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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.
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
MRSA Prevention Toolkit: ICUs & non-ICUs
This toolkit equips healthcare professionals with the essential knowledge, resources, and tools to tackle prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospital intensive care units and non-intensive care units.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI
This toolkit provides the resources and tools to help tackle the complex problems of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and surgical site infection prevention for surgical services, specifically cardiac, hip and knee joint replacement, and spinal fusion surgeries.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Outpatient Surgery, Hospital
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
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: Setting of Care: Long-term Care
On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention
The ´óÏóAPP (AHRQ) created On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention to help nursing homes with electronic medical records reduce the occurrence of in-house pressure ulcers. Pressure ulcers remain a serious problem in nursing homes despite regulatory and market approaches to encourage prevention and treatment.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Long-term Care
