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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s publications offer practical information to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.
Pastillas que diluyen la sangre
Blood thinner pills - a guide to using them safely in Spanish.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 15-0047-C
Key Lessons from the National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program
This summary, which draws from products produced throughout the National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program, highlights program objectives, the strategies States used, and the lessons learned. This summary also includes short descriptions of selected activities implemented by the CHIPRA quality demonstration States.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 15-0071
Blood Thinner Pills: Your Guide to Using Them Safely
AHRQ offers a free booklet and a video about blood thinner medicines. Staying Active and Healthy with Blood Thinners, a 10-minute video, features easy-to-understand explanations of how blood thinners work and why it's important to take them correctly.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 15-0047-C
High-Performance Work Practices in CLABSI Prevention Interventions
This analysis of case studies developed from participants in AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) national implementation project describes specific practices and "success factors" for reducing and eliminating central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in health care facilities.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 15-0044-EF
Care Management: Implications for Medical Practice, Health Policy, and Health Services Research
This issue brief highlights key strategies to enhance existing or emerging care management programs and summarizes recommendations for decisionmakers in practice and policy, as well as for future research.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 15-0018-EF
The IHA Bundled Episode Payment and Gainsharing Demonstration
This study snapshot presents lessons learned from a demonstration and evaluation grant to develop and implement a bundled payment program, including health plans, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician organizations, physicians, and technology vendors.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 15-0016-2-EF
Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
The Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients helps hospitals make care safer for mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units (ICUs). ICU staff can use the toolkit to apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to reduce complications for patients on ventilators.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16(17)-0018
Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition
The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd edition, can help primary care practices reduce the complexity of health care, increase patient understanding of health information, and enhance support for patients of all health literacy levels.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 15-0023-EF
Health Care Simulation to Advance Safety
This issue brief underscores the helpful role simulation can serve in response to the Ebola virus disease, other emergent epidemic challenges, provider and patient safety, and quality of care in general.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 15-0021
Efforts To Improve Patient Safety Result in 1.3 Million Fewer Patient Harms
This document provides preliminary estimates for 2013 on hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), indicating a 17 percent decline, from 145 to 121 HACs per 1,000 discharges, from 2010 to 2013. A cumulative total of 1.3 million fewer HACs were experienced by hospital patients in 2011, 2012, and 2013 relative to the number of HACs that would have occurred if rates had remained steady at the 2010 level.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 15-0011-EF
