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Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, …

(4 days ago) WEBHealthcare quality and safety clearly have deep historical antecedents, but it is over the last three decades that the major developments in research, practice and policy have been made. The medical profession has …

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.12391

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Ensuring Patient and Workforce Safety Culture in Healthcare

(1 days ago) WEBIntroduction. In 2020, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) unveiled the National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety. 1 Within this framework, four pillars were identified as critical to fostering a safer health care environment: Culture, Leadership and Governance; Patient …

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/ensuring-patient-and-workforce-safety-culture-healthcare

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Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Agency for Healthcare …

(6 days ago) WEBAs the lead federal agency for advancing patient safety, AHRQ invests in research and implementation projects that bridge the gap between research and the delivery of safer patient care. AHRQ's patient safety research summaries reflect the work of agency grantees and contractors. Organized by theme, the summaries provide brief descriptions of

https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/index.html

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Standards and Evaluation of Healthcare Quality, Safety, …

(5 days ago) WEBHealthcare is a service offered to persons who are simultaneously patients in a traditional sense and customers in a modern sense. This article focuses on the delivery of health services and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK576432/

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Quality and Patient Safety Resources Agency for Healthcare …

(6 days ago) WEBSurveys on Patient Safety Culture. As part of its goal to support a culture of patient safety and quality improvement in the Nation's health care system, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sponsored the development of patient safety culture assessment tools for hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory outpatient medical offices

https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/index.html

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Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and

(1 days ago) WEBAbstract. Over the last two decades healthcare quality and safety have risen to the fore of health policy and research. This has largely been informed by theoretical and empirical ideas found in the fields of ergonomics and human factors. These have enabled significant advances in our understanding and management of quality and safety.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26663206/

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Home Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

(1 days ago) WEBAbout our work at AHRQ. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

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QUALITY IN HEALTHCARE - 2021 National Healthcare Quality and

(5 days ago) WEBThe foundation of quality healthcare is doing the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right person and having the best results possible. Quality healthcare often means striking the right balance when providing healthcare services by avoiding overuse (e.g., unnecessary tests), underuse (e.g., missed blood pressure screening), or misuse (e.g., …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578527/

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Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and

(4 days ago) WEBThe emergence of healthcare quality and safety as a social problem Travaglia (2009) discerns that healthcare quality and safety has passed through several phases or waves of interest (see also Bulger 1973, Cassirer and Anderson 2004, Small and Barach 2002). In the first wave, attention to quality and safety was not concerned with …

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Healthcare Quality and Safety: A Review of Policy, Practice and

(5 days ago) WEBThe third wave of interest in quality and safety dates from around the 1950s until the late 1980s. The dominant approach to healthcare quality and safety has made important contributions to how policy, research and practice understand and seek to improve the organisation and delivery of patient care.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781119276371.ch2

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CDC's Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe

(7 days ago) WEBMethods. CDC healthcare infection control guidelines 1-17 were reviewed, and recommendations included in more than one guideline were grouped into core infection prevention practice domains (e.g., education and training of HCP on infection prevention, injection and medication safety). Additional CDC materials aimed at providing general …

https://www.cdc.gov/infection-control/hcp/core-practices/index.html

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Perspectives: Envisioning healthcare quality and safety in 2030

(2 days ago) WEBImproving quality involves assessing process and outcome measures of safety, effectiveness, patient-centredness, timeliness, efficiency and equity, as well as strengthening the capacity of health systems and clinical practices to create and sustain an organisational culture of quality and safety (Institute of Medicine, 2001).This …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1744987121992911

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Legal and Policy Interventions to Improve Patient Safety

(Just Now) WEBPublic Reporting of Performance Data. Public reporting of data on the quality and safety performance of institutions has expanded through a combination of external rules and voluntary initiatives from within healthcare organizations. 6,7 The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has, in many respects, taken the lead by leveraging its …

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha.115.015880

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Advancing the Culture of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

(3 days ago) WEBThis review explores the aims of health care reform, the national efforts to create a culture of quality and safety, the principles of quality improvement, and how these principles can be applied to patient care and medical practice. Keywords: value-based care, patient safety, outcomes, evidence-based medicine, practice-based learning.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587327/

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About AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Work Agency for …

(2 days ago) WEBAbout AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Work. AHRQ is the lead federal agency for patient safety research. We invest in research and implementation projects that make care safer by bridging the gap between basic and clinical research and the actual health care that reaches patients. Our projects accelerate learning and innovation in health care

https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/index.html

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Patient safety - World Health Organization (WHO)

(3 days ago) WEBWHO fact sheet on patient safety, including key facts, common sources of patient harm, factors leading to patient harm, system approach to patient safety, and WHO response. engaging patients and families in policy development, research and shared decision-making; and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Falls. PSNet; 2019. (https

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety

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Effect of interventions to improve safety culture on healthcare

(Just Now) WEBAlong with improvements to patient safety, interventions to optimize safety culture can also improve staff outcomes. This review highlights the effects safety culture interventions have on hospital staff, what may explain these effects, and how staff experience these changes. Teamwork and collaboration, leadership support for safety, …

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-interventions-improve-safety-culture-healthcare-workers-hospital-settings-systematic

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An introduction to healthcare quality: defining and explaining its …

(5 days ago) WEBQuality of care is one of the most frequently quoted principles of health policy, and it is currently high up on the agenda of policy-makers at national, European and international levels (EC, 2016; OECD, 2017; WHO, 2018; WHO/OECD/World Bank, 2018). At the national level, addressing the issue of healthcare quality may be motivated by various …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549277/

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ISMP Guidance and Tools - Institute For Safe Medication Practices

(2 days ago) WEBThis list includes abbreviations, symbols, and dose designations that have been frequently misinterpreted and involved in harmful or potentially harmful medication errors. Read more. Tools. Tools. Worksheet for the ISMP Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals. Analyze your current status with implementation. Read more. Guidelines.

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Six Domains of Healthcare Quality Agency for Healthcare …

(1 days ago) WEBA handful of analytic frameworks for quality assessment have guided measure development initiatives in the public and private sectors. One of the most influential is the framework put forth by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which includes the following six aims for the healthcare system. [1

https://www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/six-domains.html

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Infection Control Basics Infection Control CDC

(4 days ago) WEBInfection prevention, control and response resources for outbreak investigations, the infection control assessment and response (ICAR) tool and more. Infection control specifically for surfaces and water management programs in healthcare settings. Preventing multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs). Sources. Infection control …

https://www.cdc.gov/infection-control/about/index.html

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Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and

(3 days ago) WEBOver the last two decades healthcare quality and safety have risen to the fore of health policy and research. This has largely been informed by theoretical and empirical ideas found in the fields of ergonomics and human factors. These have enabled significant advances in our understanding and management of quality and safety.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9566.12391

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Caring for an Aging US Population—the Good News and the Bad …

(Just Now) WEBThe challenges facing the nursing home industry are helping to drive changes in strategies for aging. The landmark report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2022 on nursing home quality identified serious shortcomings. 5 One outcome of the report has been increased attention focused on alternative …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2819365

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Guidelines and Safety Practices for Improving Patient Safety

(5 days ago) WEBThis chapter explains why clinical practice guidelines are needed to improve patient safety and how further research into safety practices can successfully influence the guideline development process. There is a description of the structured process by which guidelines that aim to increase the likelihood of a higher score are created. Proposals …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK585634/

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: A Profile

(9 days ago) WEBThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of healthcare for all Americans. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the healthcare system and help consumers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers make informed health …

https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/profile/index.html

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Defining Patient Safety and Quality Care - Patient …

(3 days ago) WEBPatient safety is the cornerstone of high-quality health care. Much of the work defining patient safety and practices that prevent harm have focused on negative outcomes of care, such as mortality and morbidity. Nurses …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2681/

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Custom Care & Coverage Just For You Kaiser Permanente

(7 days ago) WEBHealth and wellness. Take charge of your heart. This Stroke Awareness Month, partner with Kaiser Permanente for a healthier heart. With our top-notch cardiac care and resources, we help keep your heart beating strong. Learn more about our services and start your journey to better heart health. Health and wellness.

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/front-door

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The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: We …

(9 days ago) WEBIn addition, the NHQDR underscores shortcomings in the healthcare delivery system's capacity to deliver safe, high-quality care. In January 2022, the number of healthcare workers employed in hospitals was 2 percent lower than in January 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/2022-national-healthcare-disparities-report.html

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