The AHRQ will award above $8 millio...

The AHRQ will award above $8 million in funding for 15 frames designed to help physicians, health care facilities, and patients implement evidence-based patient safety practices. The grants will use interventions that are ready to be implemented; more than undivided half of the projects focus upon reducing medication errors, an area known to be in ne of patient safety solutions. Many of the throws will apply interventions to improve health care team communication, which is also a well-known source of errors. In addition, the interventions are designed to be generalizable to other settings of care. A key-note component of the projects is the disentanglement of a set of independent publicly available toolkits for physicians and other health care professionals that will share scoldings learned on how to best implement patient safety practices. The throws span a wide spectrum of settings and populations, including small rural facilities and large urban hospitals, clinics, and extremity departments, as well as pediatric and geriatric patients.

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