Tools
Tools: 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.
Read MoreEducation – Clinical: Calculates stroke risk for patients with atrial fibrillation, possibly better than the CHADS₂ Score.
Read MoreTools: ManageAnticoag helps clinicians navigate periprocedural planning and bleed management scenarios for patients on oral anticoagulants (OAC).
Read MoreImplementing Improvements: Opportunities to Integrate Quality Improvement and Implementation Science
Guidelines/Clinical Documents: In hospitals, improvers and implementers use quality improvement science (QIS) and less frequently implementation research (IR) to improve health care and health outcomes. Narrowly defined quality improvement (QI) guided by QIS focuses on transforming…
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