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.

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 ...

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 system was named after the physician and researcher who formulated it. Structural Measures Structural measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity, systems, and processes to ...

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 …

Prevent Device/Procedure Infections. Central line-associated bloodstream infections, or CLABSIs, are associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and increased length and cost of hospital stay.

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AHRQ’s SHARE Approach is a clinician-led shared decision-making model with five essential elements for meaningful dialogue with patients exploring benefits, harms, and risks of options and what matters most to them. AHRQ offers a free workshop curriculum to train clinicians in skills and techniques to work with patients to make the best possible healthcare decisions.

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. The toolkit supports Key Driver 2: Implement a data-driven quality improvement process to integrate evidence into practice procedures.