Prevent Device/Procedure Infections. Central line-associated bloodstream infections, or CLABSIs, are associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and increased length and cost of hospital stay.

AHRQ’s SHARE Approach is a clinician-led shared decision-making model with five essential elements for meaningful dialogue with patients exploring benefits, harms, and risks of options and what matters most to them. AHRQ offers a free workshop curriculum to train clinicians in skills and techniques to work with patients to make the best possible healthcare decisions.

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 …

.dropcap { float: left; font-size: 35px; line-height: 15px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 3px; } I-PASS has become the preferred handoff tool for patient transitions in many organizations. It is an example of an evidence-based option for conducting a structured handoff. Your facility should determine a standard protocol for delivering handoffs and make it …

The medical home model holds promise as a way to improve health care in America by transforming how primary care is organized and delivered. Building on the work of a large and growing community, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) defines a medical home not simply as a place but as a model of the organization of primary care that delivers the core functions of primary health ...

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4 . Your Pain and Mood. To help your care team better manage your transition to buprenorphine, please answer the following questions about both your pain and mood before making any changes.

SBAR, which stands for Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (or Request), is a structured communication framework that can help teams share information about the condition of a patient or team member or about another issue your team needs to address. In phrasing a conversation with another team member, consider the following:

Resource: Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit This toolkit consists of 10 tools and templates—with instructions and examples—for primary care practices to use for quality improvement (QI) projects. The toolkit supports Key Driver 2: Implement a data-driven quality improvement process to integrate evidence into practice procedures.

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