National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
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Tools
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.
Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery
This toolkit helps surgical units improve safety culture and reduce surgical site infections and other complications.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital, Outpatient Surgery
Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections
These tools help implement evidence-based practices and eliminate central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI). When used with the CUSP (Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program) Toolkit, these tools dramatically reduced CLABSI rates in more than 1,000 hospitals across the country.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital, Outpatient Surgery
Tracking and Improving Screening for Colorectal Cancer
This toolkit includes materials for planning an intervention, identifying a central entity to manage the program, educating medical practices about the program, and communicating with patients.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital
Transitioning Newborns From NICU to Home: A Resource Toolkit
This toolkit provides customizable resources for hospitals that wish to improve safety when newborns transition home from the neonatal intensive care unit by creating a health coach program.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Hospital
Urinary Incontinence EHR Screening Tools Tip Sheets
Tip Sheets to guide clinicians and clinical support staff on how to review female urinary incontinence screening tools in their EHR, and also screening invitation language (in English & Spanish).
Date Published: Setting of Care: Primary Care
Urinary Incontinence Treatment Algorithm
This document is a table of contents providing links to a suite of tools supplied by the University of Wisconsin practice facilitation team to support implementation of screening for and treating urinary incontinence. Resources include a UI treatment algorithm, patient education materials, practice launch videos, electronic health record (EHR) templates, and more.
Date Published: Setting of Care: Primary Care