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• Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit
  Download these nine essential tools to guide your organization in improving patient safety and delivering safe, reliable care. Tools include FMEA, SBAR, root cause analysis, daily huddles, and more.
• Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit
  Download these ten essential quality improvement tools to help you with your improvement projects, continuous improvement, and quality management, whether you use the Model for Improvement, Lean, or Six Sigma.
• IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events
  The use of "triggers," or clues, to identify adverse events (AEs) is an effective method for measuring the overall level of harm in a health care organization.
• SBAR Tool: Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation
  The SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) technique provides a framework for communication between members of the health care team and can be used as a tool to foster a culture of patient safety.

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• Better Maternal Outcomes Quality Improvement Workbooks
  ​Developed as part of the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network, the workbooks contain descriptions, examples, and templates for tools that teams can use to guide their quality improvement (QI) work focused on improving maternal health outcomes and equity.
• Quality Improvement Team Member Matrix Worksheet
  Effective quality improvement (QI) teams are multidisciplinary and include different areas of expertise. Use this worksheet to help you form a QI team that represents a range of perspectives and expertise.
• QI Team Member Work Styles Inventory Worksheet
  Quality improvement (QI) team members can use this worksheet to identify their preferred work styles.
• Quality Improvement Project Measures Worksheet
  Use this worksheet to identify the process, outcome, and balancing measures for your quality improvement project.
• Quality Improvement Project Change Concepts Worksheet
  A change concept is a general notion or approach to change that has been found to be useful in developing specific ideas for improvement. Use this worksheet to choose and explore relevant change concepts for a quality improvement project.

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• Safer Dx Checklist: 10 High-Priority Practices for Diagnostic Excellence
  Organizations can use this self-assessment tool with 10 recommended practices for diagnostic excellence to understand current diagnostic practices, identify areas to improve, and track progress toward diagnostic safety and excellence over time.
• “Psychological PPE”: Promote Health Care Workforce Mental Health and Well-Being
  The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating existing issues with health care professional burnout and joy in work. Evidence-based recommendations for “psychological PPE” (protection and support for staff mental health and well-being) are intended for use by staff providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Four Steps for Developing Reliable Processes
  Creating and sustaining reliable processes to ensure health care quality and patient safety requires thoughtful planning and execution. This checklist of four steps will help ensure your systems are designed with reliability in mind. ​
• Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit
  Download these nine essential tools to guide your organization in improving patient safety and delivering safe, reliable care. Tools include FMEA, SBAR, root cause analysis, daily huddles, and more.
• Selected Resources: Improving Opioid and Pain Management
  This document offers selected resources for clinicians and health care administrators to take action on opioid and pain management and opioid use disorder (OUD), organized into three categories: Patient Assessment, Intervention, and Treatment; Provider Training and Support; and Strategy and Planning.

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• Safer Dx Checklist: 10 High-Priority Practices for Diagnostic Excellence
  Organizations can use this self-assessment tool with 10 recommended practices for diagnostic excellence to understand current diagnostic practices, identify areas to improve, and track progress toward diagnostic safety and excellence over time.
• Better Maternal Outcomes Quality Improvement Workbooks
  ​Developed as part of the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network, the workbooks contain descriptions, examples, and templates for tools that teams can use to guide their quality improvement (QI) work focused on improving maternal health outcomes and equity.
• Conversation Guide to Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
  The guide helps health care staff and leaders begin to quickly engage in effective conversations about COVID-19 vaccination, enabling learning in practice and resolving issues that arise from such conversations.
• 100 Million Healthier Lives Health and Well-Being Measurement Approach and Assessment Tools
  These tools and resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, help individuals, organizations, and communities measure what matters most to advance health, well-being, and equity at multiple levels and across topics.
• 100 Million Healthier Lives Engaging People with Lived Experience Tools
  This collection of resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, provides key information and tools to support communities and organizations to authentically engage people with lived experience in co-design and implementation efforts.
• 100 Million Healthier Lives Advancing Equity Tools
  These tools and resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, support communities' efforts to prioritize equity in an authentic and deep way and address racism as a determinant of health as they work toward achieving improvements in health and well-being.
• Hospital Preparedness for a COVID-19 Surge: Assessment Tool
  The purpose of this assessment tool is for hospitals to identify current organizational capabilities and gaps to improve their preparedness and response for another surge of COVID-19 patients.
• “Psychological PPE”: Promote Health Care Workforce Mental Health and Well-Being
  The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating existing issues with health care professional burnout and joy in work. Evidence-based recommendations for “psychological PPE” (protection and support for staff mental health and well-being) are intended for use by staff providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Conversation and Action Guide to Support Staff Well-Being and Joy in Work During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
  During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care leaders are working to support staff who are experiencing anxiety, stress, and intense demands. This guide includes actionable ideas that leaders can quickly test during the coronavirus response, and which can build the longer-term foundation to sustain joy in work and well-being for the health care workforce.
• Quality Improvement Team Member Matrix Worksheet
  Effective quality improvement (QI) teams are multidisciplinary and include different areas of expertise. Use this worksheet to help you form a QI team that represents a range of perspectives and expertise.