4 . Your Pain and Mood. To help your care team better manage your transition to buprenorphine, please answer the following questions about both your pain and mood before making any changes.

AHRQ’s SHARE Approach is a clinician-led shared decision-making model with five essential elements for meaningful dialogue with patients exploring benefits, harms, and risks of options and what matters most to them. AHRQ offers a free workshop curriculum to train clinicians in skills and techniques to work with patients to make the best possible healthcare decisions.

SBAR, which stands for Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (or Request), is a structured communication framework that can help teams share information about the condition of a patient or team member or about another issue your team needs to address. In phrasing a conversation with another team member, consider the following:

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

Framework and Competencies Page 3. Key Skills. Communication. A verbal and nonverbal process by which information can be clearly and accurately exchanged among team members.

Measures used to assess and compare the quality of health care organizations are classified as either a structure, process, or outcome measure. Known as the Donabedian model, this classification system was named after the physician and researcher who formulated it. Structural Measures Structural measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity, systems, and processes to ...

Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital. A fall may result in fractures, lacerations, or internal bleeding, leading to increased health care utilization. Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented. Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and optimizing the hospital's physical ...

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.dropcap { float: left; font-size: 35px; line-height: 15px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 3px; } I-PASS has become the preferred handoff tool for patient transitions in many organizations. It is an example of an evidence-based option for conducting a structured handoff. Your facility should determine a standard protocol for delivering handoffs and make it …