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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (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.
Guide to Integrate Patient-Generated Digital Health Data into Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care Settings
This guide was created to support ambulatory care settings of all types in the design and implementation of successful patient-generated health data (PGHD) programs. The guide is organized into six folios that help healthcare providers and vendors navigate the many steps from design, to launch, to maintenance of a successful, sustainable PGHD program.
Date Published: December 2021 Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety
This guide helps hospitals work as partners with patients and families to improve quality and safety by encouraging patients and family members to participate as advisors. The tools help to promote better communication, implement nurse bedside change-of-shift reports, and engage patients and families in discharge planning throughout the hospital stay.
Date Published: September 2012 Setting of Care: Hospital
Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions
This guide presents strategies to design and deliver transitional care to adult Medicaid patients to help reduce hospital readmissions. It provides tools and guidance on who should use them and how.
Date Published: August 2014 Setting of Care: Hospital
Improving Medication Safety in High-Risk Medicare Beneficiaries Toolkit
This toolkit provides clinicians and researchers instruments, forms and tools for the ambulatory-based medication therapy management model, which focuses on medication reconciliation and assessment and resolution of drug-related problems in the Medicare population.
Date Published: July 2012 Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital
Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Hospital Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals
This guide presents step-by-step instructions for planning and implementing patient flow improvement strategies to ease emergency department crowding.
Date Published: September 2012 Setting of Care: Hospital
Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process: A Step-by-Step Guide for Rapid-Cycle Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
The Improving Your Office Lab Testing Process Ambulatory Toolkit increases the reliability of the lab testing process within a medical office with step-by-step guidance. Includes checklists and materials to help communicate with patients
Date Published: January 2018 Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital
Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit
The MATCH toolkit features a step-by-step guide for hospitals to improve medication reconciliation processes as patients move through the health care system.
Date Published: August 2012 Setting of Care: Hospital, Long-term Care, Outpatient Surgery
Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
This guide provides toolkits to help nursing homes optimize their use of antibiotics.
Date Published: October 2016 Setting of Care: Long-term Care
On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits to help nursing homes with electronic medical records identify residents at risk for events that could lead to a hospital visit.
Date Published: November 2017 Setting of Care: Long-term Care
On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing
This toolkit was developed to provide nursing homes that have an electronic medical records system with tools to effectively monitor and manage pressure ulcers. Clinical reports provide information about the number and types of pressure ulcers that residents have developed.
Date Published: April 2016 Setting of Care: Long-term Care
