HRSA Clinical Quality Toolkit Analysis

HRSA Clinical Quality & Performance Measures Toolkit
HRSA recognizes the need for a toolkit of objective educational tools and resources to assist an organization in its quality improvement (QI) efforts. The HRSA Quality Toolkit is equipped with proven strategies and techniques to effectively support an organization's new or existing QI program. The toolkit's wide range of practical, convenient, and useful tools are used for implementing data collection and performance measurement techniques, and the organizations that integrated their use into QI programs effectively improved their deliveries of care. These resources are adaptable and may be used to facilitate the implementation of a new QI program or fine tune an existing one.”

Operating
This toolkit consists of some existing educational resources plus new measure-specific worksheets designed to walk the user step-by-step through reporting for each measure.

AHRQ State Snapshots
Provides state-specific health care quality information including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The goal is to help State officials and their public- and private-sector partners better understand health care quality and disparities in their State.

Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation An Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality resource which describes what federally funded programs have accomplished in understanding medical errors and implementing programs to improve patient safety over the last five years.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet)
An Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality resource which includes an annotated compilation of the most recent and important news, research, tools, and conferences in patient
The tools were developed in the field and are designed to be implemented by multidisciplinary users.

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
An Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality resource which assesses the safety culture of a hospital as a whole, or for specific units within hospitals, as well as to track changes in patient safety over time and evaluate the impact of patient safety interventions.

Community Quality Collaboratives
An AHRQ resource which describes Community-based multistakeholder collaboratives which are on the forefront of implementing cutting-edge ways to transform health care at the local level.

Report to Congress: National Strategyfor Quality Improvement in Health Care
The National Quality Strategy promotes quality health care in which the needs of patients, families, and communities guide the actions of all those who deliver and pay for care. This report incorporates the evidence-based results of the latest research and scientific advances in clinical medicine, public health, and health care delivery.

E-Prescribing and Medication