QualityTools

QualityTools is a compilation of practical tools for assessing, measuring, promoting, and improving the quality of health care. Its purpose is to give health plans, providers, purchasers, consumers, and policymakers easy access to a variety of resources they can use to improve the delivery of care, inform decisions, and educate people about their health care needs. In many cases, these tools complement or directly support innovations presented on this site. Learn more about the tools on this site.

Browse QualityTools by Subject

Find QualityTools classified by disease or clinical category, patient population, stage of care, setting of care, and more.

Featured QualityTools (August 18, 2008)

Read the QualityTools to learn how nursing care and nursing home care can be improved, and home-based care can benefit the elderly.

Other New QualityTools in this issue (Posted on August 18, 2008)

AARP

- Men: Stay Healthy at 50+—Checklists for Your Health

- Staying Healthy at 50+ [Poster]

- Women: Stay Healthy at 50+—Checklists for Your Health

AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY (AHRQ), JOHN M. EISENBERG CENTER AT OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

- Comparing Oral Medications for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

- Pills for Type 2 Diabetes: A Guide for Adults

HEALTH CENTER AT TREMONT

- Health Not Cosmetics: Adult Tools Page

- Health Not Cosmetics: For Physicians/Providers

JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

- Develop Your "Hospital At Home" Program

THE HOSPITAL AND HEALTHSYSTEM ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA

- Standardized Color-Coded Patient Wristbands

Go to all QualityTools by posted date.

Note: The QualityTools section of the Innovations Exchange site replaces the stand-alone QualityTools Web site launched by AHRQ in 2003. Please replace any links or bookmarks for http://www.qualitytools.ahrq.gov/ with http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/qualitytools.

Last updated: August 18, 2008.