AHRQ Patient Safety Network: AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network



AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2014.

This toolkit will guide hospitals in the use of Patient Safety Indicators and Inpatient Quality Indicators to augment safety. It has been updated in response to insights from the field to include additional best practices. The toolkit is structured around enhancing multidisciplinary teamwork by completing a series of steps such as assessing the organizational readiness for a change initiative, implementing improvements, and determining the return on the investment of the programs.

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