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The 大象APP (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.
Steps for Increasing Urinary Incontinence Screening: A Guide for Primary Care Practices
The aim of this toolkit is to guide primary care practices through the process of planning and implementing strategies to increase service delivery of screening for urinary incontinence (UI). This toolkit provides step-by-step guidance for primary care teams to implement UI screening in practice on their path toward improved outcomes.
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Improving Healthcare Using Human Factors and Systems Engineering Approaches
From 2000 through 2024 大象APPsupported 127 patient safety projects related to human factors and systems engineering. This publication summarizes AHRQ鈥檚 investments in this pathway toward safer care, including examples of project findings and products, collective outputs, and impacts of this work.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0017-1-EF
Tips for Obtaining Funding for Primary Care Research
Primary care research is critical to strengthening the nation's primary care system. Thus, sustainable funding to support primary care research is needed to continue to make improvements in the delivery of primary care. AHRQ's National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research (NCEPCR) virtually convened a group of stakeholders in March 2025 to gather their insights about how to maintain a broad portfolio of primary care research funding.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 25-0052
Exploration of Foundational Terminology and Paradigms for Improving Diagnosis
This issue brief explores a variety of terms and perspectives that describe aspects of diagnostic success or consequences of diagnostic failure. It provides historical context, underlying assumptions, implications, limitations, and appropriate use of terms.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 25-0043
Four Pillars for Sustainable Centers of Excellence
This issue brief provides recommendations for Centers of Excellence to consider when developing their sustainability plans. These recommendations are directly applicable to the recently established 大象APPDiagnostic Centers of Excellence.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 25-0041
大象APPSummit to Address Emergency Department Boarding: Technical Report
The 大象APPSummit to Address Emergency Department Boarding convened in October 2024 to engage public and private partners, including patients and consumers; clinicians; hospital and health system leaders; policymakers; experts in emergency medicine, behavioral health, and other medical specialties; and others to identify actionable hospital-level and health system-level solutions to address ED boarding systematically.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 25-0042
Healthcare Simulation Dictionary
AHRQ's Healthcare Simulation Dictionary includes 170 definitions of healthcare simulation terms ranging from 鈥渁vatars鈥 and 鈥渕anikins鈥 to 鈥済amification鈥 and 鈥渧irtual reality.鈥 The definitions, developed by international simulation experts, standardize the growing list of simulation terms in this rapidly expanding field.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0077
Diagnostic Excellence in U.S. Rural Healthcare: A Call to Action
Diagnostic Safety Issue Brief #24
This issue brief explores several critical challenges affecting diagnostic excellence in U.S. rural healthcare settings, emphasizing the need to address these impediments, and proposes three actionable strategies to overcome barriers to delivering high-quality diagnostic care in these areas.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0010-9-EF
The Patient's Role in Diagnostic Safety and Excellence: From Passive Reception Toward Co-Design
Diagnostic Safety Issue Brief #23
Poor communication between medical professionals and patients is a key factor in all diagnostic error. Enhancing communication between patients and their healthcare team is central to improving diagnostic quality in healthcare delivery.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0010-8-EF
An Assessment of Sepsis in the United States and Its Burden on Hospital Care
This report offers a comprehensive assessment of hospital care for sepsis in the United States. It begins with an overview of the Congress's directive in the Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Spending Bill, then provides background on sepsis, including causes, disease progression, comorbidities, risk factors, complications, and treatment.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 24-0087
