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Resources

QualityTools™, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides the following resources to QualityTools users.

Glossary

The QualityTools Glossary provides clarifying definitions and examples of terms used to describe common properties of health care that are used in the QualityTools structured abstracts (summaries).

Tool Archive

QualityTools provides a complete list of Tool Summaries (with QualityTools accession numbers) that have been withdrawn from the QualityTools Web site in a Tool Archive. The listing is organized alphabetically, by organization name.

Tool Index

QualityTools provides a Tool Index of all tool summaries available through the Web site. The listing is organized alphabetically, by organization name.

Web Developer Tools

The Web Developer Tools resource provides Web developers with RSS feeds of the entire inventory of QualityTools content. Using this resource, Web developers can easily incorporate headline information from our Web sites and navigate back to our sites for detailed summaries and other features.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Answers to a number of questions received from QualityTools users can be found in the QualityTools FAQ.

Related Links

Links to resources such as National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR), National Heathcare Disparities Report (NHDR), the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed, the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) are provided. See the Related Links page to find out about these related sites.

Site Features

The QualityTools Web site offers features such as a Subscription Management Update Service and the ability to Browse the Web site by a particular User Group. Visit the Site Features page for more information.

Technical Specifications

For technical information about the site, refer to the Technical Specifications page.

Suggestions?

Your suggestions for QualityTools Resources are welcome. Send e-mail to info@qualitytools.ahrq.gov.