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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/psychological-safety.html
April 01, 2025 - MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI
Psychological Safety
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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
The Evidence for MRSA Decolonization
Nasal Decolonization
Us…
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/cepi/dpi.html
February 01, 2025 - The Division of Practice Improvement
The Division of Practice Improvement (DPI), part of the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement , promotes innovative and evidence-based healthcare and advances the science of dissemination and implementation DPI creates materials to teach healthcare professionals and…
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/otherwebsites/effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.html
March 01, 2024 - The Effective Health Care Program
Mission
The Effective Health Care (EHC) Program funds individual researchers, research centers, and academic organizations to work with AHRQ to produce patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) for clinicians, consumers, and policymakers. PCOR is designed to inform health car…
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/otherwebsites/PBRN/pbrn.html
September 01, 2018 - Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs)
Mission
PBRNs are groups of primary care clinicians and practices working together to answer community-based health care questions and translate research findings into practice. PBRNs engage clinicians in quality improvement activities and an evidence-based culture in …
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/improve/six-building-blocks.html
March 01, 2022 - AHRQ Six Building Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care
Deaths from drug overdoses (PDF, 429 KB) have risen steadily over the past two decades. The misuse of opioids has become widespread across the United States. Primary care providers and their clinic staff manage …
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/workgroup/index.html
July 01, 2025 - Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare
Background In 2015, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a report titled Improving Diagnosis in Health Care . This report was a continuation of two previously published reports from the Ins…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/decolonization-first-steps.html
October 01, 2024 - MRSA Prevention Toolkit: ICUs & Non-ICUs
Tools & Resources for Decolonization: First Steps, Readiness, and Pre-Launch
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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
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/index.html
March 01, 2014 - Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity
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Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Background: Case for Comm…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/events/webcasts.html
October 01, 2024 - Archived CAHPS Webcasts
CAHPS webcasts inform survey users about products and related resources, offer updates on the status of products in development, and support in the use of CAHPS survey and data results. View recent and upcoming webcasts and events. Introducing the CAHPS Clinician & Group Visit Survey 4.0…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/mobility/Development-PWMI-Item-Set.html
April 01, 2020 - Development of the CAHPS Item Sets for People with Mobility Impairments
The CAHPS Consortium collaborated with a number of stakeholders, disability researchers and State agencies to develop the Item Sets for People with Mobility Impairments (PWMI). Partners in this work included the following organizations:
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/consumer-reporting/guidelines/results/index.html
March 01, 2016 - Reporting CAHPS Survey Results to Non-Consumers
Many sponsors of CAHPS surveys produce reports for audiences other than consumers. These audiences include internal decisionmakers, accrediting bodies (e.g., NCQA), policymakers (e.g., regulators or legislators), health plans, and provider organizations.
What's …
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/index.html
July 01, 2018 - How to Use the CUSP Toolkit
The CUSP Toolkit can help your team learn key principles that increase safety. Once you’ve learned the basics, add-on modules can help you target certain safety issues.
The CUSP Toolkit is modular. The core CUSP Toolkit is composed of instructional material that a unit leader (fa…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/databases/hospital/2024-hospital-workplace-safety-summary.pdf
January 01, 2024 - 2024 Workplace Safety Items for Hospitals Report Executive Summary Overview Infographic
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/nursing-home/supplemental-items/workplace-safety.html
June 01, 2025 - Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for the SOPS Nursing Home Survey
The AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for nursing homes were designed for use with the core SOPS Nursing Home Survey to help nursing homes assess the extent to which their organization's cu…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/asc/asc_2020_overview_infographic-v2.pdf
January 01, 2020 - 2020 SOPS ASC Database Report Executive Summary Infographic
Surveys on Patient
Findings from the 2020 Survey on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)
Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Database
The ASC SOPS Database assesses provider and st aff percept ions of their organization's pat ient
safety cu lture. The ASC SOPS Dat…
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/cquips/umscheid-bio.html
October 01, 2024 - Craig A. Umscheid, M.D., M.S.
Director, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS)
Craig A. Umscheid, M.D., M.S. , is a hospitalist and clinical epidemiologist who serves as Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Qua…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/index.html
December 01, 2017 - Instructional Modules
Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery
Fifteen instructional modules cover topics spread across the three phases that clinical teams will use in their program: onboarding, implementation, and sustainability. Each module is designed to be delivered as part of a 1-hour subject matter expert-led …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/unhealthy-alcohol-use.pdf
January 01, 2019 - EvidenceNOW: Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Problem
Unhealthy alcohol use is the Nation’s third leading cause of preventable
death, affecting almost a third of adults. It is associated with adverse effects
on physical and mental health. In addition, unhealthy alcohol use has
detrimental socioeconomic consequence…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/arbaje-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Older adult safety while receiving home health services after hospital discharge
Older adult safety while receiving home health services after hospital discharge
Principal Investigator: Alicia I. Arbaje, MD, MPH, PhD
Other team members:
Bruce Leff, MD (Primary mentor)
Ayse P. Gurses, PhD, MS…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/assertion.html
April 01, 2013 - Appropriate Assertion Call (Transcript)
December 14, 2010
Operator: Good day, ladies and gentleman and welcome to the CUSP Content Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session, and instructions will follow at that time. If anyone should …