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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.
The AHRQ Informed Consent and Authorization Toolkit for Minimal Risk Research
This toolkit contains information for people responsible for ensuring that potential research subjects are informed in a manner that is consistent with medical ethics and regulatory guidelines.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 09-0089-EF
Guide to Patient and Family Engagement: Environmental Scan Report
This environmental scan served as an evidence-based foundation for the development of the Guide to Patient and Family Engagement: Enhancing the Quality and Safety of Hospital Care.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12-0042-EF
The Number of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Practicing Primary Care in the United States
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are health professions begun in the United States in the 1960s in response to shortages and uneven distribution of physicians.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12-P001-3-EF
Tracking and Improving Screening for Colorectal Cancer Intervention: A Systems Approach
These materials enable implementation of the System Approach to Tracking and Increasing Screening for Public Health Improvement of Colorectal Cancer intervention. This toolkit includes materials for planning the intervention, identifying a central entity to manage the program, educating medical practices about the program, and communicating with patients.
Publication Date: Publication Number: AHRQ 11-0016
Reducing Waste and Inefficiency in Health Care Through Lean Process Redesign: Literature Review
This literature review explores possible adaptation of Lean/Toyota Production Systems to healthcare settings.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 09-M028-EF
The Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce
This fact sheet shows that primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants are more likely to practice in rural areas than are non-primary care specialists, but are still more concentrated in urban areas.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12-P001-4-EF
Improving Patient Safety Through Simulation Research
This fact sheet summarizes grant awards for simulation research projects funded by AHRQ in FY 2011.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 11-P012-EF
Health Care Systems for Tracking Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests
This report summarizes the experience of a partnership in implementing and assessing a healthcare intervention to increase colorectal cancer screening and followup. This report also contains a description of dissemination plans and efforts to date to spread the uptake of this intervention to other healthcare settings.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 11-0016-1-EF
The Number of Practicing Primary Care Physicians in the United States
Among physicians in the United States who spend the majority of their time in direct patient care, slightly less than one-third are specialists in primary care.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12-P001-2-EF
Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities: Training Modules
These educational materials are intended for front-line personnel in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. The training materials address detecting change in a resident's condition, communicating change in a resident's condition, and falls prevention and management.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12-0001
