Patient Safety Toolkit: Improving Diagnostic Testing

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a free toolkit for improving patient safety and quality of diagnostic testing in physicians’ offices, clinics and ambulatory care facilities to ensure providers are following best practices for testing protocols.

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The toolkit includes resources for assessing office readiness, planning for improvements, assessing current testing processes and measuring patient engagement, as well as a patient engagement survey, chart auditing tools and an electronic health record evaluation tool.

Visit AHRQ’s website to request a copy of A Toolkit for Rapid-Cycle Patient Safety and Quality Improvement for use in your own facility.

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