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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.
Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) | Agency for Healthcare …
Transforming the Organization and Delivery of Primary Care Why Do We Need To Transform? The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recognizes that revitalizing the Nation’s primary care system is foundational to achieving high-quality, accessible, efficient health care …
Types of Health Care Quality Measures
Measures used to assess and compare the quality of health care organizations are classified as either a structure, process, or outcome measure.
Six Domains of Healthcare Quality - Agency for Healthcare …
A 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 …
Clinical Guidelines and Recommendations | Agency for Healthcare ...
Guidelines and Measures. This AHRQ microsite was set up by AHRQ to provide users a place to find information about its legacy guidelines and measures clearinghouses, National Guideline Clearinghouse TM (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse TM (NQMC). This information was previously available on guideline.gov and qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov, …
Funding & Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Policies and procedures, grant announcements, contract solicitations, special initiatives, call for partners, small business innovation research, and research dissertations, training, and career development.
Access to Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Access to health care means having 'the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes.' Access to health care consists of four components: Coverage: facilitates entry into the health care system. Uninsured people are less likely to receive medical care and more likely to have poor health status. Services: Having a usual source of care is associated …
Tool: SBAR | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
SBAR, which stands for Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (or Request), is a structured communication framework that can help teams share information about the condition of a patient or team member or about another issue your team needs to address. In phrasing a conversation with ...
Quality Improvement (QI) Toolkit with Templates, Instructions, and ...
This toolkit consists of 10 tools and templates—with instructions and examples—for primary care practices to use to improve quality. Tools include: cause and effect diagram, failure modes and effects analysis, histogram, Pareto chart, and scatter diagram.
CAHPS Patient Experience Surveys and Guidance
CAHPS surveys assess patient experience with healthcare services delivered in different settings and for specific conditions.