Other Patient & Consumer Resources

• 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors in Children - Spanish Transcript
• Find Advice and Support
• Get More Information
• Get Preventive Tests
• Glossary
• Healthy Men
• Healthy Men
• Healthy Men
• Healthy Men
• Know Your Prescriptions
• Prevention and Chronic Care Announcement Details
• Quit Smoking
• Stay Healthy
• Take Charge with Fran Drescher, Actress and Cancer Survivor
• Talk With Your Health Care Provider About Taking Aspirin to Prevent Strokes
• Talk with Your Doctor

Clinicians & Providers

• Clinical-Community Relationships Measures (CCRM) Atlas
• Effects of Standardized Outreach for Patients Refusing Preventive Services: a Quasiexperimental Quality Improvement Study
• Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2012
• Marketing Tools for Prevention and Care Management
• Prevention
• Primary Care
• Problems and Prevention: Chest Tube Insertion
• Recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
• Screening for Coronary Heart Disease
• Stroke Prevention: Recommendations
• The Medical Home, Preventive Care Screenings, and Counseling for Children: Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Hospital & Health System Resources

• Clinical-Community Relationships Measures (CCRM) Atlas
• Pressure Ulcer Prevention in Long-term-care Facilities: A Pilot Study Implementing Standardized Nurse Aide Documentation and Feedback Reports
• Prevention
• Primary Care
• Problems and Prevention: Chest Tube Insertion

Policymaker Resources

• Prevention
• Primary Care

Fact Sheets

September 1 2006 20060901

Problems and Prevention: Chest Tube Insertion

March 1 2002 20020301

Helping the Nation With Health Services Research

Full Research Reports

September 1 2012 20120901

Stroke Prevention: Recommendations

Other Research & Data

• Administration on Aging
• Aetna
• Aetna
• Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
• America's Health Insurance Plans
• Anaconda Internal Medicine
• Bon Secours Health System
• British Columbia Ministry of Health
• Clinical-Community Relationships Measures (CCRM) Atlas
• Colorado Area Health Education Center
• Congressional Research Service
• Covisint DocSite
• David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
• Deaf patients who use American Sign Language receive more preventive care if their clinician also uses sign language
• Des Moines University
• East Liberty Family Health Center; East End Community Health Center
• East Tennessee State University Medical Library
• Effects of Standardized Outreach for Patients Refusing Preventive Services: a Quasiexperimental Quality Improvement Study
• Ethica Health and Retirement Communities
• Health Resources and Services Administration
• Humana, Inc.
• Humana, Inc.
• IBM Integrated Health Services
• IBM Integrated Health Services
• Indiana State Department of Health
• Iowa Healthcare Collaborative
• Kauffman-Gamber Physical Therapy
• Lakeland Regional Medical Center
• Mayo Clinic
• National Taiwan University Hospital
• National Taiwan University Hospital
• New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• NextGen Healthcare
• North Carolina Medicaid
• Piedmont Healthcare
• Prevention
• Primary Care
• San Francisco General Hospital
• Spanish Catholic Center
• State of North Carolina
• Stony Brook University School of Medicine
• The Medical Home, Preventive Care Screenings, and Counseling for Children: Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
• University Health System
• University of Iowa College of Public Health
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey—School of Osteopathic Medicine
• University of North Texas Health Science Center
• University of Tokyo Hospital
• Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Watson Clinic
• Wichita State University: College of Health Professions
• integrated Physician Network

Press Releases

June 15 2010 20100615

AHRQ and Ad Council Encourage Men To Take Preventive Steps in Their Health Care

News & Numbers

June 16 2010 20100616

Men Shy Away from Routine Medical Appointments

Other News & Events

• AHRQ toolkit helps hospitals improve antibiotic selection to reduce deadly C. difficile infections
• Alcohol screening questionnaire can help identify high-risk drinkers with increased postoperative health care use
• Automated quality measures can be used to improve asthma care
• Blacks less likely than whites to use either statins or aspirin in the prevention of cardiovascular disease
• Calcium from food linked to lower risk for prostate cancer
• Careful design of personal health records can improve the delivery of preventive care
• Combining strategies cuts hospitals’ healthcare-associated infection rates
• Deaf patients who use American Sign Language receive more preventive care if their clinician also uses sign language
• Delaying the control of blood pressure among middle-aged adults with diabetes
• Electronic health record-based medication monitoring improves patient compliance in primary care clinics
• Electronic standing orders increase delivery of preventive services
• Emergency department patients and visitors are most interested in education about stress and depression
• Fecal occult blood tests and followup need to be better targeted to healthy older adults
• Many minority patients do not receive or complete colorectal cancer screening tests in urban, primary care settings
• Patients who find it easy to access primary care are more likely to receive selected preventive services
• Prevention
• Primary Care
• Provision of personal digital assistants alone does not help providers avoid drug-drug interactions
• Quality improvement collaborative improves outcomes in children with inflammatory bowel disease
• Rotavirus was culprit in one-fourth of children's diarrhea-related emergency department visits prior to vaccine
• Stressed-out women may delay getting preventive care
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force updates vision screening recommendation for young children