New AHRQ Toolkit Supports Hospital Efforts To Improve Quality and Safety
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released today a free toolkit designed to guide hospitals through the process of using the AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) and Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) to improve care. The AHRQ Quality IndicatorsTM Toolkit for Hospitals is designed and tested to meet the needs of a variety of hospital-based users, including senior leaders, quality staff, and multistakeholder improvement teams. AHRQ developed these research-based tools through a 2-year contract with RAND in collaboration with UHC.
The toolkit includes an “Introduction and Roadmap” to help users identify the resources that are best suited to their specific needs at any given point in the improvement process. It is organized into seven sections:
- Determining Readiness To Change
- Applying QIs to the Hospital Data
- Identifying Priorities for Quality Improvement
- Implementing Improvements
- Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvements
- Analyzing Return on Investment
- Using Other Resources
Download the toolkit at: http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qitoolkit.
To learn more about the toolkit from the developers and hear from a quality expert at a hospital that tested it, register for a free AHRQ-sponsored Webinar on February 15 from 2:30-4:00 p.m. ET: http://meet63385651.adobeconnect.com/hospitaltoolkitregistration/event/event_info.html.
The Webinar “How To Improve Performance on the AHRQ Inpatient Quality and Patient Safety Indicators: Introducing a Toolkit for Hospitals” will cover:
- The purpose of the toolkit.
- How it was developed.
- How it is organized for easy use.
- How a hospital has used it to assess performance on the indicators, identify priorities, and implement changes to improve quality and safety.
For more information on the AHRQ Quality Indicators, visit: . http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/
This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators (QIs) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and support your use of them to successfully improve quality and patient safety in your hospital. The toolkit is a general guide to using improvement methods, with a particular focus on the QIs. It focuses on the 17 Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) and the 28 Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs).
Select to download the print version of the Introduction (PDF File, 175 KB). PDF Help.
Select to download individual sections from the AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit Roadmap.
Select to download the print version of the Introduction (PDF File, 175 KB). PDF Help.
Select to download individual sections from the AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit Roadmap.
Introduction
This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators (QIs) from AHRQ, and support your use of them to successfully improve quality and patient safety in your hospital. Created by the RAND Corporation and the University HealthSystem Consortium with funding from AHRQ, it is available for all hospitals to use free of charge. The toolkit is a general guide to using improvement methods, with a particular focus on the QIs.The AHRQ QIs use hospital administrative data to assess the quality of care provided, identify areas of concern in need of further investigation, and monitor progress over time. This toolkit focuses on the 17 Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) and the 28 Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs). More information on the QIs is available in the Fact Sheets on the IQIs and PSIs (Tools A.1a and A.1b).
A Sequence of Steps for Improvement. The complete improvement process includes the following sequence of steps, in which you will set priorities and plan for performance improvements on the QIs, implement improvement strategies, and sustain improvements achieved:
- Determining Readiness To Change.
- Applying QIs to the Hospital Data.
- Identifying Priorities for Quality Improvement.
- Implementing Improvements.
- Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement.
- Analyzing Return on Investment.
- Using Other Resources.
Toolkit Roadmap. Tools are available to support work in each of the sequence of improvement steps. The Toolkit Roadmap will help you get started. For each key improvement step, it identifies the tools provided in the Toolkit to support your work. For each tool, the Roadmap gives a brief description of the tool and identifies additional relevant information.
Different Tools for Different Audiences. Successful improvement requires involvement by multiple positions in the hospital. Therefore, while your hospital's quality leaders are the primary audience, many tools are aimed at several audiences. The Roadmap shows the intended audiences for each tool. Your hospital may choose to use only those tools that you find helpful. View the toolkit as a "resource inventory" from which you can select the tools that are most useful, given your hospital's current quality improvement capabilities and efforts. The Toolkit Roadmap is the "shopping list" you can use to quickly identify which tools to use at any point in time.
This toolkit underwent a field test, evaluation, and revisions in response to feedback from six diverse hospitals. All information it contains is up to date as of November 2011.
Current as of January 2012
Internet Citation:
AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals. January 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qitoolkit/index.html
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