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Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative

Final Report -- Evaluation Report IV

by Donna O. Farley, Cheryl L. Damberg, M. Susan Ridgely, Melony E. Sorbero, Michael D. Greenberg, Amelia Haviland, Stephanie S. Teleki, Peter Mendel, Lily Bradley, Jacob W. Dembosky, et al.

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In September 2002, AHRQ entered into a four-year contract with the RAND Corporation to serve as the patient safety evaluation center for its patient safety initiative. The evaluation center is responsible for performing a longitudinal evaluation of the full scope of AHRQ's patient safety activities and for providing regular feedback to support the continuing improvement of this initiative over the four-year project period. This is the fourth and final evaluation report prepared by RAND. It presents new results for the period from October 2005 through September 2006, synthesizes the full evaluation findings over the four-year evaluation period, and discusses how AHRQ activities could be strengthened as the initiative moves forward. It also describes how AHRQ's strategy and activities developed over time, the new knowledge generated by funded projects, and the contributions of various components of the initiative to patient safety. Finally, it presents updated baseline data on selected outcome measures and discusses options for ongoing monitoring of effects on both practices and outcomes.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Chapter Two

    Context and Input Evaluations

  • Chapter Three

    Process: Monitoring Progress and Maintaining Vigilance

  • Chapter Four

    Process: Epidemiology and Effective Practices

  • Chapter Five

    Process: Building Infrastructure for Effective Practices

  • Chapter Six

    Process: Achieving Broader Adoption of Effective Practices

  • Chapter Seven

    Product Evaluation of Effects

  • Chapter Eight

    Summary Assessment

This work was sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The research was conducted in RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation.

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