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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.
Clinical-Community Relationships Measures (CCRM) Atlas
The Clinical Community Relationships Measures Atlas identifies ways to further define, measure, and evaluate programs based on clinical-community relationships for the delivery of clinical preventive servicesprevention. The measures are organized according to a framework that includes the relationships between clinicians, patients, and community resources.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-0334-EF
Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide
This final report summarizes the progress that was made during the On the CUSP: Stop BSI project , a unique partnership with the Health Research & Educational Trust, the Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group, and the Michigan Health & Hospital Association's Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12(13)-0087-1-EF
Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: A Progress Report on the National On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project, Neonatal CLABSI Prevention
This progress report on the National On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project, Neonatal CLABSI Prevention provides an overview of the project's accomplishments and discusses the project's next steps.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-0013-EF
Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: A Companion Guide to the National On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project Final Report
This companion guide provides supporting documentation for the final report for the On the CUSP: Stop BSI project.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12-0087-EF
Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection
This final report discusses techniques to improve the identification and surveillance of likely cases of surgical site infection using data on four common procedures (hernia repair, coronary artery bypass grafts, and hip and knee arthroplasty).
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12-0046-EF
The Challenge and Potential for Assuring Quality Health Care for the 21st Century
This report documents some of the existing quality problems in the healthcare system and identifies current strategies that have proven effective at improving quality outcomes, increasing confidence, and often reducing healthcare costs. It also underscores why a national effort is needed to improve the quality of healthcare.
Publication Date: Publication Number: OM 98-0009
Designing Consumer Reporting Systems for Patient Safety Events
Based on a series of technical expert panel meetings, consumer focus groups, interviews with key stakeholders, and an environment scan and literature review, this project addressed a series of questions about the ideal characteristics of a consumer reporting system, and how such a system could be realistically implemented.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 11-0060-EF
Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. Volumes 1-4
Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation describes what federally funded programs have accomplished in understanding medical errors and implementing programs to improve patient safety over the last 5 years.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 05-0021-(1-4)
Improving Patient Safety Systems for Patients With Limited English Proficiency
This TeamSTEPPS guide helps enhance safety for patients with limited English proficiency.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12-0041
Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals
This guide presents instructions for hospitals to use to plan and implement patient flow improvement strategies to ease emergency department crowding.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 11(12)-0094
