viernes, 30 de junio de 2023

Measurement and Monitoring of Safety Framework (MMSF): learning from its implementation in Canada.

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/measurement-and-monitoring-safety-framework-mmsf-learning-its-implementation-canada

Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery

Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: This ongoing implementation project aims to help hospitals adopt the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocol using the CUSP method.

How To Create a My Medicines List

How To Create a My Medicines List: A My Medicines List can remind you when, how, and how much medicine to take. Here are step-by-step instructions to create a My Medicines List for yourself, a family member, a friend, or anyone you take care of.

Explicit and Standardized Prescription Medicine Instructions

Explicit and Standardized Prescription Medicine Instructions: Explicit, standardized instructions improve patients’ understanding, and possibly reduce errors while improving adherence. These tested instructions for pills follow the Universal Medication Schedule (UMS), which simplifies complex medicine regimens by using standard time periods for administration (morning, noon, evening, and bedtime). These instructions have also been translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy Center

AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy Center: This site provides pharmacists with recently released health literacy tools and other resources from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research

Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research: The purpose of this Technical Brief was to identify: 1) frameworks that have been developed or applied to examine the effects of organizational characteristics on the delivery of and outcomes associated with cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment, and compare these frameworks to the Integrated Framework; 2) approaches used to improve understanding of how organizational context and process characteristics are described, measured, and analyzed in the context of cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment; 3) healthcare organizational context and process characteristics that have been examined in studies assessing the delivery of cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment; and 4) evidence gaps and future research needs.

Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery

Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: This ongoing implementation project aims to help hospitals adopt the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocol using the CUSP method.

Systematic Review – ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents

Systematic Review – ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents: This draft systematic review assessed evidence on the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents to inform a planned update of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines.

Cervical Degenerative Disease Treatment: A Systematic Review

Cervical Degenerative Disease Treatment: A Systematic Review: This systematic review identifies and synthesizes research on treatments for cervical degenerative disc disease (CDD) in patients with or without cervical radiculopathy or myelopathy. This topic was nominated by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), which published prior guidelines on the management of cervical degenerative disease in 2009.

Comparative Health System Performance Initiative

Comparative Health System Performance Initiative: AHRQ created the Comparative Health System Performance Initiative to study how health care delivery systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care.

Compendium of U.S. Health Systems

Compendium of U.S. Health Systems: The inaugural edition of the Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, is composed of 626 U.S. health systems, defined in this analysis to include at least one hospital and at least one group of physicians providing comprehensive care, and who are connected with each other and with the hospital through common ownership or joint management. The 2018 Compendium has 637 health systems.

Data Infographics

Data Infographics: AHRQ's data infographics provide visual snapshots of health care trend data. These infographics highlight findings from the Agency’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), and other AHRQ data sources. AHRQ’s infographics are available free of charge for posting on web sites, in newsletters, and on other platforms.

Management of Postpartum Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

Management of Postpartum Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are increasingly common and have important implications for maternal health, healthcare utilization, and health disparities. There is limited evidence to support best management of postpartum individuals with HDP, including home blood pressure (BP) monitoring (HBPM) and choice of antihypertensive agents.

AHRQ Announces New Challenge Competition to Highlight the Impact of its Patient Safety Tools

AHRQ Announces New Challenge Competition to Highlight the Impact of its Patient Safety Tools: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today announced a new Challenge competition that is intended to demonstrate how the use of AHRQ’s patient safety tools has resulted in safer healthcare. Up to 10 winners who describe how the use of patient safety resources resulted in measurable improvement will receive $10,000 each.

Obtaining and Using Data in Practice: A Handbook for Health IT Advisors and Practice Facilitators

Obtaining and Using Data in Practice: A Handbook for Health IT Advisors and Practice Facilitators: This handbook provides in-depth information and techniques to help primary care practices use electronic health records and other health IT for quality improvement efforts. The handbook covers the following topics: clinical decision support, patient portals and other technologies, using patient-generated data, clinical quality measures, and risk stratification in primary care. The handbook also features helpful tips, examples, and use cases to support the use of health IT for QI efforts.