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The 大象视频 (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.
Exploration of Foundational Terminology and Paradigms for Improving Diagnosis
This issue brief explores a variety of terms and perspectives that describe aspects of diagnostic success or consequences of diagnostic failure. It provides historical context, underlying assumptions, implications, limitations, and appropriate use of terms.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 25-0043
Four Pillars for Sustainable Centers of Excellence
This issue brief provides recommendations for Centers of Excellence to consider when developing their sustainability plans. These recommendations are directly applicable to the recently established 大象视频Diagnostic Centers of Excellence.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 25-0041
大象视频Summit to Address Emergency Department Boarding: Technical Report
The 大象视频Summit to Address Emergency Department Boarding convened in October 2024 to engage public and private partners, including patients and consumers; clinicians; hospital and health system leaders; policymakers; experts in emergency medicine, behavioral health, and other medical specialties; and others to identify actionable hospital-level and health system-level solutions to address ED boarding systematically.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 25-0042
Healthcare Simulation Dictionary
AHRQ's Healthcare Simulation Dictionary includes 170 definitions of healthcare simulation terms ranging from 鈥渁vatars鈥 and 鈥渕anikins鈥 to 鈥済amification鈥 and 鈥渧irtual reality.鈥 The definitions, developed by international simulation experts, standardize the growing list of simulation terms in this rapidly expanding field.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0077
Diagnostic Excellence in U.S. Rural Healthcare: A Call to Action
Diagnostic Safety Issue Brief #24
This issue brief explores several critical challenges affecting diagnostic excellence in U.S. rural healthcare settings, emphasizing the need to address these impediments, and proposes three actionable strategies to overcome barriers to delivering high-quality diagnostic care in these areas.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0010-9-EF
The Patient's Role in Diagnostic Safety and Excellence: From Passive Reception Toward Co-Design
Diagnostic Safety Issue Brief #23
Poor communication between medical professionals and patients is a key factor in all diagnostic error. Enhancing communication between patients and their healthcare team is central to improving diagnostic quality in healthcare delivery.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0010-8-EF
An Assessment of Sepsis in the United States and Its Burden on Hospital Care
This report offers a comprehensive assessment of hospital care for sepsis in the United States. It begins with an overview of the Congress's directive in the Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Spending Bill, then provides background on sepsis, including causes, disease progression, comorbidities, risk factors, complications, and treatment.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0087
State of the Science and Future Directions To Improve Diagnostic Safety in Older Adults
Diagnostic Safety Issue Brief #22
This issue brief presents the unique considerations and challenges of studying and improving diagnostic safety for older adults. A number of recent expert workgroups have identified key areas of focus for diagnostic safety research and improvement efforts.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0010-7-EF
Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis
Diagnostic Safety Issue Brief #21
This issue brief is a call to action for healthcare organization leaders and policymakers to bridge clinical laboratory expertise and routine clinical decision making through diagnostic stewardship. We review existing models and strategies to implement diagnostic stewardship practices and identify how these practices can enhance diagnostic safety. We also discuss measuring implementation of diagnostic stewardship and policy implications.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0010-6-EF
Learning from AHRQ's Diagnostic Safety Culture Survey at a Tertiary Care Health System in Brazil: A Case Study
Diagnostic Safety Issue Brief #20.
This case study describes how we used our survey to create an initial approach to developing and implementing a program to recognize and address diagnostic errors. The survey was adapted from AHRQ's Medical Office Surveys on Patient Safety Culture庐 (SOPS庐) Diagnostic Safety Supplemental Item Set.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0010-5-EF
