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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s publications offer practical information to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.
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AHRQ is undertaking activities to develop an effective and feasible approach for using all-payer claims databases(ACPD) to advance the goal of improving healthcare affordability, efficiency, and cost transparency, including developing this inventory of APCD-based measures.
Publication Number: 17(18)-0022-3-EF
Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, Technical Documentation summarizes the approach taken to create the list of U.S. health systems. This consolidated list is intended to be an initial resource for researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders who want to identify and describe systems with the ultimate goal of understanding how health systems can improve the cost and quality of healthcare.
Publication Number: 17-0047-EF
This toolkit, called the AHRQ QI Toolkit, is both a general guide to applying improvement methods in a hospital setting and a guide to improving performance specifically using the AHRQ QIs. The toolkit serves as a “how to” for the improvement process—from the first stage of self-assessment through the final stage of ongoing monitoring.
Publication Number: 17-0049
Esta información proviene de un informe de investigación que fue financiado por la AHRQ (Agencia para la Investigación y Calidad de la Atención Médica; AHRQ, por su sigla en inglés), una agencia del gobierno federal. Los investigadores revisaron 154 estudios de investigación acerca del tratamiento de la gota.
Publication Number: A1617-EHC017-B
Los coágulos son serios. Es importante saber los señales y conseguir tratado enseguida. Esta guía describe maneras de prevenir y de tratar coágulos; síntomas; y efectos secundarios de la medicación así como cuándo ir a la sala de urgencias.
Publication Number: 09-0067-C
This guide answers common questions about getting and taking medicines and has handy forms that will help patients keep track of information.
Publication Number: 11-0049-A
Este folleto le brinda consejos que puede aplicar antes, durante y después de su cita médica, para asegurarse de que recibe la mejor atención posible.
Publication Number: 10(11)-0094-B
Busque la tarjeta de bolsillo en la parte de atrás para llevar un mejor control de sus medicamentos.
Publication Number: 11-0049-B
This guide discusses management of insomnia disorder, a long-term condition in which a person has trouble sleeping. This consumer guide from the Effective Health Care program is greater than 3 years old. Findings should not be considered current.
Publication Number: A1517-EHC027-A
This is a summary of a systematic review that evaluated the recent evidence regarding the effects of omega-3 fatty acids, primarily from marine oil supplements, on clinical and selected intermediate cardiovascular outcomes (i.e., blood pressure, lipid concentrations) and the association of omega-3 fatty acids dietary intake and biomarkers with cardiovascular outcomes.
Publication Number: A17-EHC010-A