Organizations for QI
Organizations for QI: A network of organizations committed to reversing trends in clinician burnout. Their three goals are to improve baseline understanding of challenges to clinician well-being, raise visibility of clinician stress and burnout, and elevate evidence-based multidisciplinary solutions that will improve patient care by caring for the caregiver.
Read MoreTools: The Toolkit for Using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Quality Indicators (QI Toolkit) is a free and easy-to-use resource for hospitals planning to use the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), including the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), to track and improve inpatient quality and patient safety. The QI Toolkit also may serve as a general guide to applying improvement methods in a hospital setting.
Read MoreEducation – Clinical: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s SHARE Approach is a five-step process for shared decision-making that includes exploring and comparing the benefits, harms, and risks of each option through meaningful dialogue about what matters most to the patient.
Read MoreEducation – Clinical: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety. This is an evidence-based set of teamwork tools, aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among healthcare teams, including patients and family caregivers. Program includes welcome guides, curriculum materials, a diagnosis improvement course, patient videos, measurement tools, and training simulation tools.
Read MoreOrganizations for QI: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s TalkingQuality offers guidance on producing comparative information on health care quality that’s understandable and useful to consumers.
Read MoreEducation – Clinical: Education, training, implementation tools, and research related to shared decision making from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Read MoreTools: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Quality improvement measurement tools and information, including AHRQ Quality Indicators Hospital Toolkit, ambulatory clinical performance measures, and Talking Quality.
Read MoreOrganizations for QI: The AHRQ-CMS Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) is a central component to the overall HHS strategy for implementing the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), to support State Medicaid/CHIP agencies in collecting and reporting on a core set of standardized child health quality measures (“Initial Core Set” now called the “Child Core Set”) in alignment with other quality measures collected by states, health plans, and providers.
Read MoreOrganizations for QI: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality PCOR compares the impact of two or more preventive, diagnostic, treatment, or health care delivery approaches on health outcomes, including those that are meaningful to patients. Congress instructed AHRQ to …
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