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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
Preventing Falls in Hospitals - Agency for Healthcare Research and ...
Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital. A fall may result in fractures, lacerations, or internal bleeding, leading to increased health care utilization. Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented. Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and optimizing the hospital's physical ...
Six Domains of Healthcare Quality - Agency for Healthcare …
A handful of analytic frameworks for quality assessment have guided measure development initiatives in the public and private sectors. One of the most influential is the framework put forth by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which includes the following six …
Types of Health Care Quality Measures
Measures used to assess and compare the quality of health care organizations are classified as either a structure, process, or outcome measure. Known as the Donabedian model, this classification system was named after the physician and researcher who formulated it. Structural Measures Structural measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity, systems, and processes to ...
Section 4: Ways to Approach the Quality Improvement Process
Download Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process (PDF, 457 KB). Health care delivery systems that are working to improve patient experience can face daunting challenges, reflecting the need to align changes in behavior and practices across multiple levels and areas of the organization.
Defining the PCMH | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The medical home model holds promise as a way to improve health care in America by transforming how primary care is organized and delivered. Building on the work of a large and growing community, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) defines a medical home not simply as a place but as a model of the organization of primary care that delivers the core functions of primary health ...
Clinical Guidelines and Recommendations | Agency for Healthcare ...
Guidelines and Measures This AHRQ microsite was set up by AHRQ to provide users a place to find information about its legacy guidelines and measures clearinghouses, National Guideline ClearinghouseTM (NGC) and National Quality Measures ClearinghouseTM (NQMC). This information was previously available on guideline.gov and qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov, respectively.
Quality Improvement (QI) Toolkit with Templates, Instructions, and ...
Resource: Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit This toolkit consists of 10 tools and templates—with instructions and examples—for primary care practices to use for quality improvement (QI) projects. The toolkit supports Key Driver 2: Implement a data-driven quality improvement process to integrate evidence into practice procedures.
Comparative Reports on Hospitals
Jul 14, 2022 · Profiles of reports with comparative information for consumers on the quality of care provided by hospitals.
TeamSTEPPS 3.0 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based set of teamwork tools, aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals. The training provides guides, videos, and exercises to practice the skills.