This document provides preliminary estimates for 2014 on hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), indicating a 17 percent decline, from 145 to 121 HACs per 1,000 discharges, from 2010 to 2014. A ...

Student Workbook This student workbook was prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality by RAND Corporation under contract 290-06-00017-7. It is one component of a four-part set of ...

Slide 1: Patient and Family Engagement in the Surgical Environment Module Say: The purpose of the Patient and Family Engagement in the Ambulatory Surgical Environment module is to augment the existing ...

Bringing together a wide range of partners to support primary care quality improvement (QI) can help increase capacity and expertise, reduce duplicative efforts, reach a broader and more diverse set ...

Purpose of the tool: This tool describes the key perinatal safety elements with examples for the safe administration of magnesium sulfate during labor. The key elements are presented within the ...

Care coordination in the primary care practice involves deliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with a patient's care to achieve ...

5.C. Evaluate the Process of Care Delivery If it is not clear why you are doing well on some CAHPS survey measures and not so well on others, you may need more detailed information to help you ...

Module Aim The aim of Module 1 is to introduce the Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Toolkit training. Module Goals The goals of this introductory module are to identify the overall objectives ...

A study published in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and funded and carried out by Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows ...

Funding will help implement and evaluate models for delivering comprehensive, coordinated, person-centered care to people with Long COVID. Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

A new paper addresses the use of algorithms in healthcare, their impact on racial/ethnic disparities in care, and approaches to identify and mitigate biases. A paper published today in JAMA Network ...

A warm handoff is a transfer of care between two members of the health care team, where the handoff occurs in front of the patient and family. This transparent handoff of care allows patients and ...