Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

May 3 2011 20110503

Safety Culture Creates Better Care for Patients

January 2 2008 20080102

Tips for Taking Medicines Safely

Audio & Video

September 1 2012 20120901

Asking Questions Before Surgery

May 1 2010 20100501

Where Medical Errors Occur and How to Avoid Them

Other Patient & Consumer Resources

• AHRQ Quality and Patient Safety
• Expanding Patient-Centered Care To Empower Patients and Assist Providers
• National Survey on Consumer Experiences With Patient Safety and Qualit
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors
• Project Overview: Designing Consumer Reporting Systems for Patient Safety Events
• Take Charge with Fran Drescher, Actress and Cancer Survivor
• Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital

Audio & Video

February 27 2013 20130227

Work With the Next Unit

February 26 2013 20130226

Accountability

February 26 2013 20130226

Briefing in Action

February 26 2013 20130226

Daily Goals

February 26 2013 20130226

Why Did It Happen?

February 25 2013 20130225

Create Independent Checks

February 22 2013 20130222

Understand the Science of Safety

September 1 2012 20120901

Dental Office: Opportunity Won

September 1 2012 20120901

Emergency Department: Huddle

September 1 2012 20120901

Emergency Department: I PASS the BATON

September 1 2012 20120901

Emergency Department: Successful outcome using TeamSTEPPS techniques

September 1 2012 20120901

Fundamentals Course: TeamSTEPPS Overview

September 1 2012 20120901

Inpatient Medical: Feedback

September 1 2012 20120901

Inpatient Medical: Opportunity to Apply TeamSTEPPS Technique to Improv

September 1 2012 20120901

Inpatient Medical: SBAR

September 1 2012 20120901

Inpatient Medical: STEP

September 1 2012 20120901

Inpatient Medical: Successful outcome using TeamSTEPPS techniques

September 1 2012 20120901

Inpatient Surgical: Check-Back

September 1 2012 20120901

Inpatient Surgical: Handoff

September 1 2012 20120901

Inpatient Surgical: Opportunity to apply TeamSTEPPS technique to impro

September 1 2012 20120901

Inpatient Surgical: Successful outcome using TeamSTEPPS techniques

September 1 2012 20120901

Labor and Delivery: Brief

September 1 2012 20120901

Labor and Delivery: CUS

September 1 2012 20120901

Labor and Delivery: Call-Out

September 1 2012 20120901

Labor and Delivery: Cross Monitoring

September 1 2012 20120901

Labor and Delivery: Debrief

September 1 2012 20120901

Labor and Delivery: Opportunity to apply TeamSTEPPS technique to improve institutional collaboration and communication relating to patient safety.

September 1 2012 20120901

Oral Surgery: Lost Opportunity

September 1 2012 20120901

Oral Surgery: Opportunity Won

September 1 2012 20120901

Physician's Office: DESC Script

September 1 2012 20120901

Physician's Office: Opportunity to apply TeamSTEPPS technique to improve institutional collaboration and communication relating to patient safety

September 1 2012 20120901

Physician's Office: Opportunity to apply TeamSTEPPS technique to improve institutional collaboration and communication relating to patient safety

September 1 2012 20120901

RRS: Detection

September 1 2012 20120901

RRS: Let's Look Back at Our Example

September 1 2012 20120901

RRS: Let's Watch the RRS in Action

September 1 2012 20120901

RRS: Patient Disposition

September 1 2012 20120901

RRS: RRS Activation

September 1 2012 20120901

RRS: RRS Evaluation

September 1 2012 20120901

RRS: Response, Assessment and Stabilization

September 1 2012 20120901

Sue Sheridan video on Patient Safety

March 1 2012 20120301

Webinar on AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit™ for Hospitals

Transcript: Transcript: Webinar on AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals

May 1 2010 20100501

Where Medical Errors Occur and How to Avoid Them

Clinicians & Providers

• 30 Safe Practices for Better Health Care
• A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation
• AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources
• AHRQ Quality and Patient Safety
• AHRQ Web M&M
• Advancing the Science of Patient Safety
• Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program
• An Agenda for Research in Ambulatory Patient Safety
• Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety
• Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 1: How To Effectively Present Health Care Performance Data To Consumers
• Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 2: Maximizing Consumer Understanding of Public Comparative Quality Reports: Effective Use of Explanatory Information
• Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 3: How to Maximize Public Awareness and Use of Comparative Quality Reports Through Effective Promotion and Dissemination Strategies
• Chapter 3. Description of Methods
• Chapter 4. Results and Key Findings
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6. Discussion and Policy Implications
• Classroom Slides
• Designing Consumer Reporting Systems for Patient Safety Events
• Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Neonatal CLABSI Prevention
• Essentials Instructional Module and Course Slides
• Expanding Patient-Centered Care To Empower Patients and Assist Providers
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Impact of Working Conditions on Patient Safety
• Instructor Slides
• Learn About CUSP, Facilitator Notes
• Main Line Health System Uses Patient Safety Culture Survey in Suburban Philadelphia Facilities
• Making Health Care Safer II
• Making Health Care Safer II
• Making Health Care Safer II
• Medical Liability Reform & Patient Safety Initiative
• Musculoskeletal Disorders, Worker-related
• Newman Memorial Hospital Implements AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Surv
• Patient Safety Improvement Corps: an AHRQ/VA Partnership
• Patient Safety Research Highlights
• Patient Safety Tools: Improving Safety at the Point of Care
• Patient Safety and Quality
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors
• Pocket Guide: TeamSTEPPS
• Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs
• Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital
• TeamSTEPPS Course Management Guide
• Technical Assistance Conference Call Summary
• The Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance Recommended Starter Set
• The Challenge and Potential for Assuring Quality Health Care for the 21st Century
• Toolkit by Patient Safety Issue/Area
• Tools, Methods, and Techniques for Improving Patient Safety
• Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment
• Translation Guidelines for the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture

Hospital & Health System Resources

• 10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals
• 2007 Comparative Database Report
• 30 Safe Practices for Better Health Care
• A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation
• AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources
• AHRQ Quality and Patient Safety
• AHRQ Web M&M
• Additional Tools and Resources
• Additional Tools and Resources
• Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program
• An Agenda for Research in Ambulatory Patient Safety
• Appendix 1-A. Suggested Slides for Module 1
• Appendix 1-B. Pre/Post-Test Questions and Answers for Module 1
• Appendix 2-A. Suggested Slides for Module 2
• Appendix 2-B. Pre/Post-Test Questions and Answers for Module 2
• Appendix 3-A: Suggested Slides for Module 3
• Appendix 3-B. Pre/Post-Test Questions and Answers for Module 3
• Appendix. Additional Tools and Resources
• Appendix: Examples of the SBAR and CUS Tools
• Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety
• Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 1: How To Effectively Present Health Care Performance Data To Consumers
• Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 2: Maximizing Consumer Understanding of Public Comparative Quality Reports: Effective Use of Explanatory Information
• Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 3: How to Maximize Public Awareness and Use of Comparative Quality Reports Through Effective Promotion and Dissemination Strategies
• Chapter 1: Background on Patient Safety and LEP Populations
• Chapter 3. Description of Methods
• Chapter 4. Results and Key Findings
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6. Discussion and Policy Implications
• Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Designing Consumer Reporting Systems for Patient Safety Events
• Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report
• Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide
• Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Neonatal CLABSI Prevention
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Improving Patient Safety Systems for Patients With Limited English Proficiency
• Improving Patient Safety in Hospitals
• Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities
• Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities
• Instructor Slides
• Introduction
• Learning Objectives: Knowledge and Performance Objectives
• Learning Objectives: Knowledge and Performance Objectives
• Learning Objectives: Knowledge and Performance Objectives
• Making Health Care Safer II
• Making Health Care Safer II
• Making Health Care Safer II
• Medical Liability Reform & Patient Safety Initiative
• Module 1. Detecting Change in a Resident's Condition
• Module 1: Detecting Change in a Resident's Condition
• Module 2. Communicating Change in a Resident's Condition
• Module 2: Communicating Change in a Resident's Condition
• Module 3. Falls Prevention
• Module 3: Falls Prevention and Management
• Patient Safety Research Highlights
• Patient Safety Tools: Improving Safety at the Point of Care
• Patient Safety and Quality
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors
• Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism
• Project Overview: Designing Consumer Reporting Systems for Patient Safety Events
• Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs
• Session 1
• Session 1
• Session 1
• Session 2
• Session 2
• Session 2
• Survey User's Guide
• Team Check-up Tool
• Technical Assistance Conference Call Summary
• The Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance Recommended Starter Set
• The Challenge and Potential for Assuring Quality Health Care for the 21st Century
• The Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities
• Toolkit by Patient Safety Issue/Area
• Toolkit for Reduction of Clostridium difficile Infections Through Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Tools, Methods, and Techniques for Improving Patient Safety
• Transforming Hospitals

Policymaker Resources

• AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources
• AHRQ Quality and Patient Safety
• Asking Questions About Medical Tests
• Creating a Personal Medical Record
• First, Do No Harm: Improving Health Quality and Patient Safety
• On-time Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care of Pressure Ulcers
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors
• Tips for Taking Medicines Safely
• Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment

Fact Sheets

September 1 2012 20120901

30 Safe Practices for Better Health Care

September 1 2012 20120901

A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation

September 1 2012 20120901

AHRQ Web M&M

September 1 2012 20120901

Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program

September 1 2012 20120901

Expanding Patient-Centered Care To Empower Patients and Assist Providers

September 1 2012 20120901

Impact of Working Conditions on Patient Safety

September 1 2012 20120901

Patient Safety Challenge Grants

September 1 2012 20120901

Patient Safety Research Highlights

September 1 2012 20120901

Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs

June 30 2012 20120630

AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals: Fact Sheet

Full Research Reports

January 24 2013 20130124

Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report

January 24 2013 20130124

Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Neonatal CLABSI Prevention

December 1 2012 20121201

The Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities

September 1 2012 20120901

Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 1: How To Effectively Present Health Care Performance Data To Consumers

September 1 2012 20120901

Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 2: Maximizing Consumer Understanding of Public Comparative Quality Reports: Effective Use of Explanatory Information

September 1 2012 20120901

Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 3: How to Maximize Public Awareness and Use of Comparative Quality Reports Through Effective Promotion and Dissemination Strategies

September 1 2012 20120901

Chapter 3. Description of Methods

September 1 2012 20120901

Chapter 4. Results and Key Findings

September 1 2012 20120901

Chapter 5

September 1 2012 20120901

Chapter 6. Discussion and Policy Implications

September 1 2012 20120901

Designing Consumer Reporting Systems for Patient Safety Events

September 1 2012 20120901

The Challenge and Potential for Assuring Quality Health Care for the 21st Century

September 1 2012 20120901

Transforming Hospitals

December 1 2010 20101201

Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety

Other Research & Data

• AHRQ Quality and Patient Safety
• AHRQ's clinical care tools help clinicians ensure better and safer care
• Aetna
• Aetna
• Alliant/GMCF Uses AHRQ Patient Safety Surveys and TeamSTEPPS® in Nursing Homes and Hospitals
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Pharmacy Services Corporation
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
• Anthem of Virginia
• Asking Questions About Medical Tests
• Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
• Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois
• Campbell University School of Pharmacy
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Clarinda Regional Health Center
• Comparative Results from the AHRQ Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture
• Connecticut Hospital Association
• Creating a Personal Medical Record
• Creighton University
• Creighton University
• Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council
• David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
• Department of Defense
• Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide
• Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
• First, Do No Harm: Improving Health Quality and Patient Safety
• Georgia Hospital Association
• Georgia QIO Uses AHRQ DVD and Brochure to Educate Medicare Patients About Safe Use of Blood Thinners
• Health Canada
• HealthSouth
• Healthcare Safety and Quality Improvement Research (HSQR) Study Sectio
• Henry Ford Health System
• Henry Ford Health System
• Hill Country Memorial Hospital; University of Texas Health Center at Tyler
• Hospitals in Colombia Use AHRQ's Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
• IFMC
• Imperial College London
• Indian River Memorial Hospital
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• Jennie Edmundson Hospital
• Kaiser Permanente Southern California; Riverside Medical Center, Riverside, California
• Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
• Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
• Main Line Health System Uses Patient Safety Culture Survey in Suburban Philadelphia Facilities
• Maryland Health Care Commission
• Memorial Hospital of Union County
• Memorial Hospital of Union County
• Mercy Hospital and Unity Hospital; Allina Hospitals and Clinics
• Methodist Hospital in Southern California
• Montgomery Memorial Hospital Uses TeamSTEPPS® to Improve Emergency Care
• Multnomah County Health Department
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region Incorporates AHRQ Resources in Training Librarians
• National Survey on Consumer Experiences With Patient Safety and Qualit
• Nebraska Critical Access Hospitals
• New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
• New York Quality Alliance
• New York State Department of Health
• Newman Memorial Hospital Implements AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Surv
• North Dakota Critical Access and Network Hospitals
• Northwest MedStar
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital
• Ochsner Health Systems
• On-time Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care of Pressure Ulcers
• Park Nicollet Health Services
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors
• Premier Inc.
• Premier Inc.
• Premier, Inc.
• Primary Health Care Centers Use AHRQ Materials to Help Patients Use Blood Thinners Safely
• Project Overview: Designing Consumer Reporting Systems for Patient Safety Events
• Register for May 3 Conference on Advancing Quality Improvement Science for Children’s Healthcare Research
• Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
• SSM Health Care
• Saint Vincent Health Center
• Saint Vincent Health Center
• Second Annual Patient Safety Research Conference: Making the Health Ca
• Simpler drug warning labels are easier to understand
• Society of Hospital Medicine
• State of Washington
• SummaCare, Inc.
• Temple University Hospital Uses AHRQ Materials to Educate Patients About Safe Use of Blood Thinners
• The Fraser Institute
• The Leapfrog Group
• The Leapfrog Group
• The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
• The State of Minnesota
• Third Annual Patient Safety Research Conference
• Tips for Taking Medicines Safely
• Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment
• Transparency enhances physician communication with patients
• University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
• VCU Health Systems Clinic Uses AHRQ DVD and Brochures to Educate Patients About Safe Use of Blood Thinners
• VHA, Inc. (formerly Voluntary Hospitals of America)
• Veterans Integrated Service Network, Upstate New York
• Voice for Patients
• West Virginia University Hospitals

Press Releases

March 5 2013 20130305

New AHRQ Evidence Report Details Top Patient Safety Strategies

January 24 2013 20130124

Intensive Care Units for Newborns in Nine States See Sharp Drop in Bloodstream Infections

January 16 2013 20130116

Standard Written Checklists Can Improve Patient Safety During Surgical Crises

September 1 2010 20100901

Study Recommends Disclosure of Medical Mistakes That Affect Multiple Patients

June 11 2010 20100611

HHS Announces Patient Safety and Medical Liability Demonstration Projects

Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

May 3 2011 20110503

Safety Culture Creates Better Care for Patients

January 2 2008 20080102

Tips for Taking Medicines Safely

Other News & Events

• A "diabetes dashboard" screen helps clinicians quickly and accurately access patient data needed for quality diabetes care
• AHRQ Awards $34 Million To Expand Fight Against Healthcare-Associated Infections
• AHRQ Director's Commentary Provides Insight on Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform
• AHRQ Health IT Portfolio 2009 Annual Report Now Available
• AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals: Fact Sheet
• AHRQ Stats
• AHRQ Study Shows Using Bar-code Technology with eMAR Reduces Medication Errors
• AHRQ Tools Support Teamwork and Patient Safety Awareness Week
• AHRQ announces patient safety and medical liability demonstration projects
• AHRQ free online tutorials teach how to use HCUP data
• AHRQ publishes first evaluation highlight on CHIPRA quality demonstration grant program
• AHRQ releases Common Formats for patient safety reporting in skilled nursing facilities
• AHRQ releases report on designing consumer reporting systems for patient safety events
• AHRQ releases training modules to help improve the safety of nursing home residents
• AHRQ toolkit can help hospitals lower preventable readmissions
• AHRQ's clinical care tools help clinicians ensure better and safer care
• AHRQ-funded medical liability and patient safety initiative shows promise for reducing patient harm, lawsuits, and costs
• Adding incentive payments to pay-for-performance hospital program boosts payments to hospitals treating more disadvantaged patients
• Adherence interventions may help patients with hepatitis C
• Adolescent females living in disadvantaged neighborhoods are at increased risk for obesity
• Antipsychotic use among the elderly boosts risk of stroke
• Automated quality measures can be used to improve asthma care
• Automated screening of patient electronic medical records is only the first step to identifying a medication problem
• Cardiac procedures can lead to substantial radiation exposure for patients
• Care processes in nursing home and residential long-term care settings may benefit people with dementia
• Certain factors increase risk of medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
• Certain medications are effective in reducing restless leg syndrome symptoms
• Combining strategies cuts hospitals’ healthcare-associated infection rates
• Computerized Provider Order Entry Cuts Medication Error Likelihood in Half
• Crisis checklists for the operating room can improve safety and management
• Delaying the control of blood pressure among middle-aged adults with diabetes
• Disclosure of funding sources affects physician evaluation of research studies
• Dr. Atul Gawande Discusses Challenges in Health Care with Attendees at AHRQ's Annual Conference
• Electronic health records improve nursing care, coordination, and patient safety
• Electronic medical records reduce negative outcomes and related costs after patient safety events occur
• Electronic order sets can help treatment conform to guidelines for antibiotic use after surgery
• Evaluation of TeamSTEPPS® implementation finds improved teamwork and clinical outcomes
• Factors identified that influence preventable hospitalization rates in small areas over time
• First, Do No Harm: Improving Health Quality and Patient Safety
• From the Director
• From the Director
• From the Director
• Going smooth can help relieve weekday crowding at children's hospitals
• Guide to clinical preventive services now available
• Guideline management of inpatient cellulitis and cutaneous abscess reduces antibiotic use
• HHS Releases National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care Report
• Hawaii's experience shows that a national collaborative effort can reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections
• Health Care Quality Still Improving Slowly, But Disparities and Gaps in Access to Care Persist, According to New AHRQ Reports
• High performance on quality measures linked to financial benefits for nursing homes
• Hospital-acquired infections dramatically increase trauma patients' risk of in-hospital death and hospital stay
• Hospitals face dilemmas about disclosure of large-scale adverse events
• Hospitals with a high volume of sepsis admissions have lowest mortality rates
• Hospitals with a teamwork culture have better patient safety climates
• ICU bed allocation: clinicians prioritize "rescuing" a critically ill patient over societal benefit
• Infliximab may be riskier than etanercept for younger patients with arthritis
• Initiative shows how health IT can advance patient-centered care
• Label changes, manufacturer's warning letter did not reduce use of propofol for conscious sedation in children
• Landmark Initiative to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections Cuts Deaths Among Medicare Patients in Michigan Intensive Care Units
• Leapfrog survey may not accurately report use of safe practices in trauma centers
• Learning networks can help implement strategies to improve emergency department patient flow
• Less than half of pharmacy computer systems studied correctly identified drug-drug interactions
• Low-molecular-weight heparin often used in treating young trauma patients despite insufficient scientific evidence
• MONAHRQ® 4.1 released
• Many Federal drug risk alerts fail to achieve the recommended changes in prescribing
• Many hospitalized children receive numerous medications, raising potential safety concerns
• Medical students, interns, and residents need training to disclose medical errors
• Medicare nonpayment for certain hospital-acquired conditions has not reduced certain infections in hospitals
• Mental demands of pediatric hospital pharmacy staff have varying effects on likelihood of medication errors and adverse events
• Mental illness is common and left untreated in older public housing residents
• More evidence is needed on biomarkers to detect iron deficiency anemia in CKD patients
• Mortality rate and major complications have declined among adult trauma patients cared for in trauma centers
• Most children can delay their first dental visit until age 3 without affecting later dental outcomes
• Most process-of-care events do not harm transplant patients, but they boost costs and lengthen hospital stays
• National Quality Strategy offers free communications toolkit
• Nearly 1 in 10 outpatient computerized prescriptions contains errors
• New AHRQ Report Encourages Adoption of Patient Safety Strategies
• New AHRQ Safety Culture Report Shows Strengths, Areas for More Effort in Nursing Homes
• New AHRQ evidence report details top patient safety strategies
• New AHRQ tool assesses patient safety culture in pharmacies
• New guide available for developing observational comparative effectiveness research
• New measure helps evaluate interventions to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections
• New research examines use of nitrous oxide for labor pain
• New resource helps hospitals get up to speed on safety culture
• New tool released that improves the safety of care for nursing home residents
• New tools help improve patient safety for those with limited English
• No short-term risk of severe cardiac events seen in children taking central nervous system stimulants
• Nurses in hospital units with a higher proportion of short-term patients take longer to respond to patient call lights
• One patient safety indicator may offer a glimpse at a hospital's overall safety record
• One-third of patients with hospital-acquired infections are readmitted
• Outpatient advice on pediatric medication safety is inadequate
• Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform: Putting the Patient First
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors
• Patient surveys are an additional useful tool for identifying adverse events occurring during hospital stays
• Patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack suffer high levels of depression and undertreatment with antidepressants
• Pay-for-performance project showed early gains but tapered in the fourth and fifth years
• Person-to-person transmission of E. coli resistant to fluoroquinolone drugs is rare among hospital patient
• Public reporting of performance data seems to motivate and energize improvements to hospital performance
• Quality of care is similar for safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals
• Register for April 25-26 Conference on Health Disparities Research at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability
• Register for May 8 HCUP Data Users’ Workshop
• Research Activities asks the experts
• Research Briefs
• Self-reported vision impairment does not always predict disability in older adults when other factors are present
• Seniors learn some things from prescription drug advertisements, but can also be misled
• Short spacing between children boosts the older child’s risk of behavioral and cognitive problems
• Simpler drug warning labels are easier to understand
• Standard written checklists can improve patient safety during surgical crises
• Studies examine safety of pain killers among older adults
• Study finds few clinically important differences between first- and second-generation medications for treating schizophrenia
• Study tracks hospitalization rates for various respiratory viruses
• Subscribe now to AHRQ's Patient Safety E-newsletter
• Superficial surgical site infections are a reliable measure of hospital quality
• Surgical risk score does not work well for knee and hip replacement operations
• Survey finds rapid rise in antipsychotic use among young people
• Technical specifications for AHRQ's Common Formats allow electronic collection of patient safety data
• The poor and less educated in Canada are more likely to use health care than their counterparts in the United States
• The proportion of high-risk drugs used by the elderly declined when they gained Medicare Part D coverage
• Toolkit for Reduction of Clostridium difficile Infections Through Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Transitioning to new electronic health records can result in potential safety problems
• Transparency enhances physician communication with patients
• Trauma patients with hospital-acquired infections have poor outcomes, including increased mortality risk
• Trends in diabetes treatment suggest more multidrug regimens, resulting in high financial burden on persons with diabetes and their families
• Trigger tools have potential to detect adverse events following outpatient surgery
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Volume of paid outpatient malpractice claims underscores need for greater patient safety efforts in this area
• When health plans share physicians, they may have less incentive to improve care quality