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Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition

The ´óÏóAPPHealth Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd edition, can help primary care practices reduce the complexity of health care, increase patient understanding of health information, and enhance support for patients of all health literacy levels.

Publication Date: February 2015
Publication Number: 15-0023-EF

Health Care Simulation to Advance Safety

This issue brief underscores the helpful role simulation can serve in response to the Ebola virus disease, other emergent epidemic challenges, provider and patient safety, and quality of care in general.

Publication Date: February 2015
Publication Number: 15-0021

Efforts To Improve Patient Safety Result in 1.3 Million Fewer Patient Harms

This document provides preliminary estimates for 2013 on hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), indicating a 17 percent decline, from 145 to 121 HACs per 1,000 discharges, from 2010 to 2013. A cumulative total of 1.3 million fewer HACs were experienced by hospital patients in 2011, 2012, and 2013 relative to the number of HACs that would have occurred if rates had remained steady at the 2010 level.

Publication Date: December 2014
Publication Number: 15-0011-EF

Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers

The Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers helps ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) make care safer for their patients. ASCs can use the toolkit to apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to prevent surgical site infections and other complications and improve safety culture in their facilities.

Publication Date: December 2014
Publication Number: 16(17)-0019

Improving the Emergency Department Discharge Process

This environmental scan examined the state of the emergency department (ED) discharge process and ways to improve it. It identifed factors associated with adult patients at high risk for ED discharge failure.

Publication Date: December 2014
Publication Number: 14(15)-0067-EF

Implementing a State-Level Quality Improvement Collaborative

This resource guide helps State agencies and policymakers, as well as other stakeholders, implement a State-level quality improvement collaborative that addresses a specific clinical concern such as various mental health conditions that affect the Medicaid population.

Publication Date: November 2014
Publication Number: 14(15)-0064-EF

The summary is greater than 3 years old. Findings may be used for research purposes but should not be considered current.

Publication Date: November 2014
Publication Number: A1415-EHC036-B

Toolkit for Improving Perinatal Safety

The Toolkit for Improving Perinatal Safety helps labor and delivery units improve patient safety, team communication, and quality of care for mothers and their newborns. It builds on knowledge gained from AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program and the TeamSTEPPS® teamwork system and from findings from AHRQ's patient safety and medical liability initiative demonstration grants.

Publication Date: November 2014
Publication Number: 17-0003

Designing Care Management Entities for Youth with Complex Behavioral Health Needs

This implementation guide provides information about the Care Management Entities (CMEs) design process. CMEs coordinate services provided by the many State agencies that serve youth with complex behavioral health needs.

Publication Date: September 2014
Publication Number: 14-0009-2-EF

Children's EHR Format: Frequently Asked Questions

These FAQs provide answers about the Children's EHR Format, a set of requirements that contains child-specific items (or items of special importance for children) that identify the incremental functionality (beyond what is needed for adults) that an EHR should have to meet the particular needs of children.

Publication Date: September 2014
Publication Number: 14-M027