 01, 2022 - Infographic - Strategies Used by Effective Practice Facilitators
Strategies Used by Effective Practice Facilitators
An EvidenceNOW study of 162 practice facilitators and 1,630 small- to medium-sized practices found
that practices working with more effective facilitators had a 3.6% higher improvement in mean deliver…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/videos/index.html
September 01, 2021 - Videos Tell the Story of EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health
These four videos tell the story of how seven regional Cooperatives worked with more than 5,000 clinicians at over 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices to improve the delivery of heart health services to about 8 million patients. This …
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/best-practices/index.html
September 01, 2022 - Learn Best Practices for Diagnosing and Managing Common Infectious Syndromes and Antibiotic Allergies
For information on how the materials below can be integrated into your practice's efforts to improve antibiotic use, read the Implementation Guide for Ambulatory Care Antibiotic Stewardship (PDF, 708 KB). …
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruhealing/slides.html
December 01, 2017 - On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing: Facilitator Training
Introduction to Pressure Ulcer Healing Reports Slide Presentation: AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes
Text version of slide presentation.
Slide 1: Introduction to Pressure Ulcer Healing Reports
AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes:
On-Time Pr…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/wears2-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Center for Safety In Emergency Care
Center for Safety In Emergency Care
Final Progress Report
Principal Investigator
Robert L Wears, MD, MS
Team Members
Christopher Beach, MD
Ravi Behara, PhD
Patrick Croskerry, MD, PhD
Shawna J Perry, MD
Marc Shapir…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/hcbs-2021-webcast-quality-measures.pdf
January 01, 2021 - Introducing a New Database for Users of the CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS CAHPS) Survey - BROWN
Looking Forward: HCBS
Quality Measures Alignment
and HCBS CAHPS® Survey
Melanie Brown, PhD, Technical Director
Division of Community Systems Transformation, Disabled and Elderly Health
Programs Group, Ce…
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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/beprepared-quick-start-final508.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Implementation Quick Start Guide: Be Prepared To Be Engaged
The Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care
Settings by Engaging Patients and Families
Implementation Quick Start Guide
Be Prepared To Be Engaged
1 Review intervention and training materials
� Understand the purpose, use, and benefits
of the B…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/beprepared-scripts-final508.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Be Prepared to Be Engaged: Scripts
The Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care
Settings by Engaging Patients and Families
Be Prepared To
Be Engaged
Scripts
Provide the Be Prepared Note Sheet to a patient
Please use this note sheet to write down what you want to talk about with [clinician] today. You
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