The EvidenceNOW Model for supporting primary care practice improvement originated from a multiyear AHRQ grant initiative designed to advance the adoption of clinical and organizational evidence in ...

AHRQ's tools and research to ensure safe and seamless transitions of patients from one care setting to another, reducing preventable adverse events, drug-related errors, and other problems.

This section provides an overview of the key concepts in the Introduction. More extensive explanations and illustrations are provided in section 2; methods for teaching the introduction's concepts are ...

Monika Haugstetter, M.H.A., M.S.N., R.N. It has been 17 years since AHRQ launched TeamSTEPPS, a patient safety training program that supports AHRQ’s mission and its central role in the Nation’s ...

The CAHPS Child Hospital Survey (Child HCAHPS) Database is a central repository of survey data from hospitals that have administered the Child HCAHPS survey and chose to submit their data to the ...

Note: Resources on this page were used in testing the Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families. The materials were ...

AHRQ QIs are evidence-based measures of health care quality that use readily available hospital inpatient administrative data to measure and track health care quality and patient safety within the ...

Resource: Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices (PDF, 5.5 MB, 111 page) This guide, based upon research on successful strategies used in practices with documented ...

Before initiating antibiotics it is important to pause and review all relevant clinical and laboratory data and then weigh the potential benefit versus harm of initiating antibiotic therapy. Moment 2: ...

The list of valid and reliable indicators of inpatient quality of care continues to grow and evolve as measures are refined, introduced, and retired. The National Quality Forum has endorsed nearly 200 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines health equity as “the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health.” 39 Back in 2001, ...

The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) was an online, publicly accessible registry and repository of healthcare-related metadata, specifications, and standards. USHIK contained ...