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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.
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 ...
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]
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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 ...
Section 4: Ways to Approach the Quality Improvement Process
Download Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process (PDF, 457 KB). Health care delivery systems that are working to improve patient experience can face daunting challenges, reflecting the need to align changes in behavior and practices across multiple levels and areas of the organization.
Preventing Falls in Hospitals - Agency for Healthcare Research and ...
Provide fall prevention information (Tool 3J). Observations: Record vital signs and neurologic observations at least hourly for 4 hours and then review. Continue observations at least every 4 hours for 24 hours, then as required. Notify treating medical provider immediately if …
What Is Patient Experience? - Agency for Healthcare Research and ...
Patient Experience DefinedPatient experience encompasses the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system, including their care from health plans, and from doctors, nurses, and staff in hospitals, physician practices, and other healthcare facilities. As an integral component of healthcare quality, patient experience includes several aspects of …
Evidence-Based Practice - Agency for Healthcare Research and …
Topic: Evidence-Based Practice. A way of providing health care that is guided by a thoughtful integration of the best available scientific knowledge with clinical expertise. This approach allows the practitioner to critically assess research data, clinical guidelines, and other information resources in order to correctly identify the clinical ...
Overview and Examples of Medical Standing Orders
The resource provides examples of standing orders for different medical scenarios that detail how evidence-based recommendations can be integrated into the practice’s workflow, supporting Key Driver 1: Seek, select, and customize the best evidence for use by the practice. Institution of origin: University of California, San Francisco (UCSF ...