This resource, Guidelines and Measures, was set up by AHRQ to provide users a place to find information about its legacy guidelines and measures clearinghouses, National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) ...

Slide 1: AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery—Implementation Implementing Your Surgical Site Infection Prevention Bundle Slide 2: Learning Objectives After this session, you will be able to– Develop an ...

AHRQ provides several resources to address sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response to infection that results in tissue damage and organ failure that can lead to death. It is one of the most expensive ...

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It’s important to prioritize high-impact prevention strategies, as outlined in the Toolkit. Follow these steps to prioritize opportunities for improvement. Firm up your Implementation Team Leader, ...

Five (or Six) A's and Motivational Interviewing for Health Behavior Change Counseling The Five (or Six) A's. The Five A's are: A sk, A dvise, A ssess, A ssist, and A rrange. The 5 A's have been linked ...

To develop search terms for cost and mortality outcomes, we focused search criteria on terms likely to produce articles on inpatient stays and methods that allow for calculating attributable or excess ...

[Date} [Salutations] RE: Fall Management Program Dear I am writing to introduce you to a new quality improvement initiative that our nursing facility will be implementing over the next several months.

Slide 1 Navigating Hierarchy in the Clinical Setting: Working and Communicating with Others Susan M. Hohenhaus, LPD, RN, CEN, FAEN Executive Director Emergency Nurses Association Slide 2 Learning ...

Measures used to assess and compare the quality of health care organizations are classified as either a structure, process, or outcome measure. Known as the Donabedian model, this classification ...

Request for ApplicationsRequests for Applications (RFAs) are issued to invite grant applications in a well-defined scientific area to stimulate activity in AHRQ programmatic research priority areas. A ...

AHRQ Quality Indicators (AHRQ QIs) are standardized, evidence-based measures of healthcare quality that can be used to measure and track clinical performance and outcomes.