Advancing patient safety: Reviews from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Making Healthcare Safer III report

Summary

Making Healthcare Safer III report is the third in a series of reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which reviews research supporting patient safety practices in place to reduce patient harms.

This supplement from Shoemaker-Hunt et al. presents the reviews for eight of the patient safety practices from the Making Healthcare Safer III report:

1. The use of rapid response teams to reduce failure-to-rescue events.
2. The use of patient monitoring systems to improve sepsis recognition and outcomes.
3. Environmental cleaning and decontamination to prevent Clostridioides difficile infection in healthcare settings.
4. Chlorhexidine bathing strategies for multidrug-resistant organisms
5. Using deprescribing practices and STOPP criteria to reduce harm and preventable adverse drug events in older adults
6. The effect of opioid stewardship interventions on key outcomes
7. System-level patient safety practices that aim to reduce medication errors associated with infusion pumps
8. Improving team performance and patient safety on the job through team training and performance support tools.