AHRQ Quality Indicators (AHRQ QIs) are standardized, evidence-based measures of healthcare quality that can be used to measure and track clinical performance and outcomes.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality of healthcare for all Americans. Providing high-quality care means providing safe, ...

Contents Slide 1. Cover Slide. Slide 2. Learning Objectives Slide 3. The Patient's Hospital Experience 1 Slide 4. Patient- and Family-Centered Care 3 Slide 5. What is Patient Family Engagement 1 Slide ...

Slide 1: An Introduction to Safe Transitions for Patients to New Appointments Ambulatory Care Facility Team Presentation Image: AHRQ Logo; the logo appears in the lower right corner of all subsequent ...

The Role of the Nurse Manager module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (or CUSP) Toolkit addresses the role of nursing leaders for your quality improvement initiative. This module ...

To develop search terms for cost and mortality outcomes, we focused search criteria on terms likely to produce articles on inpatient stays and methods that allow for calculating attributable or excess ...

Many organizations are interested in assessing and improving patient experience with behavioral health, mental health, and/or substance use disorder services. Three CAHPS products are available to ...

Your Health Coach has prepared this information packet for your family to help explain the medical needs of your newborn as you prepare to leave the hospital. A Health Coach helps families/caregivers ...

Exhibit B.1 provides the Interim 2015 data on HACs. The HACs that are the focus of the PfP initiative are shown, as well as the source of the data and the corresponding measures related to each HAC.

Summary The elevation of the head of bed (HOB) to a semirecumbent position (at least 30 degrees) is associated with a decreased incidence of aspiration and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The ...

For patients not willing to make a quit attempt now, clinicians should motivate the patient to consider quitting (go to Patients Not Ready To Make a Quit Attempt Now [The "5 R's"]). Because of the ...

Datasets and analytic tools that can power understanding of SDOH ...