Toolkit – Determining the Business Case for Quality
Posted: 6/27/2008 In response to widespread interest in making the business case for quality programs, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has published the Adverse Events Prevented Calculator. This tool models the financial implications of reductions in adverse event rates within an organization, including translation of actual and potential improvement results into projected lives and dollars saved.
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Toolkit - Help for Hospitals in Transforming Care at the Bedside
Posted: 6/27/2008 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released a toolkit to help hospitals implement Transforming Care at the Bedside, a program model to engage nurses and leaders at all levels of the organization to improve the safety of patient care on medical and surgical units.
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Toolkit – Reducing Harm from Anticoagulants – from Indiana
Posted: 6/27/2008 With the support of Purdue PharmaTAP, the Indiana Patient Safety Center has developed a toolkit based on their statewide collaborative, Reducing Harm from Anticoagulants.

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Consumer Fact Sheet - Reducing Pressure Ulcers
Posted: 5/14/2008 The Consumers Workgroup of Advancing Excellence is developing a series of consumer fact sheets on the campaign's goals - the first on reducing pressure ulcers. The fact sheet describes pressure ulcers in consumer-friendly language, discusses treatment and informs consumers about what can be done to prevent and treat them.

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HRET Health Disparities Toolkit
Posted: 5/14/2008 The Health Research and Educational Trust has released a Web-based Toolkit available free for hospitals, health systems, clinics and health plans to assist in collection of race, ethnicity and primary language data from patients. Access to the toolkit is free.

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