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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.
Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
The Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers helps ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) make care safer for their patients. ASCs can use the toolkit to apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to prevent surgical site infections and other complications and improve safety culture in their facilities.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16(17)-0019
Improving the Emergency Department Discharge Process
This environmental scan examined the state of the emergency department (ED) discharge process and ways to improve it. It identifed factors associated with adult patients at high risk for ED discharge failure.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14(15)-0067-EF
Implementing a State-Level Quality Improvement Collaborative
This resource guide helps State agencies and policymakers, as well as other stakeholders, implement a State-level quality improvement collaborative that addresses a specific clinical concern such as various mental health conditions that affect the Medicaid population.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14(15)-0064-EF
Spanish - Consumer - Tratamientos para los ninos con trastorno del espectro autista/Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
The summary is greater than 3 years old. Findings may be used for research purposes but should not be considered current.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1415-EHC036-B
Toolkit for Improving Perinatal Safety
The Toolkit for Improving Perinatal Safety helps labor and delivery units improve patient safety, team communication, and quality of care for mothers and their newborns. It builds on knowledge gained from AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program and the TeamSTEPPS® teamwork system and from findings from AHRQ's patient safety and medical liability initiative demonstration grants.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 17-0003
Designing Care Management Entities for Youth with Complex Behavioral Health Needs
This implementation guide provides information about the Care Management Entities (CMEs) design process. CMEs coordinate services provided by the many State agencies that serve youth with complex behavioral health needs.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-0009-2-EF
Children's EHR Format: Frequently Asked Questions
These FAQs provide answers about the Children's EHR Format, a set of requirements that contains child-specific items (or items of special importance for children) that identify the incremental functionality (beyond what is needed for adults) that an EHR should have to meet the particular needs of children.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-M027
Consumer Guide - Therapies for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
This guide discusses therapies for children with Autism Specturm Disorder. This consumer guide from the Effective Health Care program is greater than 3 years old. Findings should not be considered current.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A14-EHC036-A
Designing and Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care: The Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions
AHRQ commissioned this guide to identify ways evidence-based strategies to reduce readmissions can be adapted or expanded to better address the transitional care needs of the adult Medicaid population. The guide has been field tested by individual hospitals and groups of hospital quality improvement collaboratives.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16-0047-EF
Case Studies of Exemplary Primary Care Practice Facilitation Training Programs
These case studies describe the formation, operation, and curriculum of three exemplary Primary Care Practice Facilitation (PCPF) training programs. The case studies were selected based on results of an environmental scan of existing PCPF training programs and nominations from leaders in the field.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-0054-EF
