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181. AHRQ News Now | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 30, 2024 - Date Sort ascending Top Story April 30, 2024 Health … Literacy–Informed Intervention Reduces Pediatric Caregiver Liquid Medication Dosing Errors April … Agency March 5, 2024 AHRQ Stats: Relationship Between Electronic Nicotine Use and General Health … Adults January 23, 2024 AHRQ Views Blog: A Milestone Investment in Training for Learning Health … Department Collaborates With Health System To Improve Mortality Surveillance October 24, 2023

182. The Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2018 - Improve communication and health literacy through Teach-Back. … Teach-Back � Improves commuication and health literacy. � Ensures the effective transfer of information … Teach-back is an evidence-based health literacy intervention that promotes patient engagement, patient … ’ health literacy. … While health literacy depends in part on individuals’ skills, it also depends on the complexity of health

183. CAHPS Survey Administration: What We Know and Potential Research Questions (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2017 - Department of Health and Human Services. … ............................................................................... 6 User-Friendly/Low-Literacy … User-Friendly/Low-Literacy Design Twenty nine percent of U.S. adults are estimated to have only basic …  User-Friendliness/Low Literacy Formatting—Preliminary results suggest that various user- friendly … Prim Health Care 2013;3. Blumberg SJ, Luke JV.

184. HHS Launches Spanish Language App to Help Latinos Navigate Health Care Questions, Issues New Report Highlighting Latino Coverage Issues | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2021 - the Latest Information on COVID-19 Press Release Date: October 8, 2021 Today, the Department of Health … Literacy Month, to improve health care access and equity for Latinos. … "Making health care easily accessible is critical to boosting health outcomes and getting more people … covered," said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. … The Biden-Harris Administration will continue to promote health equity and make health care accessible

185. Reducing Patient Falls with Evidence-based Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - Falls are a major public health problem. … routine care at the bedside about their risk for falling, using digital posters connected to electronic health … They also place laminated posters in patients’ rooms to engage patients across health literacy levels … AHRQ is committed to fostering the next generation of health services researchers who can focus on some … of the most important challenges facing our Nation's health care system.

186. Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: (pdf file)
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     January 18, 2017 - Some patients face additional challenges, such as limited health literacy. … by our second strategy, adopting “health literacy universal precautions.” … Speaking slowly is another important aspect of health literacy universal precautions. … Why not just do it for patients with limited health literacy? … Strategy used: health literacy universal precautions: use plain, nonmedical language.

187. Four Tips for Designing Web-Based Health Care Quality Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2022 - Initiatives About TalkingQuality Four Tips for Designing Web-Based Health … Johnson Foundation with direction provided by the Southern Institute on Children and Families. [ The Health … Literacy Style Manual (PDF, 3.80 MB)] Also in "Tips on Designing a Quality Report" First Design … Six Tips for Making a Quality Report Appealing and Easy To Skim Four Tips for Designing Web-Based Health … originally created February 2015 Internet Citation: Four Tips for Designing Web-Based Health

188. Plain Language at AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - Part of AHRQ's mission is to provide Americans with health information that people can easily understand … Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Plain Writing Plan https://www.hhs.gov/open/recordsandreports … /plainwritingact/index.html National Institutes of Health (NIH) Plain Language Training https://plainlanguage.nih.gov … Effective HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) https://www.cms.gov/WrittenMaterialsToolkit/ Health … Literacy Online https://health.gov/healthliteracyonline/ Page last reviewed

189. How To Decide on a Medium for a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2019 - Project Resources About TalkingQuality How To Decide on a Medium for a Health … Does a large segment of your audience have limitations or disabilities, such as vision loss or low literacy … Page originally created February 2015 Internet Citation: How To Decide on a Medium for a Health

190. A Call for Action to Achieve Health Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2021 - Events AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders A Call for Action to Achieve Health … systems, and has significant impacts on people’s health. … literacy. … care about the non-clinical drivers of health in their lives, such as SDOH. … improve public health and increase equity.

191. Quality Improvement in Primary Care: External Supports for Practices (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2014 - , with a focus on addressing social determinants of health. … J Contin Educ Health Prof 2010;30(2):114-25. … Visit the Web site for examples. http://www.ahrq.gov/health- assessments Health Literacy Universal … Assess your services for health literacy, raise staff awareness, and work on specific topic areas. … http://www.ahrq. gov/health-literacy-toolkit Lexicon for Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration

192. Delivering Quality Reports in Print | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2019 - EXAMPLE: A Brochure for Medicaid Beneficiaries Title: A Guide to Michigan Medicaid Health Plans: Quality … /documents/QualityCheckupJan03_59423_7.pdf Each year, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services … Dense reports, on the other hand, are seldom usable or desired by health care consumers. … This is particularly appropriate for health plan quality data. … It also may be helpful to lower-literacy audiences to have quality information integrated with other

193. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcarae Meeting (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2024 - Resources and Services Administration IHS Indian Health Service NIH/CC National Institutes of Health … National Coordinator for Health Information Technology SAMSHA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services … o Health Equity and Diagnostic Excellence: DLS published When Positive is Negative: Health Literacy … This manuscript describes how the use of systematic approaches that account for poor health literacy … o Development of a dashboard aligning the World Health Organization Primary Health Care framework for

194. Infographic Poster: Did you know...Patient safety issues in primary care are real. (pdf file)
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     July 12, 2018 - Improve communication and health literacy through Teach-Back.

195. Racial and Ethnic Minorities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 23, 2023 - literacy, and systemic racism and bias. … Health equity has been defined as the attainment of the highest level of health for all people, where … outcomes. 5 Social determinants of health are the nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes … Chartbook on Health Care for Blacks . AHRQ Social Determinants of Health website. … Notice: AHRQ Announces Interest in Health Services Research to Advance Health Equity (CLOSED).

196. Multiple Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - Education & Training Resources Multiple Settings Tools for Health … The surveys are available for different settings and health plans. … be customized with supplemental item sets, including, for example, patient-centered medical homes; health … literacy; interpreter services; health information technology; and children with chronic conditions. … Outcomes (ECHO ® — for behavioral health) Web: ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/echo Specialized

197. CAHPS Health Plan Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2024 - Get the Health Plan Survey 5.0 and 5.1 There are two versions of the Health Plan Survey: New: Health … Administering the CAHPS Health Plan Survey Guidance for using the CAHPS Health Plan Survey (ZIP, 2.5 … Health plan customer service. How people rated their health plan. … They address the following subjects: Health Literacy Children With Chronic Conditions People With … FAQs About the Health Plan Survey Why does the CAHPS Health Plan Survey ask respondents to continue

198. Key Driver 5: Engage with Patients and Families in Evidence-Based Care and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2018 - Drivers Key Driver 1: Seek Evidence Key Driver 2: Implement QI Key Driver 3: Optimize Health … with community resources to assist them in implementing evidence-based care plans and meeting their health … literacy and even more face significant challenges in understanding numbers and estimations of risk. … Practices that have electronic health records and registries will find them useful to identify affected … and the evidence is significant enough to require urgent action, practices experienced in population health

199. Grantees Focusing on Hispanic and Latino Populations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2021 - Priority Populations About Priority Populations Publications Resources Health … provide higher quality, more effectively accessible language interpretation services to improve the health … to introduce basic language and literacy skills in English and Spanish while promoting healthy routines … and digital health equity.” —  Carmela Alcantara, Ph.D., Columbia University New York Morningside … Department of Health & Human Services The White House USA.gov

200. Settings: Finding the Audience for a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2023 - Resources About TalkingQuality Settings: Finding the Audience for a Health … People whose health problems are most pressing and serious. … Your initial audience research should have identified all the places people go for health information … clinics, and other public health programs. … conducted either before or after some other event that people were already attending (e.g., before a literacy