Clinical Guidelines and Recommendations | Agency for Healthcare ...
WEBBetween 1992 and 1996, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) sponsored development of a series of 19 clinical practice guidelines. These guideline products are no longer viewed as guidance for current medical practice, and are provided for archival purposes only. Visit the Clinical ...
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WEBAbout our work at AHRQ. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
Types of Health Care Quality Measures
WEBStructural measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity, systems, and processes to provide high-quality care. For example: Whether the health care organization uses electronic medical records or medication order entry systems. The number or proportion of board-certified physicians. The ratio of providers to patients.
Patient Safety and Quality Measures - Agency for Healthcare …
WEBAHRQ QI v2023 software will be released on August 14, 2023. Both SAS QI and WinQI v2023 software will be available for download from the AHRQ QI site.A new beta version of the software, v2023 CloudQI PSI Beta, will also be available.
Resources and Tools To Improve Discharge and Transitions of …
WEBThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers information and tools for clinicians and patients to make the hospital discharge process safer and to prevent avoidable readmissions. This page features links to AHRQ's resources for preventing avoidable readmissions or trips to the emergency room.
Quality Improvement (QI) Toolkit with Templates, Instructions, and ...
WEBThis toolkit consists of 10 tools and templates—with instructions and examples—for primary care practices to use to improve quality. Tools include: cause and effect diagram, failure modes and effects analysis, histogram, Pareto chart, and scatter diagram.
Defining the PCMH | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
WEBThe medical home model holds promise as a way to improve health care in America by transforming how primary care is organized and delivered. Building on the work of a large and growing community, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) defines a medical home not simply as a place but as a model of the organization of primary care that delivers the core functions of primary health ...
Evidence-Based Practice - Agency for Healthcare Research and …
WEBTopic: Evidence-Based Practice. A way of providing health care that is guided by a thoughtful integration of the best available scientific knowledge with clinical expertise. This approach allows the practitioner to critically assess research data, clinical guidelines, and other information resources in order to correctly identify the clinical ...
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems …
WEBThe CAHPS program conducts research to support the development and use of patient experience surveys in various health care settings. Surveys identify ways to improve care.
Preventing Falls in Hospitals - Agency for Healthcare Research and ...
WEBEach year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital. A fall may result in fractures, lacerations, or internal bleeding, leading to increased health care utilization. Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented. Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and optimizing the hospital's physical ...