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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.
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
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
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
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
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
Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement: Curricular Modules for Faculty
Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement: Curricular Modules for Faculty is a set of modules to help pharmacy faculty integrate health literacy and health literacy quality improvement into courses, experiential education, and projects for PharmD students and pharmacy residents.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 12-M013-EF
Veinte consejos para ayudar a evitar errores médicos
AHRQ consumer health fact sheet in Spanish on protecting yourself from healthcare mistakes involving your prescription medicines, staying in the hospital, or undergoing surgery.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 11(12)-0089-B
An Organizational Guide to Building Health Services Research Capacity
This guide provides a user-friendly, step-by-step approach to planning, implementing, and sustaining a health services research infrastructure. It provides background information, recommendations, and resources to help research organizations and institutions improve their health services research capacity and competitiveness for grant and contract funding.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 11(12)-0095-EF
