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Five Steps to Safer Health Care 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet AHRQ's Efforts to Prevent and Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections Blood Thinner Pills: Using Them Safely Check Your Medicines Watch: Navigating the Health Care Video Advice Columns from Dr. Clancy Staying Active and Healthy with Blood Thinners (17.6 MB) (Transcript) Preventing Avoidable Readmissions: Improving the Hospital Discharge Process Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital Your Guide to Preventing and Treating Blood Clots Your Medicine: Be Smart. Be Safe
Advancing Patient Safety: A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation AHRQ's Patient Safety Initiative: Building Foundations, Reducing Risk: Interim Report to the Senate To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System: Institute of Medicine report Guide to Patient and Family Engagement: Final Environmental Scan Report Healthcare-Associated Infections: Tools & Resources: AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2011 AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2010 AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2009 Eliminating CLABSI: Report on the National On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project Eliminating CLABSI: Second Report on the National On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project Ending Healthcare-Associated Infections Using a Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection: Final Contract Report Improving Patient Safety Through Simulation Research Improving Patient Safety Through Simulation Research: Funded Projects Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices: Evidence Report National Survey on Consumer Experiences With Patient Safety and Quality Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care: Institute of Medicine report on health care data standards Patient Safety and Health Information Technology E-newsletter Archives Patient Safety Research Highlights: Program Brief Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety: Institute of Medicine report Safe Practices for Better Healthcare: Summary: National Quality Forum Consensus Report Web Chat Transcript: Patient Safety Research Web M&M: Fact Sheet
Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? Medical Teamwork and Patient Safety: The Evidence-based Relation Strategies to Improve Communication Between Pharmacy Staff and Patients TeamSTEPPS™: National Implementation (Web Site) TeamSTEPPS™ Tools
The Hospital Built Environment: What Role Might Funders of Health Services Research Play? Promoting Safety and Quality Through Human Resource Practices Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety: Institute of Medicine report System Design: AHRQ Resources Transforming Hospitals: Designing for Safety and Quality DVD Available
10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals 30 Safe Practices for Better Health Care Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation Becoming a High Reliability Organization: Operational Advice for Hospital Leaders Closing the Quality Gap: Quality Improvement Strategies Closing the Quality Gap: Diabetes Care Strategies Closing the Quality Gap: Hypertension Care Strategies Consumer Financial Incentives: A Decision Guide for Purchasers Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council Emergency Department Tools and Resources Emergency Severity Index: A Triage Tool for Emergency Department Care, Version 4: Implementation Handbook, 2012 Edition Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: Evaluation of Strategies from the Urgent Matters Learning Network II, Executive Summary Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals Preventing Avoidable Readmissions: Improving the Hospital Discharge Process Mistake-Proofing the Design of Health Care Processes Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety (PIPS) Patient Safety Tools: Improving Safety at the Point of Care Patient Safety Improvement Corps: 2007-08 State Organizations DVD for Institutional Training Patient Safety Challenge Grants: Translating Research Into Practice Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality Purchaser-Provider Synergies Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs Risk-informed Intervention Development and Implementation of Safe Practices in Ambulatory Care System Design: AHRQ Resources Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital Toolkit for Redesign in Health Care
Patient Safety Organizations: Web Site Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005
Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program: Health IT Portfolio Funding Opportunities Active: Requests for Applications, Program Announcements, Contracts Archived: Grants and Contracts Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: Developing Criteria Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform: Putting the Patient First (Commentary) Medical Liability & Patient Safety Initiative
Surveys on Patient Safety Culture Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Hospital Comparative Database Submission Information 2012 Comparative Database Report 2011 Comparative Database Report 2010 Comparative Database Report 2009 Comparative Database Report 2008 Comparative Database Report 2007 Comparative Database Report Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2011 User Comparative Database Report Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety Culture—New!
AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals: Fact Sheet Central Line Insertion Care Team Checklist CUSP Toolkit Designing Consumer Reporting Systems for Patient Safety Events: Final Report Designing Consumer Reporting Systems for Patient Safety Events: Overview Pharmacy Health Literacy Center Automated Telephone Reminders How to Create a Pill Card Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities: Training Modules Improving Patient Safety Systems for Patients With Limited English Proficiency: A Guide for Hospitals—New! Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation Preventing Avoidable Readmissions: Improving the Hospital Discharge Process Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism: A Guide for Effective Quality Improvement Problems and Prevention: Chest Tube Insertion TeamSTEPPS™ Tools TeamSTEPPS® Enhancing Safety for Patients With Limited English Proficiency Module—New! Tools, Methods, and Techniques for Improving Patient Safety
AHRQ's Quality Challenge Summit (Video) Agenda for Research in Ambulatory Patient Safety: Conference Synthesis Making the Health Care System Safer: Second Annual Patient Safety Research Conference Making the Health Care System Safer: Third Annual Patient Safety Research Conference Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety (Technical Assistance) Triggers and Targeted Injury Detection Systems (TIDS): Expert Panel Meeting
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