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TeamSTEPPS
AHRQ’s TeamSTEPPS is a teamwork system designed for health care professionals. It has a three-phased process aimed at creating and sustaining a culture of safety and provides higher quality, safer patient care.
Video: 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.
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.
Video: Infection Control for Healthcare Food Service
This 11-minute video covers basic practices to prevent the spread of foodborne illnesses, including proper personal hygiene and how to store, prepare, and serve food without cross-contamination.
Video: Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection (Dialysis)
This 15-minute video covers environmental cleaning and disinfection principles for cleaning dialysis stations between patient treatments and at the end of each treatment day.
Measuring Hand Hygiene Adherence: Overcoming the Challenges
Resources related to hand hygiene for health care settings.
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.
Video: An Illustrated Look at Quality Improvement in Health Care with Dr. Mike Evans
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.
Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Infection Prevention and Control Toolkit
This toolkit was developed by OPSC to help Oregon’s ASCs implement infection prevention quality improvement projects, reduce infection risks, and better protect patients.
Video: 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.
Always Use Teach-Back! Training Toolkit
The Always Use Teach Back! tools can be used to confirm patient understanding of care instructions by asking patients to repeat the instructions using their own words.
Patient Safety Network (PSNet)
AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network features a collection of the latest news and resources on patient safety, innovations and toolkits, opportunities for free CME and trainings.
Video: 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.
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.
Video: 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.
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.
Video: 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.
Be Antibiotics Aware
Be Antibiotics Aware is a national effort to help fight antibiotic resistance and improve antibiotic prescribing and use.
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).
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.