It’s important to prioritize high-impact prevention strategies, as outlined in the Toolkit. Follow these steps to prioritize opportunities for improvement. Multi-voting is a structured series of votes ...

AHRQ is a federal leader in efforts to advance patient and healthcare worker safety, and we are proud that the National ...

This toolkit is based on similar toolkits used in hospitals and nursing homes, but it has not been tested. One of the tools, the Quarterly Prescribing Profile, is based on a tool used in a randomized ...

September 12, 2023 AHRQ Views Blog Post: With TeamSTEPPS 3.0, AHRQ Refreshes a Landmark Patient Safety Training Curriculum ...

The Role of the Nurse Manager module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (or CUSP) Toolkit addresses the role of nursing leaders for your quality improvement initiative. This module ...

After the Institute of Medicine released its sentinel report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in conjunction with its Federal ...

Health care delivery systems throughout the United States are employing the triple aim (improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health ...

A new analysis of hospitalized Medicare patients reveals a decline in adverse events since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 13-to-15 percent reduction in adverse events in 2022 compared to ...

Review the following list of meetings in which falls risk and prevention is potentially discussed by the interdisciplinary team. For every meeting that occurs at your facility, indicate the type of ...

Patient health status or quality of life. Patient, provider, and population attitudes and behavior. New evidence, research, prevention strategies, treatments, and care models. For example, ...

Sponsored by the Public Health Service, the 2008 Update to the Clinical Practice Guideline presents evidenced-based guidelines for clinicians to use when treating their patients who use tobacco. The ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care ...