Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Mark your calendar for an AHRQ webinar on October 17, 1 to 2 p.m. ET, on Introducing the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Outpatient Mental Health Survey will focus on the purpose and design of the new Outpatient #MentalHealth Survey. Introducing the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Outpatient Mental Health Survey will focus on the purpose and design of the new Outpatient #MentalHealth Survey. https://lnkd.in/eXMvFdaQ

Save the Date for October 8, Noon to 1 p.m. ET for an AHRQ webinar on Leadership Strategies That Improve Workforce Safety and Well-Being, sponsored by the National Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety. It will provide tools and feature experts from hospital and #PrimaryCare settings who will share how leadership behaviors are creating safer, healthier work environments. Leadership Strategies That Improve Workforce Safety and Well-Being, sponsored by the National Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety. It will provide tools and feature experts from hospital and #PrimaryCare settings who will share how leadership behaviors are creating safer, healthier work environments. https://lnkd.in/esj3pZGW

A new AHRQ issue brief - The Patient's Role in Diagnostic Safety and Excellence: From Passive Reception Toward Co-Design - highlights the crucial shift in healthcare toward more active patient involvement in the diagnostic process. Research indicates that poor communication between medical professionals and patients accounts for up to 78 percent of diagnostic errors in primary care settings. Efforts to increase patient involvement require the development and maintenance of frameworks that promote patient leadership and collaboration, integrating valuable insights and personal experiences into the diagnostic process. Access the new issue brief now. #PatientCare https://bit.ly/3BpHQmC

A new topic brief from AHRQ, developed by AHRQ’s Academy, presents four case studies illustrating how #PrimaryCare practices can effectively engage with their communities to support whole person care. Each case study highlights the need identified in the practice or community and the community-based intervention conducted in response, as well as the funding sources, results, and key takeaways. The brief offers diverse approaches and strategies that primary care teams can use to engage with their communities to address health-related social needs (HRSN) and improve health outcomes. https://bit.ly/3zU0IK3

A new topic brief from AHRQ highlights five behavioral-developmental health screening and response models for children ages 0-5 and provides guidance for implementation in pediatric and family medicine practices. Behavioral-developmental health screening aims to provide families with young children the assistance and knowledge to promote foundational brain development during the first 5 years of life. The brief was developed by AHRQ’s Academy, which provides topic briefs to support the integration of behavioral health and #PrimaryCare. https://bit.ly/3TRUVvD

Registration is open for a webinar on Oct. 30 from 1 to 2 p.m. ET to highlight how Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Gloucester, VA, used #AHRQ's Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Hospital Survey to enhance its #PatientSafety journey. Presenters will describe their strategies for administering the SOPS Survey and explain how their survey results and SOPS resources are used to improve patient handoffs in medical-surgical units. https://bit.ly/4et8wl1

First- and second-place winners have been named in AHRQ's challenge competition, Harnessing Data Visualization To Advance Equity in Clinical Services. The goal of the Challenge was to create data visualizations to identify disparities in the receipt of clinical preventive services and use these visualizations to create or adapt interventions to address these disparities. The winners are: In first place, Valleywise Health, which created clinical dashboards to optimize depression screening and behavioral health integration at Valleywise Women's Health Clinics. And in second place, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, which developed an interactive data visualization tool for cervical cancer screening. #HealthEquity https://bit.ly/3rsGBib

Surgical teams can now offer patients the educational booklets in Spanish from the AHRQ Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery. The booklets explain what a patient can do before, during, and after certain surgeries to avoid complications and improve outcomes. AHRQ continues its work to advance health equity and be a source for better health among our Hispanic/Latino communities this #HispanicHeritageMonth. https://lnkd.in/eJVY-6vX

An AHRQ summit on Oct. 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET will address the challenges of emergency department (ED) boarding. The live stream webcast will be aimed at identifying hospital- and health system-level solutions to circumstances that sometimes force patients to spend hours—or in some cases, days—in the ED while waiting for an inpatient bed or transfer to another facility. Brendan G. Carr, M.D., M.A., chief executive officer of Mount Sinai Health System, will be the featured speaker. The summit will also include a panel on the impacts of ED boarding and a session on “myths and matters” of ED boarding solutions. Access the live stream link on the day of the summit. #PatientCare https://bit.ly/2H8UGou

In 2023, Congress asked - now AHRQ has delivered the most comprehensive analysis of sepsis trends in hospital care to date. This extensive review of data in AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project has found, among other trends, that the number of sepsis-related inpatient stays has increased from 1.8 million in 2016 to 2.5 million in 2021 - a trend that increased significantly following the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020. AHRQ's director Dr. Robert Valdez describes this report as highlighting "opportunities for targeted initiatives to improve patient outcomes." Now is your chance to get involved - explore the AHRQ report and learn where our efforts can have the most impact. #PatientCare https://lnkd.in/eXCDcqdG