Resources may include guidelines, quick references, and templates to assist pratitioners in understanding quality improvement concepts and to aid in developing initiatives.

Accreditation and Regulatory Resources

• AHRQ Tools for Meeting National Patient Safety Goals
• AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange for Health Care Professionals
• The American Accreditation Health Care Commission
• Food and Drug Administration Patient Safety Portal
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Quality Initiative (HQI)
• TJC Issues 2008 National Patient Safety Goals
• TJC Pharmacists Web Page
• Medication Reconciliation

AJHP Practice Reports

• Quality improvement using the Baldrige Criteria for Organizational Performance Excellence. Am. J. Health Syst. Pharm., Jun 2009; 66: 1031-1034
• Implementation of an insulin therapy protocol: Applying the Baldrige approach. Am. J. Health Syst. Pharm., Jun 2009; 66: 1035-1038

Other Health Care Quality Links and Resources

• American Health Quality Association (represents QIOs and healthcare quality improvement professionals)
• American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
• Association of Health Care Journalists Resource Page (current healthcare news)
• Center for Health Care Strategies (improving the quality of publicly financed health care)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (infection control resources)
• Commonwealth Fund (Foundation supporting high performance in health systems; includes national healthcare data)
• Dartmouth Clinical Microsystems (tools, resources, references, presentations on quality improvement in frontline health care systems)
• Department of Veterans Affairs', National Center for Patient Safety (safety and safety training, including tools and accreditation resources)
• FDA Patient Safety News (videos and other resources on drug safety)
• Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (condition and disease-specific guidelines, sample order sets, protocols and other resources)
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement QI Resources (quality improvement and change management tools and resources)
• The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (medication error prevention and safe medication use)
• kaiserEDU (resources on health policy)
• Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety (voluntary program with incentives for big leaps in quality improvement and tools for participants)
• National Academy for State Health Policy Quality, Safety, and Performance (resources for state level organizations and initiatives)
• National Association for Healthcare Quality (continuing education on quality from an association for health care quality professionals; includes resources and certification)
• National Committee for Quality Assurance (quality measurement resources form a national quality accreditation, certification and recognition organization)
• National Council on Patient Information and Education (resources for educating patients about their medications)
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (UK) (features both clinical and process redesign guidelines, tools, and templates)
• National Quality Forum (NQF endorses the primary standards used to measure health care quality)
  • NQF 2009 update of Safe Practices for Better Healthcare
• Premier Safety Institute (safety and quality initiatives plus two free publications: Safety Share and daily Media Monitoring for health care quality items at http://www.premierinc.com/costs/education-newsletters/)
• Quality of Care Reference Library (multiple resources for chartbooks and key health care data)
• Rand Corporation Health and Healthcare Resources (health care quality research, publications, and policy analysis)
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (tools, research, data on improving public health)
  • Improving Chronic Illness Care (Robert Wood Johnson)
• Society of Hospital Medicine Quality Improvement Resource Room (quality improvement training resources and disease-specific interventions)
• SafetyLeaders.org: the Texas Medical Institute of Technology (TMIT) (research organization driving high impact solutions for safety and performance improvement; extensive safety and PI resources; free registration required)
• Talking to Consumers about Health Care Quality (AHRQ) (resources for discussing health care quality issues with patients)
• Recommended Reading