- Toolkit
- Published July 2016
The Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators: How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2016.
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This toolkit provides resources to help hospitals to augment safety. The updated toolkit represents adjustments made to the AHRQ Quality Indicators to support the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10, experience from testing in hospitals, and materials targeted to inform leadership of the program. The toolkit is structured around enhancing multidisciplinary teamwork by completing a series of steps such as assessing the organizational readiness for a change initiative, implementing improvements, and determining the return on investment of the programs.
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