About QualityTools™
QualityTools™, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a Web-based clearinghouse providing
practical tools for assessing, measuring, promoting, and improving the quality of
Americans' health care. QualityTools is sponsored by AHRQ to promote widespread access to
health care quality information used by the health care community and other interested individuals.
The QualityTools mission is to provide health care providers, health plans, policymakers, purchasers,
patients and consumers an accessible mechanism to implement quality improvement recommendations,
initiatives, or principles and to improve the delivery and receipt of care, inform health care decisions,
and educate individuals regarding their own health care needs.
Key components of QualityTools include:
- Structured, standardized abstracts (summaries) containing information about every tool in the
clearinghouse;
- Links to tools and/or ordering details for the full tool.
Other user-friendly features include the following:
- What's New enables users to see what
tools and features have been added each week and includes an index of all tools in QualityTools.
- QualityTools Update Service
is a weekly electronic mailing of new tools and updates to existing tools posted to the QualityTools
Web site.
- Detailed Search enables users
to limit their online searches to tools that target a particular disease/condition, audience, tool category,
or vulnerable population.
- QualityTools Browse permits users to scan tools based on the tool's intended audience.
Our audience groups include:
Providers,
Policymakers,
Patients
and Consumers, and
Payers and Purchasers
- Glossary provides definitions of
terms used in the standardized abstracts (summaries).
- Inclusion Criteria are the
requirements a tool must meet in order to be included in QualityTools.
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