As we celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week 2024, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) also marks its 35th anniversary. This milestone, under the banner "Today's Research, ...

Each year, Federal agencies must develop and present to Congress their budget requests for the coming fiscal year. All requests are in the President's budget, which is presented to Congress. At the ...

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 ...

Explore AHRQ's Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) surveys and supplemental items designed to capture provider and staff perceptions of patient safety culture in their organization.

Latest available findings on quality of and access to healthcare ...

Note: Resources on this page were used in testing the Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families. The materials were ...

Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions (PDF, 11.1 MB) ...

The 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.

The Safe Medication Administration bundle provides information on high-alert medications commonly used in labor and delivery (L&D) units, and discusses the importance of implementing safeguards for ...

This module is the first of two parts discussing briefings and debriefings. Teamwork and culture improvement are a big part of this project. Evidence supports that addressing cultural issues in ...

Resource: Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit This toolkit consists of 10 tools and templates—with instructions and examples—for primary care practices to use for quality improvement (QI) projects.

Review the following list of meetings in which falls risk and prevention is potentially discussed by the interdisciplinary team. For every meeting that occurs at your facility, indicate the type of ...