Tools & best practices for creating a culture of safer care
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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.
Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections
These guidelines have been developed for healthcare personnel who insert intravascular catheters and for persons responsible for surveillance and control of infections in hospital, outpatient, and home healthcare settings.
Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities
This guideline presents evidence-based recommendations on the preferred methods for cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of patient-care medical devices and for cleaning and disinfecting the healthcare environment.
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.
Free from Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years After To Err Is Human
The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) convened an expert panel in February 2015 to assess the state of the patient safety field and set the stage for the next 15 years of work. The resulting report produced eight recommendations.
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.
Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report
This final report summarizes the progress that was made during the On the CUSP: Stop BSI project, a unique partnership with the Health Research & Educational Trust, the Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group, and the Michigan Health & Hospital Association's Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality.
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.
Communication and Resolution Programs
Despite the best intentions, healthcare does not always go as planned, which can result in harm to patients. CRPs offer healthcare organizations a more compassionate, patient-centered response that ultimately improves safety for patients in the future.
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.
Diseases and Organisms in Healthcare Settings
Modern healthcare employs many types of invasive devices and procedures to treat patients and to help them recover. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works to monitor and prevent these different types of diseases and infections because they are an important threat to patient safety.
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.
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