Patient safety in the ambulatory setting is gaining traction as a focus for research, intervention, and policy. This position paper highlights seven recommendations to address patient safety challenges in the ambulatory environment, including enhancing patient health literacy, utilizing team-based care models, and establishing a national effort to reduce patient harm across all settings of health [...]
Health Awareness Topics: November 2017 American Diabetes Month (see related guidelines) COPD Awareness Month (see related guidelines) Diabetic Eye Disease Month (see related guidelines) Lung Cancer Awareness Month (see related guidelines) National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month (see related guidelines) Stomach Cancer Awareness Month (see related guidelines)
AHRQ supports U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week, a CDC-sponsored observance to raise awareness of antibiotic resistance and appropriate antibiotic use. The inappropriate use of antibiotics is the single most important factor leading to antibiotic resistance. Each year, about 2 million people become infected with drug resistant bacteria and at least 23,000 people die from these infections. [...]
A new online inventory from AHRQ provides access to more than 300 health care costs, utilization and quality measures. Based on a literature review and environmental scan, the sortable inventory is intended to augment the use of all-payer claims databases (APCDs), which are large State databases of medical, pharmacy and dental claims, as well as [...]
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