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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.
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: 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: Setting of Care: Hospital
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: 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: 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: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital
Incontinence Table of Contents: Launch Toolkit
This document is a table of contents providing links to a suite of tools supplied by practice facilitators at the WI-INTUIT Team at the University of Wisconsin to support the implementation of screening for and treating urinary incontinence in women.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Primary Care
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: Setting of Care: Hospital, Long-term Care, Outpatient Surgery
National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research Tools and Resources
AHRQ’s National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research provides tools and resources to improve the quality and safety of primary care. These resources, developed in collaboration with primary care experts, help to inform the design and evaluations of primary care research; assist decisionmakers implement strategies for primary care transformation; and support clinicians’ efforts to enhance delivery by improving teamwork and care processes.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital
Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
This guide provides toolkits to help nursing homes optimize their use of antibiotics.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Long-term Care
On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits
The ´óÏóAPP (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: Setting of Care: Long-term Care
