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How-to Guide: Prevent Adverse Drug Events (Medication Reconciliation)
This How-to Guide describes key evidence-based care components to prevent adverse drug events (ADEs).
Measuring Hand Hygiene Adherence: Overcoming the Challenges
Resources related to hand hygiene for health care settings.
Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process: A Toolkit for Rapid-Cycle Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
The tools in this step-by-step guide can increase the reliability of the testing process in your office by helping you examine how tests are managed.
AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit can help primary care practices reduce the complexity of health care, increase patient understanding of health information, and enhance support for patients of all health literacy levels.
Human Factors Matrix
A matrix to help healthcare professionals apply human factors principles during root cause analysis to identify strong strategies to improve patient safety.
Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety
To promote stronger engagement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed a guide to help patients, families, and health professionals work together as partners to promote improvements in care.
Be Antibiotics Aware
Be Antibiotics Aware is a national effort to help fight antibiotic resistance and improve antibiotic prescribing and use.
Environmental Hygiene: Best Practices to Use When Cleaning and Disinfecting Patient Rooms
This 10-minute video was developed to highlight key environmental cleaning best practices that should be used in all healthcare settings.
Environmental Cleaning Basics for Perioperative Areas: Part 2
This 7-minute training video is designed for perioperative staff and environmental services staff working in the perioperative area and can help these healthcare team members provide a clean and safe environment for their patients.
Environmental Cleaning Basics for Perioperative Areas: Part 1
This 11-minute video is designed for perioperative staff and environmental services staff working in the perioperative area and can help these healthcare team members provide a clean and safe environment for their patients.
Dr. Mike Evans Video: An Illustrated Look at Quality Improvement in Health Care
IHI collaborated with Dr. Mike Evans, Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, to create a dynamic, animated whiteboard video that introduces the concepts of quality improvement in health care.
Dialysis Safety Resource Center
To help prevent infections in dialysis patients and increase the use of proven practices that cut infection rates in half, the Making Dialysis Safer for Patients Coalition has created the posters, checklists and fact sheets for use in provider’s offices, dialysis clinics, training sessions, and work areas.
CUSP Toolkit
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is a method that can help clinical teams make care safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical best practices, and the science of safety.
Clostridium Difficile Training for Environmental Cleaning Staff
This 14-minute video from Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) and Oregon Health Authority (OHA) provides basic infection prevention and control training for staff who clean and disinfect the environment and equipment for patients and/or residents who have Clostridium difficile infections.
AHRQ’s Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
This toolkit assists hospital staff and leadership in developing an effective antimicrobial stewardship program with the potential to reduce C. difficile.
Best Practices for Blood Glucose Monitoring
This 10-minute video from Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) and the Oregon Healthcare-Associated Infection Program at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) provides best practices that can be implemented in any healthcare setting to prevent infection during blood glucose monitoring and insulin administration.
Antibiotic Stewardship Driver Diagram and Change Package
A framework to reduce inappropriate antibiotic utilization in hospitals, prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
AHRQ Safety Program for End-Stage Renal Disease Facilities Toolkit
The ESRD Toolkit was created to help end-stage renal disease clinics prevent healthcare-associated infections in dialysis patients.
ThinkReliability
ThinkReliability provides consultation and instruction through Cause Mapping workshops focused on how to thoroughly investigate and prevent everything from day-to-day recurring problems to catastrophic events.
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