Many organizations are uncertain about how to proceed with designing a workable solution for medication reconciliation. This chapter provides helpful information and tools for designing or redesigning ...

Patient Safety Culture DefinedPatient safety culture is the extent to which an organization's culture supports and promotes patient safety. It refers to the values, beliefs, and norms that are shared ...

R. Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A. What does healthcare in the United States look like? The answer, of course, is complicated. It depends on one's perspective. But regardless of how one attempts to address ...

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.

Tools To Help Healthcare Organizations Address SDOH AHRQ is actively engaged in assisting health systems and clinicians to improve healthcare through a better understanding of SDOH in communities and ...

Documenting and Tracking Weight Management Discussions—How to Capture Brief Counseling and Referral in Your Chart Notes This worksheet is designed to help your clinic document brief counseling and ...

AHRQ Views AHRQ Views blog posts offer insights into current healthcare issues and describe how AHRQ is working to make healthcare safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable.

The Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients in Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings (PDF, 1.36 MB) includes a: Toolkit guide, called Guide for Safe Patient Transitions to New Appointments, with in ...

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 ...

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), announced nine grant awards of $1 million each for up to 5 years to support ...

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their healthcare, it can lead to measurable improvements in safety and quality. To promote stronger engagement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and ...