Becker's Healthcare March 11, 2020
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality outlines 47 practices healthcare providers can adopt or refine to improve patient safety in a new report.
AHRQ’s “Making Healthcare Safer III” offers practice-based evidence and guidance for implementing these safety practices in line with national safety goals, which have evolved since the report’s second installment was published in 2013.
The resource breaks down the safety practices into 17 different harm areas, listed below:
Diagnostic errors
1. Clinical decision support
2. Result notification systems
3. Education and training
4. Peer review
Failure to rescue
5. Patient monitoring systems
6. Rapid response teams
Sepsis recognition
7. Screening tools
8. Patient monitoring systems
Clostridioides difficile infection
9. Antimicrobial stewardship
10. Hand hygiene
11. Environmental cleaning and decontamination
12. Surveillance
13. Testing
14. Multicomponent prevention interventions
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