Measurement tools in patient education

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Weinrich, Marilyn D. Kristjanson, Jan Atwood and Lesley F. Degner Levin Lowe James and Susan Waisbren Froman and Steven V. Owen Ferrell, Michelle Rhiner and Lynne M. Rivera Pelletz, W. Thomas Edwards and Christine Peeters-Asdourian Levin, Kenneth R. Lofland, Jeffrey E. Cassisi, Amir M. Poreh and E. Richard Blonsky Symonds, A. Burton, K. Tillotson and C. Main Kay Bartholomew, Guy S. Parcel, Paul R. Swank and Danita I. Czyzewski Gattuso, Mark D. Litt and Terence E. Fitzgerald Eaden, Keith Abrams and John F.

Mayberry Dancey, Rachel Fox and Gerald M. Devins Pande, Dominic de Takats, John A. McCloskey Ailinger, Doreen C. Harper and Howard A. LaSus The Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients in Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings is designed to help staff actively engage patients and their care partners to prevent errors during transitions of care. Be More Engaged in Your Health Care: Tips for Patients, a brochure that gives patients tips to use before, during, and after a medical appointment to get the best possible care.

Getting Ready for Your Ambulatory Surgery. This 2-page patient brochure helps patients and their families prepare for ambulatory surgeries and other procedures performed in outpatient settings.

InfoSAGE, short for "Information Sharing Across Generations," is a free web resource to facilitate care coordination among the patient and family members and their medical team. It includes a medication manager to help older adults and their families keep an accurate medication list, coordinate the list with prescribing clinicians, track the impact of medications on symptoms, view medication precautions and drug-drug interactions, and become more engaged as partners in their care.

My Questions for This Visit are sheet notepads designed for use in physician offices to help patients identify the top three questions they want to remember to ask during medical visits.

Questions Are the Answer materials are designed to improve communication between patients and clinicians to help make healthcare safer. Notepads, an online Question Builder, and a DVD with a 7-minute video designed to be played in waiting rooms of patients and clinicians discussing the importance of asking questions are also available.

Web: archive. Staying Active and Healthy With Blood Thinners is a minute video that features easy-to-understand explanations, in English and Spanish, of how blood thinners work and why it is important to take them correctly. It also introduces BEST, an easy way to remember how to fit blood thinner medication into daily life. Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital is an easy-to-read guide to help nurses or discharge advocates work with patients to track medication schedules, upcoming medical appointments, and important phone numbers after they leave the hospital.

Your Guide to Preventing and Treating Blood Clots discusses ways to prevent, treat, and recognize symptoms of blood clots. It also describes medications used to prevent blood clots and their side effects. Your Medicine: Be Smart. Be Safe answers common questions about getting and taking medicines; includes a handy form to help patients keep track of their medicines.

Advances in Patient Safety and Medical Liability highlights results from a number of AHRQ-funded planning and demonstration grants aimed at improving patient safety and malpractice outcomes, as well as the environment in which those outcomes occur. Some of the topics include the role of patients and families in supporting improved care and patient safety; the impact of institutional silence when patient harm occurs; and the implementation of disclosure, apology, and offer programs.

Common Formats are specifications used to collect patient safety event information in a standard way, using common language, definitions, technical requirements for electronic implementation, and reporting. The Common Formats can be used to collect data on all types of adverse events, near misses, and unsafe conditions in hospitals, nursing homes, and more. Common Formats are currently available for hospitals, nursing homes, and community pharmacies.

Healthcare Comes Home: The Human Factors is an AHRQ-funded report from the National Research Council that offers recommendations for system improvements to address the most prevalent and serious threats to safety and quality of care provided in the home environment. Healthcare Simulation Dictionary—Second Edition has added 40 new terms to the more than healthcare simulation terms and definitions in the first edition.

The dictionary standardizes simulation terminology for healthcare simulation professionals to use in areas such as education, assessment, research, and systems integration. Hospital-Acquired Conditions National Scorecard provides interim and final data on hospital-acquired conditions HACs from national efforts to make health care safer. Results show a 21 percent decline in HACs from to Making Healthcare Safer III Report: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices reviews 47 practices that target patient safety improvement in hospitals, primary care practices, long-term care facilities, and other healthcare settings.

National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions is a report that shows progress toward the goal of reducing hospital-acquired conditions HACs. These are conditions that a patient develops while in the hospital being treated for something else. National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, a congressionally mandated annual report that presents trends and disparities in the effectiveness, safety, timeliness, patient-centeredness, and efficiency of care based on more than measures of care.

Redman provides a synopsis of the development, administration and scoring guidelines of the instrument. In addition, she provides a review of the research conducted to describe the psychometric properties of the Falls Efficacy Scale. She concludes the overview with a critique of her perspective on the quality of the tool's psychometrics and applications.

This text could serve as an important resource in clinical and community settings to stimulate program development or facilitate patient education program evaluation.

Researchers and students would likely find this book helpful when designing investigations and outcome studies. The information on each instrument is current, clearly written and well organized. The appendix consists of a table summarizing essential characteristics of each tool.