As the population of older adults continues to grow, there is an increasing need for healthcare solutions that can support healthy aging, improve quality of life, and address the unique challenges ...

The CAHPS Hospice Survey asks primary informal caregivers (i.e., family members or friends) of patients who died while receiving hospice care about experiences with hospice care. The purpose of the ...

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The Institute of Medicine defines health care quality as "the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent ...

Take part in a national study to evaluate the impact of resources intended to help prevent diagnostic safety events. Diagnostic safety events are common and pervasive across all healthcare settings, ...

In recent years, there has been growing interest in a special focus on quality measurement for child health programs. Increasingly, it has become clear that the issues for children are not identical ...

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Note: Resources on this page were used in testing the Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families. The materials were ...

AHRQ's database on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) was created under a project funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Trust Fund. The purpose of this project is to create easy to ...

This tool is intended to support sustainability efforts for your catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) prevention project team. This worksheet will help your team identify its current ...

Protecting skin and preventing infection are complex and multifaceted efforts. This toolkit highlights four key strategic areas to protect skin and prevent infection. The approach for tackling these ...

Background: The purpose of this tool is to determine if your facility has a process to screen patients for pressure ulcer risk. The tool is one of a series of Facility Assessment Checklists developed ...