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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Publication Number: 11(12)-0095-EF
Preguntas para mi cita médica
¿Cuáles son las tres principales preguntas que no puede dejar de hacer durante su cita?
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Publication Number: 10(11)-0094-2
My Questions for This Visit
Patients can use this card to list the questions they want to ask during medical visits.
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Publication Number: 10(11)-0094-1
Cómo cuidarme: Guía para cuando salga del hospital
Cómo cuidarme: Guía para cuando salga del hospital es una guía que los proveedores de atención médica pueden utilizar para ofrecer a los pacientes información útil que necesitan para poder cuidarse por sí mismos, una vez salgan del hospital.
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Publication Number: 10-0059-C
Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital
The easy-to-read guide can be used by both hospital staff and patients during the discharge process and provides a way for patients to track their medication schedules, upcoming medical appointments, and important phone numbers.
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Publication Number: 10-0059
Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement
This report by the Institute of Medicne identifies standardized categories for the variables of race, ethnicity, and language that can be used to facilitate the sharing, compilation, and comparison of quality data stratified by the standard categories.
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Publication Number: 10-0058-EF
10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals
Medical errors may occur in different healthcare settings, and those that happen in hospitals can have serious consequences. AHRQ, which has sponsored hundreds of patient safety research and implementation projects, offers these 10 evidence-based tips to prevent adverse events from occurring in your hospital.
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Publication Number: 10-M008
Advancing Patient Safety: A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation
This document highlights some of AHRQ’s contributions in advancing patient safety from 1999 to 2009.
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Publication Number: 09(10)-0084