AHRQ Views: Timely New Resources To Help Improve Patient Safety

 Timely New Resources To Help Improve Patient Safety

A pair of AHRQ Views blog posts published this week during Patient Safety Awareness Week highlighted important new AHRQ resources developed to help healthcare professionals dedicated to keeping patients free from harm. Jeffrey Brady, M.D., M.P.H., director of AHRQ’s Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, summarized the benefits of the new Making Healthcare Safer III report, which identifies 47 patient safety practices that include hygiene and disinfection interventions for reducing healthcare-associated infections, practices  to prevent medication errors and other safety strategies. Dr. Brady also co-authored a blog post with David Meyers, M.D., AHRQ’s deputy director, about AHRQ’s new Potentially Preventable Readmissions: Conceptual Framework to Rethink the Role of Primary Care. That publication drew on the expertise of more than 130 staff in nine primary care clinic sites, as well as 14 community agencies to develop a new framework to prevent readmissions. Access the blog posts on patient safety practices and primary care’s role in reducing readmissions.