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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 Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities
The Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities helps long-term care facilities reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection and improve practices to prevent healthcare-associated infections.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16(17)-0003
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2014
The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services includes U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on screening, counseling, and preventive medication topics and includes clinical recommendations for each topic. Current recommendations are available on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force website.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-05158
Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture - 2014 User Comparative Database Report
Comparative results for 2014 are provided for the items and patient safety culture dimensions on the AHRQ Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture to allow medical offices to compare their survey results against the results from 935 medical offices and 27,103 staff respondents.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-0032-EF
Care Coordination Measures Atlas Update
The Care Coordination Measures Atlas includes measures of patient and caregiver experiences with care coordination, as well as experiences of healthcare professionals and health system managers.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-0037-EF
Integrating Primary Care Practices and Community-based Resources to Manage Obesity: A Bridge-building Toolkit for Rural Primary Care Practices
This toolkit is intended for primary care practices to manage obesity. It provides tools and concepts that have been informed by the real world of six primary care practices in three rural Oregon communities.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-0043-EF
Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide -Third Edition (2 Volumes)
This user’s guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 1314-EHC111
Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity
This toolkit helps primary care practices determine and evaluate what accessible and affordable resources exist in the community for patients struggling with obesity and/or prediabetes; helps primary care practices establish a productive relationship with community partners so that each party benefits, as well as the patients; helps primary care practices work with community partners to develop a bidirectional referral process that integrates directly into your existing patient flow; and helps primary care practices enhance engagement strategies with patients so that the referral process becomes a meaningful conversation with increased potential for patient activation.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-0030-EF
Background Report on 2013 Retirement of CHIPRA Measures from the Child Core Set
This report describes the process used by AHRQ's Subcommittee on Quality Measures for Children's Healthcare for Medicaid and CHIP to review and assess measures in the initial core set of healthcare quality measures for children (the child core set) and identify those measures appropriate for retirement.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-0027-EF
Transitioning Newborns From NICU to Home
This toolkit includes resources for hospitals that wish to improve safety when newborns transition home from their neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) by creating a Health Coach Program, tools for coaches, and information for parents and families of newborns who have spent time in the NICU.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12(14)-0054-EF
The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) and User’s Guide: An Instrument To Assess the Understandability and Actionability of Print and Audiovisual Patient Education Materials
The PEMAT is a method to evaluate and compare the understandability and actionability of patient education materials. It is designed as a guide to help determine whether patients will be able to understand and act on information.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-0002-EF
