Joel E. Cohen, Ph.D., directs a staff of health economists, statisticians, social scientists, clinicians, and support staff conducting intramural and supporting extramural research on issues related ...

Review the following list of meetings in which falls risk and prevention is potentially discussed by the interdisciplinary team. For every meeting that occurs at your facility, indicate the type of ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), announced nine grant awards of $1 million each for up to 5 years to support ...

Many organizations are uncertain about how to proceed with designing a workable solution for medication reconciliation. This chapter provides helpful information and tools for designing or redesigning ...

Teaching in the health care setting. Using coaching as an alternative approach to teaching in the health care setting. Overview of coaching. Benefits of coaching. Characteristics of a good coach. A ...

Address correspondence to: Michael Pignone, M.D., M.P.H.; 5039 Old Clinic Building; UNC Hospitals; Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7110; E-mail: pignone@med.unc.edu This article originally appeared in the ...

Sponsored by the Public Health Service, the 2008 Update to the Clinical Practice Guideline presents evidenced-based guidelines for clinicians to use when treating their patients who use tobacco. The ...

Managing chronic illness and changing behavior are challenging and take time for both providers and patients. Yet, often it is chronically ill patients who are called on to manage the broad array of ...

A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it. Therefore, fall rates and fall prevention practices must be counted and tracked as one component of a ...

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The aim of this module is to support your efforts to use best practices as outlined in the Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit in your hospital’s Fall Prevention Program.

The most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage in the United States. MEPS is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals and their ...