The Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI Toolkit) is a free and easy-to-use resource for hospitals planning to use the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), including the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), to track and improve inpatient quality and patient safety. The QI Toolkit also may serve as a general guide to applying improvement methods in a hospital setting.
More information is available in the AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Fact Sheet.
Advanced Performance Improvement in Health Care: Principles and Methods by 
Basics of Health Care Performance Improvement a Lean Six Sigma Approach by 
Washington Manual of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement by 
McLaughlin and Kaluzny's by Here you’ll find a list of peer-reviewed journals and online publications that publish clinical work on a variety of topics, including quality improvement.
The best way to get to know a journal is to read several recent issues, ideally a print version, where you can see the entire issue. (It’s also useful to look at the online version, but keep in mind that online versions may only have selected pieces of content and may delay online publication of print content for six months.
Quality Improvement and Implementation Science |
Health Policy, Research, and Management |
Nursing |
Medicine |
Academic Medicine |
Internal Medicine |
Specialty Practice |
Informatics and Measurement |
*list curated by the Institute of Healthcare Quality and Yale School of Medicine
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Partnering to Heal is a computer-based, video-simulation training program on infection control practices for clinicians, health professional students, and patient advocates.
The training highlights effective communication about infection control practices and ideas for creating a "culture of safety" in healthcare institutions to keep patients from getting sicker. Users assume the identity of the following five main characters
(physician, RN, infection preventionist, patient family member and third-year medical student ) and make decisions about preventing Health Care-Associated Infections (HAIs).
