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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.
Digital Healthcare Equity Framework
Use of digital healthcare technologies—for clinicians and patients—is growing. To ensure these solutions benefit all patient groups, creators and users must be intentional about equity. This guide will help implement an evidence- and consensus-based framework for improving patient outcomes and advancing healthcare equity.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
ePROs in Clinical Care
The ePROs in Clinical Care is a toolkit funded by AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program, designed to help healthcare systems govern, integrate, and report electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) data for clinical care delivery. The ePROs in Clinical Care toolkit provides evidence-based guidelines and strategies for the use of PROs that are collected electronically, rather than through traditional pen-and-paper methods. The toolkit is organized around three core topic areas where changes may be needed across the health systems: Governance, Integration, and Reporting. The resource is intended to support the growing use of ePROs in clinical care. The toolkit was developed through a grant awarded to the University of Washington.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
EvidenceNOW Tools for Change
This resource offers a searchable collection of over 100 tools to help primary care practices make changes to implement evidence, as well as tools for practice facilitators to assist them.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
Guide to Integrate Patient-Generated Digital Health Data into Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care Settings
This guide was created to support ambulatory care settings of all types in the design and implementation of successful patient-generated health data (PGHD) programs. The guide is organized into six folios that help healthcare providers and vendors navigate the many steps from design, to launch, to maintenance of a successful, sustainable PGHD program.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety
This guide helps hospitals work as partners with patients and families to improve quality and safety by encouraging patients and family members to participate as advisors. The tools help to promote better communication, implement nurse bedside change-of-shift reports, and engage patients and families in discharge planning throughout the hospital stay.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions
This guide presents strategies to design and deliver transitional care to adult Medicaid patients to help reduce hospital readmissions. It provides tools and guidance on who should use them and how.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Improving Medication Safety in High-Risk Medicare Beneficiaries Toolkit
This toolkit provides clinicians and researchers instruments, forms and tools for the ambulatory-based medication therapy management model, which focuses on medication reconciliation and assessment and resolution of drug-related problems in the Medicare population.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital
Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Hospital Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals
This guide presents step-by-step instructions for planning and implementing patient flow improvement strategies to ease emergency department crowding.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process: A Step-by-Step Guide for Rapid-Cycle Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
The Improving Your Office Lab Testing Process Ambulatory Toolkit increases the reliability of the lab testing process within a medical office with step-by-step guidance. Includes checklists and materials to help communicate with patients
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital
Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit
The MATCH toolkit features a step-by-step guide for hospitals to improve medication reconciliation processes as patients move through the health care system.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital, Long-term Care, Outpatient Surgery
