General Quality and Patient Safety Tools

Sample Cause and Effect Diagram Tool (Fishbone) in Excel

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Patient Safety Tools: Improving Safety at the Point of Care

These are 17 toolkits produced under AHRQ's Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety (PIPS) grant program. Designed to help health care institutions and clinicians provide--and consumers receive--safe, quality health care at various points in the health care process—in the hospital, in the emergency department, in the intensive care unit, in the pharmacy, and when being discharged from one setting to another. PIPS projects have produced a variety of evidence-based tools, including training materials, medication guides and checklists, that are easily adapted to other institutions and care settings. The tools were developed in the field and are designed to be implemented by multidisciplinary users.

Checklists (systematic review IJQHC 1/08)

Control Charts

Tutorial and introduction (Mohammed QSHC 2008)

Use for hospital administrative data (IJQHC 1/08)

Systematic review of SPC in healthcare (QSHC 2007)

Chronic Disease Care Model

Implementation Toolkit - AHRQ (2008)

Diagnostic Tools and Techniques in QI

Powerpoint overview from "Transforming care at the Bedside" (RWJ and IHI 2007)

Idea Generation American Organization of Nurse Executives (TCAB- RWJ 2007)

'Transforming Care at the Bedside' Toolkit -- general web link

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)