Has your organization used an AHRQ tool to improve patient care, make a culture change or save costs?
Individuals in the top 1 percent of healthcare expenditure tier accounted for an average of $166,980 in expenditures in 2021, nearly $30,000 more than in 2019 or 2018. (Source: AHRQ Medical ...
This toolkit, developed through an AHRQ Patient Safety Learning Lab, consists of a formal risk assessment and tailored plan of care for each patient. The toolkit has reduced falls by 25 percent in ...
1. Why a Daily Huddle? What is a huddle? It’s a short, standup meeting, 10 minutes or less, that is typically used ONCE at the start of each workday. In inpatient settings using huddles, there is a ...
In acknowledgement that the U.S. healthcare system can be excessively complex, health literate organizations take responsibility to ensure that everyone, especially the vulnerable, is able to find, ...
This section of the toolkit offers some strategies for those who seek to serve as change agents in their organizations to improve the informed consent and authorization process. Post AHRQ sample ...
Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care ...
Each Federal department must have a process to ensure meaningful and timely input by tribal officials in development of regulatory and other policies with substantial direct effects on one or more ...
Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care ...
The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) is a systematic method to evaluate and compare the understandability and actionability of patient education materials. The following are our ...
The matrix directly below indicates which scenarios are appropriate for use by: (a) staff role, and (b) specific tools for each TeamSTEPPS team skill. Use this matrix as a roadmap to identify which ...
Ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care requires understanding the needs of the populations served. The nation's health care data infrastructure does not provide the necessary ...