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• Consumer Information
• Research in Action
• Speeches & Testimony

Tools & Resources

• Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement: Curricular Modules for Faculty
• AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals
• Americans as Health Care Consumers: The Role of Quality Information (1996)
  • Americans as Health Care Consumers: Update On the Role of Quality Information (2000)
• Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: Developing Criteria
• Asthma Health Disparities Collaborative Coalition Guide
• Asthma Return-on-Investment Calculator
• "Best Practices in Public Reporting"
  • No. 1. How To Effectively Present Health Care Performance Data To Consumers
  • No. 2: Maximizing Consumer Understanding of Public Comparative Quality Reports: Effective Use of Explanatory Information
  • No. 3. How to Maximize Public Awareness and Use of Comparative Quality Reports Through Effective Promotion and Dissemination Strategies
• Building the Science of Public Reporting
• Case Studies from the Quality Improvement Support System
• Chartered Value Exchanges: Local Networks with National Standards
• Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies
• Joint Statement of Intent on Collaboration in Improving the Quality of Health Care [ PDF version - 113.99 KB]
• Consumer Financial Incentives: AHRQ Resources
• Designing and Implementing Medicaid Disease and Care Management Programs: A User's Guide
• Development of Electronic Transition Tools for Home Health Care
• Five AHRQ-Supported Studies Featured in March 2012 Health Affairs
• Health Care Efficiency Measures: Identification, Categorization, and Evaluation
• Health Care Quality Glossary (also available as  PDF version - 788.29 KB )
• Improving Health Care Quality: Fact Sheet
• Improving the Quality of Asthma Care
  • Asthma Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action—Update
  • Asthma Care Quality Improvement: A Workbook for State Action
• Improving the Quality of Diabetes Care
  • Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action
  • Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: Workbook for State Action
  • Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action—Supplement (also available as  PDF version - 462.64 KB )
• Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs?
• Leadership by Example: Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality (Institute of Medicine report on Federal quality activities)
• Managing and Evaluating Rapid-Cycle Process Improvements as Vehicles for Hospital System Redesign
• Meeting Medicaid's Cost and Quality Challenges: The Role of AHCPR Research
• Methodological Considerations in Generating Provider Performance Scores for Use in Public Reporting: A Guide for Community Quality Collaboratives
• Model Public Report Elements: A Sampler
• Monitoring and Evaluating Medicaid Fee-for-Service Care Management Programs: User's Guide
• National Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) Quality Demonstration Grant Program
• On-Time Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care
• Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety (PIPS)
  • Frequently Asked Questions
• Patient Safety Improvement Corps
• Patient Self-Management Support Programs: An Evaluation
• Pay for Performance: A Decision Guide for Purchasers
• Pay for Performance (P4P): AHRQ Resources
• Priority Areas for National Action [ - 189.22 KB]
• Promoting Safety and Quality Through Human Resource Practices (PDF) [ - 713.14 KB]
• Purchaser-Provider Synergies Overview
• Quality Diagnostic Tools for States
• Quality Improvement and Performance Measurement in Medicaid Care Management: Fact Sheet
• Regional Coalition Collaboration Guide
• PDF Version [ - 245.66 KB]
• Selecting Quality and Resource Use Measures: A Decision Guide for Community Quality Collaboratives
• System Design: AHRQ Resources
• Strategies to Improve Communication Between Pharmacy Staff and Patients
• TeamSTEPPS™: Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety
  • TeamSTEPPS Homepage
• Theory and Reality of Value-Based Purchasing: Lessons from the Pioneers
• Toolkit for Redesign in Health Care: Final Report
• Using Workforce Practices To Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals

Conferences & Meetings

• AHRQ's Quality Challenge Summit
• AHRQ Summit—Improving Health Care Quality for All Americans: Celebrating Success, Measuring Progress, Moving Forward
  • Summit Summary
  • AHRQ Summit on Improving Quality of Care (Video Summary)
• Assessing Quality of Care for Diabetes: Conference Final Report
• AQA Invitational Meetings on Performance Measurement, Data Aggregation, and Reporting:
• Expanding Research and Evaluation Designs to Improve the Science Base for Health Care and Public Health Quality Improvement Symposium
• Opportunities for Advancing Delivery System Research
• Partnerships for Networked Consumer Health Information
• Toward a Research Agenda on Quality-Payment Alignment: Findings From an Invitational Colloquium

Consumer Information

• Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet
• Consumer Health Informatics and Patient Decisionmaking: Summary
• Quality of Health Information on the Internet—Enabling Consumers To Tell Fact from Fraud

Research in Action

• AHRQ Tools and Resources for Better Health Care
• Expanding Patient-Centered Care To Empower Patients and Assist Providers
• How Four Purchasers Designed and Implemented Quality-Based Purchasing Activities: Lessons From the Field
• Prescription Drug Therapies: Reducing Costs and Improving Outcomes
• Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs

Speeches & Testimony

• 02/01/08 Making the Connection: Value-Driven Health Care, Health Information Technology, and Quality Care