The AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Diagnostic Safety Supplemental Items for medical offices were designed to be used in conjunction with the core SOPS Medical Office Survey to help ...

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2002-2013. Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. For 2010 and 2013, data for children who spoke a ...

The change management process must be carefully and strategically organized to attain widespread acceptance. To achieve an environment truly committed to patient safety, a successful TeamSTEPPS ...

The purpose of the Best Practices in Public Reporting series is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performance information clear, meaningful, and usable ...

AHRQ launched the development of the CAHPS Health Plan Survey in 1995 and released the first version for public use in 1997. Since that time, the CAHPS team has clarified and updated the survey ...

This toolkit introduces the ABCS of heart health—aspirin use by high-risk individuals, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, and smoking cessation—and provides checklists, action plans, and ...

Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, Virginia, uses and contributes to the AHRQ Healthcare Simulation Dictionary, which international simulation experts developed to standardize the ...