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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (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.
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The Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery helps perioperative and surgical units in hospitals identify opportunities to improve care and safety practices and implement evidence-based interventions to prevent surgical site infections. For a toolkit that focuses on ambulatory surgery centers, access the AHRQ Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
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16(18)-0004
This consumer guide from the Effective Health Care program is greater than 3 years old. Findings should not be considered current.
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A1518-EHC027-B
Tal vez haya oído que los ácidos grasos omega-3 (de ciertos alimentos y suplementos dietéticos) son buenos para su corazón. Este resumen le explicará lo que han encontrado los investigadores acerca de los ácidos grasos omega-3 y la enfermedad cardiovascular (enfermedad que afecta al corazón y los vasos sanguíneos).
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A1718-EHC010-B
This consumer guide from the Effective Health Care program is greater than 3 years old. Findings should not be considered current.
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A1618-EHC012-B
The 2017 CAHPS Health Plan Survey Chartbook summarizes what consumers have to say in a standardized survey about their experiences with their health plans and medical care.
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18-0003-EF
AHRQ is undertaking activities to develop an effective and feasible approach for using all-payer claims databases(ACPD) to advance the goal of improving healthcare affordability, efficiency, and cost transparency, including developing this inventory of APCD-based measures.
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17(18)-0022-3-EF
Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, Technical Documentation summarizes the approach taken to create the list of U.S. health systems. This consolidated list is intended to be an initial resource for researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders who want to identify and describe systems with the ultimate goal of understanding how health systems can improve the cost and quality of healthcare.
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17-0047-EF
This toolkit, called the AHRQ QI Toolkit, is both a general guide to applying improvement methods in a hospital setting and a guide to improving performance specifically using the AHRQ QIs. The toolkit serves as a “how to” for the improvement process—from the first stage of self-assessment through the final stage of ongoing monitoring.
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17-0049
Esta información proviene de un informe de investigación que fue financiado por la AHRQ (Agencia para la Investigación y Calidad de la Atención Médica; AHRQ, por su sigla en inglés), una agencia del gobierno federal. Los investigadores revisaron 154 estudios de investigación acerca del tratamiento de la gota. S
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A1617-EHC017-B
Los coágulos son serios. Es importante saber los señales y conseguir tratado enseguida. Esta guía describe maneras de prevenir y de tratar coágulos; síntomas; y efectos secundarios de la medicación así como cuándo ir a la sala de urgencias.
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09-0067-C
