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Reduce medical errors with online toolkits from AHRQ
EHR Connection, December 17, 2007
HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has made an array of toolkits designed to help physicians, nurses, hospital managers, patients and others reduce medical errors available online, according to a December 5 AHRQ press release.
The 17 toolkits range from checklists to reconcile medications when patients are discharged to processes intended to enhance communication among caregivers and with patients. AHRQ-funded experts who specialize in patient safety research developed the toolkits, which are free, publicly available, and adaptable to most healthcare settings.
Researchers who developed the toolkits studied patient safety interventions in diverse populations, including children and older patients. They also examined best practices in healthcare settings that included large urban hospitals, health clinics, small rural facilities, and hospital emergency departments.
Some toolkits focus on identifying high-risk practices, while the intent of others is to reduce medication errors or other harm to patients.
Click here to read the AHRQ press release.
Click here to visit the Patient Safety Tools: Improving Safety at the Point of Care Web site.
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