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Education – 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.
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 MoreTools: 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.
Read MoreTools: 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.
Read MoreTools: How to Improve: Model for Improvement (Associates in Process Improvement); learn about the model and testing changes on a small scale using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA cycles). Covers how to form your team, set aims, establish measures, implement change, and more.
Read MoreGuidelines/Clinical Documents: AHA’s Get With The Guidelines® – AFIB Registry Tool
Read MoreTools: Use the updated AnticoagEvaluator to make informed decisions on initiation of antithrombotic therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who do not have moderate to severe mitral stenosis or a mechanical heart valve. App updates include expanded advice from the 2019 Focused Update to the 2014 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients with AF.
Read MoreShared Decision-Making: Video demonstrations to support in-person conversations between clinicians and their AFib patients. Includes explanation of normal rhythm vs. AFib, stroke risk, blood thinners, and the WATCHMAN device.
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