The Huddle is a tool for communicating adjustments to a care plan that is already in place. When a plan is or has to be altered due to changes in the patient’s condition or team membership, or the ...

Hospice care is a set of services that allow patients in the final phase of life to spend their last days at home or a home-like setting rather than in a hospital. It is for patients who have decided ...

Although patients are far more informed than they were even 20 or 30 years ago, some people express frustration and dissatisfaction with their care because they do not feel like they have adequate (if ...

Briefs are a strategy for sharing care plans when leading a team. During a brief, which is sometimes referred to as a team meeting, the following information should be discussed: ...

The AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for hospitals was designed for use with the core SOPS Hospital Survey to help hospitals assess the extent to ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to healthcare ...

The Adult version of the CAHPS Hospital Survey (HCAHPS) asks people 18 and older about their experiences with care provided in an inpatient setting. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ...

Of the full list of videos below, the following videos are new with TeamSTEPPS 3.0 and have facilitator's guides to enable discussion of the video: Applying CUS and Teach Back in Inpatient Setting CUS ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides an array of intramural and extramural predoctoral and postdoctoral educational, research infrastructure and career development grants and ...

Most patients report that they always or usually received care as soon as they needed it, but some respondents to the Clinician & Group Survey report that they never or only sometimes got appointments ...

Purpose of the tool: This tool describes the key perinatal safety elements with examples for the safe administration of oxytocin during labor. The key elements are presented within the framework of ...

National Healthcare Safety Network Data Reporting Web site The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) provides long-term care facilities with a ...