Patient safety culture refers to the beliefs, values and norms shared by providers and staff throughout the organization that influence their actions and behaviors. Since 2001, the AHRQ Surveys on ...

In 2021, 7.9 percent of adults on Medicare and 20.4 percent of adults on Medicaid faced challenges with daily living due to unreliable transportation. By comparison, just 3.4 percent of adults using ...

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Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are both important tools for measuring and improving quality of care. PREMs focus on patients’ experiences ...

In 2021, 15.5 percent of current smokers reported transportation issues that resulted in difficulties accessing daily living needs. People with chronic conditions reported similar reliability ...

About 6 percent of U.S. adults reported that a lack of reliable transportation kept them from medical appointments or other important activities for daily living in 2021. In that timeframe, 15.1 ...

After the Institute of Medicine released its sentinel report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in conjunction with its Federal ...

This module is the first of two parts discussing briefings and debriefings. Teamwork and culture improvement are a big part of this project. Evidence supports that addressing cultural issues in ...

The purpose of the Patient and Family Engagement in the Ambulatory Surgical Environment module is to augment the existing hospital setting Patient and Family Engagement module of the Comprehensive ...

Many organizations are uncertain about how to proceed with designing a workable solution for medication reconciliation. This chapter provides helpful information and tools for designing or redesigning ...

Review the following list of meetings in which falls risk and prevention is potentially discussed by the interdisciplinary team. For every meeting that occurs at your facility, indicate the type of ...