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About our work at AHRQ. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
Six Domains of Healthcare Quality - Agency for Healthcare …
Six Domains of Healthcare Quality. A handful of analytic frameworks for quality assessment have guided measure development initiatives in the public and private sectors. One of the most influential is the framework put forth by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which includes the following six aims for the healthcare system. [1]
Preventing Falls in Hospitals - Agency for Healthcare Research and ...
Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital. A fall may result in fractures, lacerations, or internal bleeding, leading to increased health care utilization. Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented. Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and optimizing the hospital's physical ...
Key elements of IDEAL Discharge Planning. Include the patient and family as full partners in the discharge planning process. Educate the patient and family in plain language about the patient’s condition, the discharge process, and next steps throughout the hospital stay. Assess how well doctors and nurses explain the diagnosis, condition ...
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Defining the PCMH | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The medical home encompasses five functions and attributes: 1. Comprehensive Care. The primary care medical home is accountable for meeting the large majority of each patient’s physical and mental health care needs, including prevention and wellness, acute care, and chronic care. Providing comprehensive care requires a team of care providers.
Day 3: Continuing Buprenorphine. Mark the checkbox ( ) next to each action you take. How much buprenorphine you take on Day 3 depends on how you felt on Day 2. Use the chart on page 10 as a guide. If you felt okay on Day 2: Take the same amount of medication at the same time on Day 3 as you did on Day 2.
Types of Health Care Quality Measures
Structural measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity, systems, and processes to provide high-quality care. For example: Whether the health care organization uses electronic medical records or medication order entry systems. The number or proportion of board-certified physicians. The ratio of providers to patients.
CAHPS Patient Experience Surveys and Guidance
CAHPS surveys ask patients to report on their experiences with a range of healthcare services at multiple levels of the delivery system. Some CAHPS surveys ask about patients' experiences with healthcare providers, such as doctors, clinics, and hospice teams, or with care for specific health conditions. Other surveys ask enrollees about their ...
Strategy 3: Nurse Bedside Shift Report - Agency for Healthcare …
Nurse shift changes require the successful transfer of information between nurses to prevent adverse events and medical errors. Patients and families can play a role to make sure these transitions in care are safe and effective. Strategy 3: Nurse Bedside Shift Report helps ensure the safe handoff of care between nurses by involving the patient and family.