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The AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI was developed and refined over a 3-year period through a national quality improvement collaborative designed to reduce CAUTIs and enhance LTC ...

After the Institute of Medicine released its sentinel report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in conjunction with its Federal ...

The Role of the Nurse Manager module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (or CUSP) Toolkit addresses the role of nursing leaders for your quality improvement initiative. This module ...

Many organizations are uncertain about how to proceed with designing a workable solution for medication reconciliation. This chapter provides helpful information and tools for designing or redesigning ...

Search or browse for answers to questions about the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Program, surveys, supplemental item sets, and the SOPS Databases. Send additional questions to ...

Ensure that unit teams and care providers are knowledgeable in the seven appropriate indications for urinary catheters and the four inappropriate indications outlined below. Educational tools are ...

Review the following list of meetings in which falls risk and prevention is potentially discussed by the interdisciplinary team. For every meeting that occurs at your facility, indicate the type of ...

Sponsored by the Public Health Service, the 2008 Update to the Clinical Practice Guideline presents evidenced-based guidelines for clinicians to use when treating their patients who use tobacco. The ...

A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it. Therefore, fall rates and fall prevention practices must be counted and tracked as one component of a ...

A minimum of 5 supervised successful procedures in both the chest and femoral sites is required (10 total). If a physician successfully performs 5 supervised lines in one site, he or she is ...

Once you have determined that you are ready for change, the Implementation Team and Unit-Based Teams should demonstrate a clear understanding of where they are headed in terms of implementing best ...