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The ´óÏóÊÓƵ (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.
Veinte consejos para ayudar a evitar errores médicos
´óÏóÊÓƵconsumer 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
Preguntas para mi cita médica
¿Cuáles son las tres principales preguntas que no puede dejar de hacer durante su cita?
Publication Date: 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.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 10(11)-0094-1
Cómo cuidarme: GuÃa para cuando salga del hospital
Cómo cuidarme: GuÃa para cuando salga del hospital es una guÃa que los proveedores de atención médica pueden utilizar para ofrecer a los pacientes información útil que necesitan para poder cuidarse por sà mismos, una vez salgan del hospital.
Publication Date: 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.
Publication Date: 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.
Publication Date: 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.
Publication Date: 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.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 09(10)-0084
Disaster Alternate Care Facilities: Report and Interactive Tools
A public health emergency can strain the capacity of hospitals and other traditional venues for medical services. In such emergencies, it may be necessary to select alternate facilities for providing medical care. The report beginning below, and the related interactive computer tools, will help institutions and communities select alternate care facilities and determine which patients to send to them. The two new interactive tools are Disaster Alternate Care Facility Selection Tool and an ancillary tool, Alternate Care Facility Patient Selection Tool
Publication Date: Publication Number: 09-0062
