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About 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.
Section 4: Ways to Approach the Quality Improvement Process
Download Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process (PDF, 457 KB). Health care delivery systems that are working to improve patient experience can face daunting challenges, reflecting the need to align changes in behavior and practices across multiple levels and areas of the organization.
Key elements of IDEAL Discharge Planning. Include the patient and family as full partners in the discharge planning process. Educate the patient and family in plain language about the patient’s condition, the discharge process, and next steps throughout the hospital stay. Assess how well doctors and nurses explain the diagnosis, condition ...
Defining the PCMH | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The medical home encompasses five functions and attributes: 1. Comprehensive Care. The primary care medical home is accountable for meeting the large majority of each patient’s physical and mental health care needs, including prevention and wellness, acute care, and chronic care. Providing comprehensive care requires a team of care providers.
Six Domains of Healthcare Quality - Agency for Healthcare …
Six Domains of Healthcare Quality. A handful of analytic frameworks for quality assessment have guided measure development initiatives in the public and private sectors. One of the most influential is the framework put forth by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which includes the following six aims for the healthcare system. [1]
Preventing Falls in Hospitals - Agency for Healthcare Research and ...
Each 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 ...
Suggested citation: McHugh, M., Van Dyke, K., McClelland M., Moss D. Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals. (Prepared by the Health Research & Educational Trust, an affiliate of the American Hospital Association, under contract 290-200-600022, Task Order No. 6). AHRQ Publication No. 11(12)-0094.
In this case, conducting a card (or survey) study might help to understand your care management needs. Step 1: Pick out a typical day or half day in your practice. Step 2: Give a stack of surveys to each clinician in the practice (physician or advanced practice provider) and instruct them on how to use the surveys.
Tool: SBAR | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. SBAR, which stands for Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (or Request), is a structured communication framework that can help teams share information about the condition of a patient or team member or about another issue your team needs to address.
Fall TIPS: A Patient-Centered Fall Prevention Toolkit
Fall TIPS is a nurse-led, evidence-based fall prevention intervention that uses bedside tools to communicate patient-specific risk factors for falls and uses a tailored prevention plan. The toolkit provides care team members with the information they need to routinely engage in the fall-prevention process.