AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention

AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention is designed to improve long-term care by turning daily documentation into useful information that enhances clinical care planning.

AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention provides a strategy for preventing adverse events in nursing homes. On-Time uses electronic medical records to develop weekly reports that identify residents at risk of common adverse events in nursing homes to help clinical staff intervene early. On-Time uses a facilitator to help the nursing home's change team integrate these reports into clinical decisionmaking to improve care planning. On-Time also provides implementation tools to help the team use the reports on a weekly basis.

AHRQ is developing four sets of reports and materials for the following adverse events:

Pressure ulcer prevention.
Pressure ulcers with delayed healing.
Falls prevention.
Avoidable hospitalizations.

For each adverse event the Web site provides a description of the reports and suggested meetings and huddles where the reports may be used, the functional specifications for programming the reports, description of implementation tools, and a 2-day training curriculum for facilitators.

Background

Overview of On-Time.

Adverse Events

Pressure Ulcer Prevention.

Coming Soon

Pressure Ulcer Healing.
Falls Prevention.
Prevention of Avoidable Hospitalization and Emergency Department Visits.

More Information

If you are interested in learning more about On-Time and would like to talk with someone, please email your contact information, including the best time to be reached by phone. Send email to: On-Time@ahrq.hhs.gov and type "request followup" in the subject line.

Page last reviewed December 2014

Internet Citation: AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention. December 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/index.html