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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s publications offer practical information to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.
Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery
The Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery helps perioperative and surgical units in hospitals identify opportunities to improve care and safety practices and implement evidence-based interventions to prevent surgical site infections. For a toolkit that focuses on ambulatory surgery centers, access the 鶹ƵToolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16(18)-0004
This consumer guide from the Effective Health Care program is greater than 3 years old. Findings should not be considered current.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1518-EHC027-B
Tal vez haya oído que los ácidos grasos omega-3 (de ciertos alimentos y suplementos dietéticos) son buenos para su corazón. Este resumen le explicará lo que han encontrado los investigadores acerca de los ácidos grasos omega-3 y la enfermedad cardiovascular (enfermedad que afecta al corazón y los vasos sanguíneos).
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1718-EHC010-B
This consumer guide from the Effective Health Care program is greater than 3 years old. Findings should not be considered current.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1618-EHC012-B
2017 CAHPS Health Plan Survey Chartbook
The 2017 CAHPS Health Plan Survey Chartbook summarizes what consumers have to say in a standardized survey about their experiences with their health plans and medical care.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 18-0003-EF
Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, Technical Documentation
Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, Technical Documentation summarizes the approach taken to create the list of U.S. health systems. This consolidated list is intended to be an initial resource for researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders who want to identify and describe systems with the ultimate goal of understanding how health systems can improve the cost and quality of healthcare.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 17-0047-EF
Measurement-Powered Quality Improvement
This toolkit, called the 鶹ƵQI Toolkit, is both a general guide to applying improvement methods in a hospital setting and a guide to improving performance specifically using the 鶹ƵQIs. The toolkit serves as a “how to” for the improvement process—from the first stage of self-assessment through the final stage of ongoing monitoring.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 17-0049
Esta información proviene de un informe de investigación que fue financiado por la 鶹Ƶ(Agencia para la Investigación y Calidad de la Atención Médica; AHRQ, por su sigla en inglés), una agencia del gobierno federal. Los investigadores revisaron 154 estudios de investigación acerca del tratamiento de la gota. S
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1617-EHC017-B
Su guía para evitar y tratar la formación de coágulos
Los coágulos son serios. Es importante saber los señales y conseguir tratado enseguida. Esta guía describe maneras de prevenir y de tratar coágulos; síntomas; y efectos secundarios de la medicación así como cuándo ir a la sala de urgencias.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 09-0067-C
Your Medicine: Be Smart. Be Safe.
This guide answers common questions about getting and taking medicines and has handy forms that will help patients keep track of information.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 11-0049-A
