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AHRQ Patient Safety Network
Organizations for QI: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Network is a national Web-based resource featuring the latest news and essential resources on patient safety. Supported by an extensive system for organizing the site’s patient safety information into categories and subcategories (i.e., a patient safety taxonomy) and robust Web architecture, AHRQ’s PSNet provides powerful searching and browsing capability, as well as the ability for diverse users to customize the site around their interests (My PSNet). AHRQ’s PSNet also includes WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web) content, including Cases and Commentaries as well as Perspectives on Safety.
AHRQ Engaging Patients and Families
Organizations for QI: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers free tools to help prioritize concerns and maximize interactions between providers, patients, and families. Whether you see patients at a hospital, primary care office, or other setting, time is often limited and patients and family members who have prioritized their questions or concerns will experience the most meaningful, efficient visits. To help you and your patients get the most out of your time together, AHRQ offers these free resources that you can use with your team and share with your patients.
AHRQ Making Healthcare Safer Reports
Best Practices: Reports to help inform best practices in a variety of settings across the health care system. AHRQ consolidates information for healthcare providers, health system administrators, researchers, and government agencies to improve patient safety.
AHRQ Evidence-based Centers Program
Organizations for QI: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) in 1997 to conduct evidence reports for the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program. In December 2019, the latest 5-year contracts were awarded to 9 EPCs. The EPCs are housed at universities, medical centers, and research institutions in the United States. The EPCs produce evidence reports on medications, devices, and other health care services for the EHC Program with the goal of helping consumers, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed and evidence-based health care decisions.
AHRQ Effective Health Care Program
Organizations for QI: The Effective Health Care (EHC) Program improves the quality of healthcare by providing the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and healthcare services and by helping healthcare professionals, patients, policymakers, and healthcare systems make informed healthcare decisions. The EHC Program achieves this goal by partnering with research centers, academic institutions, health professional societies, consumer organizations, and other stakeholders to conduct research, evidence synthesis, and dissemination and implementation of research findings.
AHRQuality Indicators
Tools: The Quality Indicators (QIs) are measures of health care quality that use readily available hospital inpatient administrative data. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality develops Quality Indicators to provide health care decisionmakers with tools to assess their data.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Search by Topic
Organizations for QI: Search by topics like patient safety, surgical site infection, joy in work, improvement capability, etc.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Case Studies
Organizations for QI: Case studies related to improving health care.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Audio and Video
Organizations for QI: Science of Improvement Whiteboard videos, Health Equity videos, IHI YouTube Channel.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Tools
Tools: IHI developed and adapted tools to help organizations accelerate improvement, as well as successful protocols, order sets, and guidelines developed by organizations and shared with IHI. Examples include a Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit, Quality Improvement Team Member Matrix Worksheet, QI Project Measures Worksheet, and Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit.