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The ´óÏóAPP (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.
´óÏóAPPPharmacy Health Literacy Center
This site provides pharmacists with six health literacy tools. Curricular modules that can help pharmacy faculty integrate health literacy quality improvement into courses, experiential education, and projects are also available.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital
AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training Modules for Health Care Leaders and Professionals
These interactive training tools teach strategies that health care organizations and clinical teams can use to ensure that people understand their alternatives, including the option of not having any treatment.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital, Outpatient Surgery
´óÏóAPPSafety Program for End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Facilities Toolkit
This toolkit helps dialysis center clinicians prevent healthcare-associated infections and make care safer by following clinical best practices, creating a culture of safety, using checklists and other audit tools, and engaging with patients and their families.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Long-term Care
Clinical Decision Support Tools
This best practice advisory is based on a practice-based intervention to improve care for a diverse population of women with urinary incontinence.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Primary Care
Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) Toolkit
The CANDOR toolkit contains eight modules that include PowerPoint slides with facilitator notes, tools, resources, and videos, to help health care institutions and practitioners respond when unexpected events cause a patient harm.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit
The Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) Patient Safety Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit helps clinicians and clinical informaticians in primary care and other ambulatory settings implement and adopt the community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) clinical decision support alert to identify the severity of a patient’s CAP and determine the appropriate site of care to manage it.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
Community Connections Obesity Referral Toolkit
This toolkit helps primary care practices determine and evaluate what accessible and affordable resources exist in their community for patients struggling with obesity and/or prediabetes; establish a productive relationship with community partners and develop a bidirectional referral process that integrates directly into existing patient flow; and enhance engagement strategies with patients.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) Toolkit
Created for clinicians by clinicians, this toolkit includes training tools to make care safer by improving the foundation of how physicians, nurses, and other clinical team members work together and builds the capacity to address safety issues by combining clinical best practices and the science of safety. Additional ´óÏóAPPtoolkits build on the CUSP model to address problems such as central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), infections associated with ventilators, surgical complications, and more.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital, Outpatient Surgery
Female Urinary Incontinence Smart Set
This document contains the Smart Set—an EHR clinical decision-making tool—that the IT2 Team – Northwestern Medicine study team provided to clinicians.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Primary Care
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: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
