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AHRQ awards two-year grants for safety initiatives

Quality Improvement Monitor, June 9, 2005

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will award more than $8 million in funding for 15 projects over two years that are designed to help clinicians, facilities, and patients implement evidence-based patient safety practices, the agency said in a statement June 8.

The 15 Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety grants will use interventions that are ready to be implemented now and will have both an immediate and a long-term impact. More than half the projects focus on reducing medication errors, an area known to be in need of patient safety solutions, the statement said.

Other projects include improving patient safety in the ED, and many of the projects will apply interventions to improve healthcare team communications, also a well-known source of errors, the statement said.

A key component of the projects is the development of a set of free, publicly available toolkits for healthcare providers and others that will share lessons learned on how to best implement patient safety practices. For example, toolkits will be developed to help patients keep track of their prescription medicines when they are admitted to or discharged from the hospital, AHRQ said in the statement.

For a complete listing of the 15 projects, go to www.ahrq.gov/qual/pips.htm.

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