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The ´óÏóÊÓƵ (AHRQ) offers practical, research-based tools and other resources to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.
On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention
The ´óÏóÊÓƵ (AHRQ) created On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention to help nursing homes with electronic medical records reduce the occurrence of in-house pressure ulcers. Pressure ulcers remain a serious problem in nursing homes despite regulatory and market approaches to encourage prevention and treatment.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Long-term Care
Preventing Falls in Nursing Facilities
This toolkit assists nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered care and improving their fall care processes and outcomes through educational and quality improvement tools.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Long-term Care
Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism
This updated guide, which is based on the latest scientific evidence, includes tools and resources for hospital staff to prevent hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals
These materials assist hospital staff in implementing effective pressure ulcer prevention practices through an interdisciplinary approach to care.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
This toolkit assists hospitals, including those that serve diverse populations, improve their hospital discharge process to reduce avoidable readmissions and posthospital emergency department visits. A guide for patients and families, available in English and Spanish, was developed as part of the toolkit.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital, Long-term Care
Team Strategies and Tools To Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS)
TeamSTEPPS is a customizable program to improve patient safety by training clinicians in teamwork and communication skills. The TeamSTEPPS curriculum 3.0 materials include six Welcome Guides for different audiences, a pocket guide of tools and concepts for trainees, and various training videos to illustrate TeamSTEPPS tools and concepts. The TeamSTEPPS 3.0 curriculum is composed of Introduction, four Modules (Communication, Team Leadership, Situation Monitoring, and Mutual Support) and Implementation of TeamSTEPPS.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital, Long-term Care, Outpatient Surgery
The SHARE Approach
The SHARE Approach is a clinician-led shared decision-making model with five essential elements for meaningful dialogue with patients exploring benefits, harms, and risks of options and what matters most to them.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Outpatient Surgery
Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
Hospital intensive care unit (ICU) staff can use the toolkit to apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce complications for mechanically ventilated patients.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
The Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers helps ambulatory surgery centers make care safer for their patients. Ambulatory surgery centers can use the toolkit to apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to prevent surgical site infections and other complications and improve safety culture in their facilities.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital, Outpatient Surgery
Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections
These tools help implement evidence-based practices and eliminate central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI). When used with the CUSP (Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program) Toolkit, these tools dramatically reduced CLABSI rates in more than 1,000 hospitals across the country.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital, Outpatient Surgery
