Evaluation of the AHRQ patient safety initiative: framework and approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Describe the evaluation performed of the patient safety initiative operated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). AHRQ PATIENT SAFETY INITIATIVE When patient safety became a national priority in 2000, Congress charged and funded AHRQ to improve health care safety. Over the next 6 years, AHRQ funded more than 300 research projects and other activities, addressing diverse patient safety issues and practices.

The patient safety evaluation

AHRQ contracted with RAND in 2002 to perform a 4-year evaluation of the initiative, which was completed in 2006. This formative evaluation used the CIPP program evaluation model, which emphasizes multiple stakeholders' interests (e.g., patients, providers, funded researchers). We monitored the progress of the pati

SUBMITTER: Farley DO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2677032 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature