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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.
The SHARE Approach
The SHARE Approach is a clinician-led shared decision-making model with five essential elements for meaningful dialogue with patients exploring benefits, harms, and risks of options and what matters most to them.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Outpatient Surgery
Toolkit for Decolonization of non-ICU Patients With Devices
This toolkit can help hospital infection prevention programs implement a decolonization protocol that was found to reduce bloodstream infections by roughly 30 percent in adult inpatients who were not in intensive care units and who had specific medical devices. It includes implementation instructions, demonstration videos, and customizable tools.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Toolkit for Engaging Patients To Improve Diagnostic Safety
This toolkit is designed to promote enhanced communication and information sharing within the patient-provider encounter so patients, families, and health professionals can work together as partners to improve diagnostic safety.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
Toolkit for Improving Perinatal Safety
This toolkit helps hospital labor and delivery units improve patient safety, team communication, and quality of care for mothers and their newborns with an aim of decreasing maternal and neonatal adverse events resulting from poor communication and system failures.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery
This toolkit helps hospitals implement evidence-based practices to improve outcomes and prevent complications among patients who undergo surgery.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs
This customizable, educational toolkit aims to help hospital intensive care units (ICUs) reduce rates of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). Using the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and other evidence-based practices, the toolkit helps ICUs assess their current CLABSI and CAUTI prevention efforts, has resources to help ICUs overcome common challenges in infection-reduction efforts, and provides the clinical and cultural guidance to make changes needed to decrease CLABSI and CAUTI rates.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Toolkit for Using the ´óÏóAPPQuality Indicators
This toolkit is designed to support hospitals in assessing and improving the quality and safety of care they provide. The QI Toolkit is designed as a flexible, modifiable set of tools that can be selected according to a hospital's needs.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients In Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings
A Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients in Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings provides strategies, tools, and education to help staff who work in ambulatory care facilities prepare patients for new and follow-up appointments in order to prevent errors during transitions in care.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care
Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
Hospital intensive care unit (ICU) staff can use the toolkit to apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce complications for mechanically ventilated patients.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
The Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers helps ambulatory surgery centers make care safer for their patients. Ambulatory surgery centers 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.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital, Outpatient Surgery
