Integrating Primary Care Practices and Community-based Resources to Manage Obesity Tool 7. Documenting the Conversation in Your Charts ...

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 ...

After the Institute of Medicine released its sentinel report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in conjunction with its Federal ...

One of the strongest determinants of safety culture is whether local and hospital leadership respond to staff patient safety concerns. Frontline providers understand patient safety risks in their ...

Outcomes are defined as the impact of a healthcare service or intervention, and can include events or results in: Patient health status or quality of life. Patient, provider, and population attitudes ...

Many organizations are interested in assessing and improving patient experience with behavioral health, mental health, and/or substance use disorder services. Three CAHPS products are available to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Find complete program information on the HCUP-US website. Overview of HCUP The AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of databases, software tools, and related products ...

In 2016, AHRQ awarded a contract to develop methods and estimate the incremental inpatient financial costs and additional inpatient mortality associated with 10 selected hospital-acquired conditions ...

Contents Introduction What is Primary Care? What Do We Know Now About High-Performing Primary Care? What is the Role of Patients and Families in Primary Care? What Does High-Quality, Comprehensive ...