AHRQ Tools To Reduce Hospital-Acquired Conditions
Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HACs) are conditions that a patient develops while in the hospital being treated for something else. These conditions cause harm to patients. Hospitals and healthcare providers are focused on reducing specific HACs that occur frequently, can cause significant harm, and are often preventable based on existing evidence. To reduce these HACs and other adverse events in hospitals, frontline clinicians and others use many of the methods, tools, and resources listed below that AHRQ has developed.
Antibiotic Use: Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals
Adverse drug events: Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI): Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals
Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI): Tools for Reducing CLABSI
Clostridium difficile infections: Toolkit for Reduction of Clostridium difficile Infections Through Antimicrobial Stewardship
Injuries and falls from immobility: Preventing Falls in Hospitals
Intensive care units: Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs
Medical devices: Toolkit for Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients With Devices
Obstetrical adverse events: Toolkit for Improving Perinatal Safety
Pressure Ulcers: Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care
Surgical site infections: Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery
Venous Thromboembolism (VTE): Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP): Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
Frontline clinical teams are also using these AHRQ resources to help build the foundation to make care safer and tackle specific HACs, including healthcare-associated infections:
