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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/050-sample-script-patient-ed-chg-cloths.docx
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Teaching Patients How To Clean With CHG Cloths:
Key Points & Sample Script
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Properly teaching patients the importance of decolonization and how to perform it at home is cruci…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/051-sample-script-patient-ed-chg-shower.docx
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Teaching Patients How To Shower With CHG:
Key Points & Sample Script
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Properly teaching patients the importance of and how to practice decolonization at home is crucial to pr…
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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
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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/news/newsroom/case-studies/201522.html
August 01, 2015 - AHRQ's RED Toolkit Helps Lower Readmissions in Dignity Health Hospitals
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August 2015
Three California hospitals are among those in the San Francisco-based Dignity Health system using AHRQ's Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit to reduce hospital readmissions and improve car…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-tips/index.html
February 01, 2021 - Fall TIPS: A Patient-Centered Fall Prevention Toolkit
This toolkit, developed through an AHRQ Patient Safety Learning Lab , consists of a formal risk assessment and tailored plan of care for each patient. The toolkit has reduced falls by 25 percent in acute care hospitals and is used in more than 100 hospitals…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cdom0803.html
October 01, 2014 - University of Iowa Uses AHRQ Data to Study Ways to Lower Incidence, Costs of Sports-Related Injuries
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April 2008
Researchers at the University of Iowa College of Public Health used AHRQ's Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), a database from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Pro…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/054-sample-adherence-report.docx
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Preoperative Decolonization
Sample Adherence Report
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Use this document to build a useful report that allows for tracking of adherence and for drilling down, as need…
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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/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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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-impact/intro.html
February 01, 2017 - AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants: A Synthesis Report
Introduction
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Table of Contents
AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants: A Synthesis Report
Introduction
Methods
Model State Enhanc…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-research-meeting-agenda-2025.pdf
January 01, 2025 - 2025 Research Meeting Agenda - Strengthening Partnerships with Patients and Families to Assess and Improve the Experience of Care (September 18, 2025)
AGENDA
1 07/31/2025
STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS WITH PATIENTS AND FAMILIES TO ASSESS
AND IMPROVE THE EXPERIENCE OF CARE
A Virtual Research Meeting
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/module-5-slides.pdf
December 31, 2022 - A clinical decision support tool
whose purpose is to prompt
physicians to order appropriate
treatments
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www.ahrq.gov/coronavirus/long-covid/care-network.html
March 01, 2025 - skills of the primary care physicians, train them to use the EMR-embedded clinical decision support tool
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-2-pf-as-a-resource.pdf
September 01, 2015 - Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 2: Practice Facilitation as a Resource for Practice Improvement
Primary Care
Practice Facilitation
Curriculum
Module 2: Practice Facilitation as a Resource
for Practice Improvement
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Advancing Excellence in Healt…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/ambulatory-safety.pdf
July 01, 2010 - IT
Estimated Total Funding: $1,200,000
Modifies and implements an IT-based
Crew Resource Management tool … geriatric
patients on Persistent Medications; and
evaluates office staff use and application
of the tool … for improving geriatric
medication safety by examining
utilization of the IT tool and changes in
safety
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/schnipper2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Development and implementation of a medication
reconciliation risk stratification tool integrated within … and implementation of an electronic health record
based medication reconciliation risk stratification tool … Statistical process control as a tool for research and
healthcare improvement.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final-companion/clabsicomp4c.html
January 01, 2013 - Avoided, Excess Costs Averted, and Changes in Mortality Rate
Moderating Factors
HSOPS
Team Checkup Tool
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part1.html
December 01, 2018 - A Data Query tool provides access to all data tables.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications2/files/guide-to-real-world-evaluations.pdf
October 01, 2014 - A Guide to Real-World Evaluations of Primary Care Interventions: Some Practical Advice
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Advancing Excellence in Health Care www.ahrq.gov
The PCM Portfolio graphic element is intended to be closely aligned with AHRQ's overall brand, while also
Chronic Care Model.…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/berry-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - One tool recently developed and optimized by HIV
researchers was able to demonstrate a 35% reduction … Goal setting for learning from the
shadowing was guided by an existing shadowing tool developed by Dr