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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.
Potential Measures for Clinical-Community Relationships: A Supplement to the Clinical-Community Relationships Measures Atlas
This supplement suggests 52 potential measures that could be developed to fill the gaps in existing measurements. The supplement also proposes a core set of 13 measures culled from both the existing measures in the Atlas and the 52 potential measures that have been judged to represent the essential aspects of clinical community relationships for prevention.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 14-0008-EF
Understanding the Role of Health Care Facility Design in the Acquisition and Prevention of HAIs
This report summarizes the role of the built environment in the transmission of pathogens and discusses the impact that design features could have in mitigating transmission in healthcare facilities.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-0053-EF
Eliminating CAUTI: A National Patient Safety Imperative Interim Data Report on the National On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI Project
This interim data report discusses accomplishments and next steps in the National On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI Project.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-0071-EF
Clinical-Community Relationships Evaluation Roadmap
The Clinical-Community Relationships Evaluation Roadmap is a resource for understanding effective clinical-community resource relationships. The roadmap is rooted in a conceptual framework that depicts the interrelationships between several factors that may influence the effectiveness of linkages between primary care clinics and community resources for preventive services.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-M015-EF
Environmental Scan of Patient Safety Education and Training Programs
This report presents the results of an environmental scan of existing patient safety education and training programs. It presents data collected and cataloged on 333 current, active, and recurring patient safety education and training programs; a characterization of those programs by various factors, including sponsor, target audience, program objectives, delivery method, duration, and cost; and recommendations for potential future patient safety education and training efforts.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-0051-EF
Practice Facilitation Handbook: Training Modules for New Facilitators and Their Trainers
The Practice Facilitator’s Handbook is designed to assist in the training of new practice facilitators as they begin to develop the knowledge and skills needed to support meaningful improvement in primary care practices.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-0046-EF
Building Quality Improvement Capacity in Primary Care
This decisionmaker brief explores supports and resources for building quality improvement capacity in primary care.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-0044-2-EF
Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical Site Infection in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
This report e provides the results of a study AHRQ commissioned in August 2010 that had two primary objectives: using proactive risk assessment to identify the realm of risk factors associated with surgical site infections resulting from procedures performed at ambulatory surgery centers and to design an intervention to reduce the likelihood of such infections due the most common risk factors identified by the proactive risk assessment.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12-0045-EF
Creating Capacity for Improvement in Primary Care: The Case for Developing a Quality Improvement Infrastructure
This decisionmaker b explores the case for developing a quality improvement infrastructure in primary care settings.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-0044-1-EF
Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices
This volume reviews important patient safety practices for evidence of effectiveness, implementation, and adoption.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-E001-1-EF
