Subject/Research Guides: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Core Courses: DNP 7108

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) AHRQ's mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
AHRQ QI Guide on Improved Nursing Care The goal is to deliver safe, high-quality health care to patients in all clinical settings. You can use the information in this guide to help improve quality of care across settings and at multiple levels.
The Joint Commission An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission accredits and certifies nearly 21,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to meeting certain performance standards.
Milken Institute School of Public Health Center for Health Care Quality Chartered in 2008, CHCQ focuses on research and implementation projects aimed at improving the quality of health care in America, with particular emphases on hospital and ambulatory quality improvement, hospital operations, health care equity, vulnerable populations, and emergency care.
National Committee for Quality Assurance About NCQA Overview The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. Since its founding in 1990, NCQA has been a central figure in driving improvement throughout the health care system, helping to elevate the issue of health care quality to the top of the national agenda.

Suggested Print and eBooks

Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement

Improve patient outcomes, lower costs, reduce fraud--all with healthcare analytics Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement walks your healthcare organization from relying on generic reports and dashboards to developing powerful analytic applications that drive effective decision-making throughout your organization. Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement helps the healthcare industry make the most of the precious data already at its fingertips for long-overdue quality and performance improvement.

Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data

The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for those disparities to light by collecting health care quality information stratified by race, ethnicity and language data. Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data identifies current models for collecting and coding race, ethnicity, and language data; reviews challenges involved in obtaining these data, and makes recommendations for a nationally standardized approach for use in health care quality improvement.

Closing the quality gap:A critical analysis of quality improvement strategies

To bring data to bear on the quality improvement opportunities articulated in the IOM's 2003 report, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) engaged the Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) to perform a critical analysis of the existing literature on quality improvement strategies for a selection of the 20 disease and practice priorities noted in the IOM Report. The focus of the commissioned investigations is translating research into practice-identifying those activities that increase the rate with which practices known to be effective are applied to patient care in real world settings.

Patient Safety and Healthcare Improvement at a Glance

Patient Safety and Healthcare Improvement at a Glance is a timely and thorough overview of healthcare quality written specifically for students and junior doctors and healthcare professionals. It bridges the gap between the practical and the theoretical to ensure the safety and wellbeing of patients. Featuring essential step-by-step guides to interpreting and managing risk, quality improvement within clinical specialties, and practice development, this highly visual textbook offers the best preparation for the increased emphasis on patient safety and quality-driven focus in today's healthcare environment.

Recommended Journals

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
BMC Health Services Research
Journal of Community Health Research The Journal of Community Health Research is a peer review open access journal which publishes original papers related to all areas of basic and biomedical sciences with a special approach to disease prevention & community health promotion. The journal welcomes all researchers working in the different fields of health.
Quality and Safety in Health Care A quarterly international journal focused on health care quality and safety improvement. Reports and reviews research, improvement initiatives and viewpoints, and other relevant papers written by researchers, clinical professionals and managers and experts in organizational development and behavior.

Suggested Subject Terms for Searching

Quality of Health Care (OR healthcare)

Health services

Health care standards

Quality improvement - organization & administration

Health care statistics & numerical data

Health expenditures

Delivery of health care

Patient safety standards