Other Patient & Consumer Resources

• AHRQ Clinical Practice Guidelines

Clinicians & Providers

• AHRQ Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Evaluation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations
• Section 4: Immunizations
• Section 5. Topics in Progress

Hospital & Health System Resources

• AHRQ Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Evaluation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations

Policymaker Resources

• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Evaluation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations

Full Research Reports

September 1 2012 20120901

Evaluation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations

Other Research & Data

• AHRQ's clinical care tools help clinicians ensure better and safer care
• Clinical Practice Guidelines

Other News & Events

• AHRQ toolkit helps hospitals improve antibiotic selection to reduce deadly C. difficile infections
• AHRQ's clinical care tools help clinicians ensure better and safer care
• Adequate financial bonuses and peer support motivate providers to adhere to evidence-based treatment guidelines
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Clinical algorithm can identify and locate serious internal bleeding related to oral anticoagulant use
• Clinician and patient resources now available on ADHD treatment options
• Consumer and clinician summaries now available on chronic pelvic pain treatment options
• Electronic order sets can help treatment conform to guidelines for antibiotic use after surgery
• Evaluation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations
• Guideline familiarity does not equal guideline adherence
• Implementing a clinical practice guideline helps children with pneumonia get proper antibiotics
• Most acute-care hospitals follow national guidelines for the prevention and treatment of MRSA infections
• New rule on when to have a trauma surgeon meet a transported trauma patient is found more sensitive than existing criteria
• Outcomes of trauma patients depend heavily on whether recommended practices are followed
• Performance measures requiring antibiotics for pneumonia have not boosted antibiotic use in nonpneumonia patients
• Physicians' reasons for deviating from quality guidelines are usually justified
• Prenatal screening for Group B streptococci often fails to live up to current screening and treatment guidelines
• Rates of pneumonia dramatically reduced in patients on ventilators in Michigan intensive care units
• Similarly effective international guidelines for managing cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes vary in costs
• Study fails to find link between guideline-based emergency treatment for pediatric asthma and patient outcomes
• Treatment guideline reduces hypoglycemic events in critically ill children