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What's New Archive
August 18, 2008
This issue features innovations and QualityTools designed to improve the care of the elderly in hospitals, nursing homes and other settings. The innovations describe programs aimed at reducing conditions such as delirium and pressure ulcers experienced by the elderly in hospitals and nursing homes. The QualityTools describe best practices and quality improvement methods to care for the elderly.
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August 04, 2008
This issue features innovations and QualityTools designed to enhance patient safety. The innovations describe programs at local clinics and hospitals aimed at reducing medical and medication errors. The QualityTools present the latest patient safety information from national health care organizations.
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July 21, 2008
In this issue, the theme is preventing and managing infections acquired in health care settings. The featured innovations describe the bundling of evidence-based practices to reduce infections acquired in hospitals, especially intensive care units.
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July 07, 2008
In this issue, the featured topic focuses on the management of chronic illnesses. More than 90 million Americans live with a chronic illness and many live with more than one. Seventy-five percent of the nation's aggregate health care spending is devoted to treating chronic illnesses.
Health care providers and payers have responded to...
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June 23, 2008
In this issue, the featured innovations and QualityTools address health and health care disparities among vulnerable populations, which are defined by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geography, age, gender, and disability status.
The featured innovations describe initiatives to deliver health services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate to Latinos and...
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June 09, 2008
In this issue, the featured innovations address the topic of providing access to care to people in rural and community-based settings.
The featured innovations show how to extend specialty health care to rural and underserved populations by using telemedicine and health aides.
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May 26, 2008
In this issue, the featured innovations and QualityTools address the complex topic of managing chronic health conditions. An estimated 133 million people — or about one in two Americans — live with a chronic condition such as diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, or depression. Of that number, about half experience multiple chronic conditions.
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May 12, 2008
In this issue, we feature Innovations and QualityTools that address patient flow management. Improving patient flow in hospitals increases patient safety, access to care, patient and staff satisfaction, and revenue.
Overcrowding in hospitals can lead to bottlenecks in patient flow, delays in care, lack of continuity in care, and other inefficiencies.
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April 28, 2008
In this issue, we feature Innovations and QualityTools that address patient-centered care. In today's complex, fragmented, and volume-driven health care system, care has become centered around the system rather than the patient.
Patient-centered care, as the Institute of Medicine 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for...
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April 14, 2008
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange Web site! This issue includes 100 Innovation Profiles that provide windows into a wide range of creative efforts to improve health care delivery in different settings — hospitals, medical offices, nursing homes, community organizations, schools, workplaces, and patient homes. Start an exchange with the...
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Last updated: August 18, 2008.
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