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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s publications offer practical information to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.
Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement
This report by the Institute of Medicne identifies standardized categories for the variables of race, ethnicity, and language that can be used to facilitate the sharing, compilation, and comparison of quality data stratified by the standard categories.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 10-0058-EF
10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals
Medical errors may occur in different healthcare settings, and those that happen in hospitals can have serious consequences. AHRQ, which has sponsored hundreds of patient safety research and implementation projects, offers these 10 evidence-based tips to prevent adverse events from occurring in your hospital.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 10-M008
Advancing Patient Safety: A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation
This document highlights some of AHRQ’s contributions in advancing patient safety from 1999 to 2009.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 09(10)-0084
Disaster Alternate Care Facilities: Report and Interactive Tools
A public health emergency can strain the capacity of hospitals and other traditional venues for medical services. In such emergencies, it may be necessary to select alternate facilities for providing medical care. The report beginning below, and the related interactive computer tools, will help institutions and communities select alternate care facilities and determine which patients to send to them. The two new interactive tools are Disaster Alternate Care Facility Selection Tool and an ancillary tool, Alternate Care Facility Patient Selection Tool
Publication Date: Publication Number: 09-0062
Your Guide to Preventing and Treating Blood Clots
This guide describes ways to prevent and treat blood clots; symptoms; and medication side effects as well as when to go to the emergency room.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 09Â-0067Â-C
Support and Advice From Your Clinician
Quitting takes hard work and a lot of effort, but the benefits are explained below, as are the key steps to quitting successfully.
All information is based on scientific research about what will give you the best chances of quitting.
Publication Date: Publication Number: AHRQ0809-0092-A
You Can Quit Smoking
Support and advice from a prenatal care provider
Publication Date: Publication Number: AHRQ0809-0091-A
Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches
Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches represents years of study by AHRQ-funded patient safety researchers and others. It includes articles on reporting systems, risk assessment, safety culture, medical simulation, patient safety tools and practices, health information technology, medication safety, and other topics related to improving patient safety.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 08-0034-1
Hispanic Diabetes Disparities Learning Network in Community Health Centers
Hispanics have a higher prevalence of diabetes and are disproportionately burdened with the complications and disability from diabetes. This report describes the development of a learning network project that included interventions and needs assessments at community health centers to help reduce the diabetes disparity in the Hispanic population.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 08-0044-EF
How to Create a Pill Card
This guide helps users create an easy-to-use "pill card" for patients, parents, or anyone who has a hard time keeping track of their medicines. Step-by-step instructions, sample clip art, and suggestions for design and use will help to customize a reminder card.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 08-M016