Tools
Education – Patients/Caregiver: A comprehensive guide for AFib providers to use in conversations with patients and caregivers. The AFib Clinic Script contains helpful graphics, charts, and explanations to clarify what AFib is, how it progresses, and how it’s treated.
Read MoreWorkflows: A visual workflow to guide AF clinics in same day CT/transesophageal cardiogram, and CT/direct current cardioversion procedures.
Read MoreReferral Pathways: OhioHealth’s referral pathways for treating acute vs. non-acute AFib patients.
Read MoreAF Agile Pathway – Emergency Department
Read MoreTools: The Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (HDSP) Program Evaluation Guides are a series of evaluation technical assistance tools developed by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, to assist in the evaluation of heart disease and stroke prevention activities within states.
The guides are intended to offer guidance, consistent definition of terms, and aid skill building on a wide range of general evaluation topics and selected specific topics. They were developed with the assumption that state health departments have varied experience with program evaluation and a range of resources allocated to program evaluation. In any case, these guides clarify approaches to and methods for evaluation, provide examples specific to the scope and purpose of the state HDSP programs, and recommend resources for additional reading. Some guides will be more applicable to evaluating capacity building activity and others more focused on interventions. Although examples provided in the guides are specific to HDSP programs, the information might also prove valuable to other state health department programs, especially
chronic disease programs.
Business Plans: This template helps health care leaders and staff arrange their thoughts and document important elements of their organization’s quality improvement initiative; Who should use this: Office managers, directors of nursing, medical directors and other staff leading a quality improvement initiative; How to use this tool: Use the suggested elements on the left to help build your business case on the right.
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 MoreEducation – Clinical: Education, training, implementation tools, and research related to shared decision making from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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