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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers practical, research-based tools and other resources to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.
Action Planning Tool for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture
This tool was designed for users of the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture and is intended for use after an organization administers one of the five culture surveys and analyzes the results. It provides step-by-step guidance to help survey users develop an action plan to improve patient safety culture.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy Center
This site provides pharmacists with six health literacy tools. Curricular modules that can help pharmacy faculty integrate health literacy quality improvement into courses, experiential education, and projects are also available.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital
AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training Modules for Health Care Leaders and Professionals
These interactive training tools teach strategies that health care organizations and clinical teams can use to ensure that people understand their alternatives, including the option of not having any treatment.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital, Outpatient Surgery
AHRQ Safety Program for End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Facilities Toolkit
This toolkit helps dialysis center clinicians prevent healthcare-associated infections and make care safer by following clinical best practices, creating a culture of safety, using checklists and other audit tools, and engaging with patients and their families.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Long-term Care
Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits
Three toolkits that help hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices apply the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making to improve antibiotic use.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Long-term Care, Hospital
Calibrate Dx: A Resource To Improve Diagnostic Decisions
Self-evaluation tool for clinicians to improve their diagnostic decision making. This resource provides structured exercises and tools to help clinicians learn from reviewing their clinical practice. Anyone whose scope of practice includes medical diagnosis can use Calibrate Dx.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) Toolkit
The CANDOR toolkit contains eight modules that include PowerPoint slides with facilitator notes, tools, resources, and videos, to help health care institutions and practitioners respond when unexpected events cause a patient harm.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit
The Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) Patient Safety Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit helps clinicians and clinical informaticians in primary care and other ambulatory settings implement and adopt the community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) clinical decision support alert to identify the severity of a patient’s CAP and determine the appropriate site of care to manage it.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
Community Connections Obesity Referral Toolkit
This toolkit helps primary care practices determine and evaluate what accessible and affordable resources exist in their community for patients struggling with obesity and/or prediabetes; establish a productive relationship with community partners and develop a bidirectional referral process that integrates directly into existing patient flow; and enhance engagement strategies with patients.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) Toolkit
Created for clinicians by clinicians, this toolkit includes training tools to make care safer by improving the foundation of how physicians, nurses, and other clinical team members work together and builds the capacity to address safety issues by combining clinical best practices and the science of safety. Additional AHRQ toolkits build on the CUSP model to address problems such as central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), infections associated with ventilators, surgical complications, and more.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital, Outpatient Surgery
