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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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This tool was designed primarily for users of AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture. The tool is intended for use after your organization administers the survey and analyzes the results. It provides step-by-step guidance to help survey users develop an action plan to improve patient safety culture.
Publication Number: 16-0008-EF
This document provides preliminary estimates for 2014 on hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), indicating a 17 percent decline, from 145 to 121 HACs per 1,000 discharges, from 2010 to 2014. A cumulative total of 2.1 million fewer HACs were experienced by hospital patients in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 relative to the number of HACs that would have occurred if rates had remained steady at the 2010 level. Approximately 87,000 fewer patients died in the hospital as a result of the reduction in HACs, and approximately $19.8 billion in healthcare costs were saved from 2010 to 2014.
Publication Number: 16-0009-EF
This facilitator’s guide assists in reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections, or CAUTI, especially in intensive care units.
Publication Number: 15-0073-4-EF
Final Report on 2013 Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate.
Publication Number: 16-0006-EF
This final project report presents an overview of all evaluation products from the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program, a synthesis of select findings from the national evaluation, observations on the grant program itself, and lessons learned in conducting the evaluation.
Publication Number: 16-0007-EF
This guide was developed based on the experiences and lessons learned from the 15 AHRQ Estimating Costs grants.
Publication Number: 15-0066-3-EF
Blood thinner pills - a guide to using them safely in Spanish.
Publication Number: 15-0047-C
This summary, which draws from products produced throughout the National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program, highlights program objectives, the strategies States used, and the lessons learned. This summary also includes short descriptions of selected activities implemented by the CHIPRA quality demonstration States.
Publication Number: 15-0071
AHRQ offers a free booklet and a video about blood thinner medicines. Staying Active and Healthy with Blood Thinners, a 10-minute video, features easy-to-understand explanations of how blood thinners work and why it's important to take them correctly.
Publication Number: 15-0047-C
This analysis of case studies developed from participants in AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) national implementation project describes specific practices and "success factors" for reducing and eliminating central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in health care facilities.
Publication Number: 15-0044-EF