Innovations
Annual Drive-Through Clinic Enhances Access to Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccinations for Seniors 5/7/2014Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Florida enhances access to influenza and pneumococcal vaccines by sponsoring a "drive-through" program each fall for seniors.
Assessment Tool Helps Clinicians Understand and Address Quality-of-Life Concerns for Those With Diabetes, Generating Positive Feedback From Clinicians and Patients 5/7/2014Before seeing their provider, patients with diabetes complete an easy-to-use assessment tool that helps identify and address their biggest quality-of-life concerns, generating overwhelmingly positive feedback from patients and clinicians.
Bicultural, Youth Development Program for At-Risk Latino Families Enhances Overall Health, Teen Birth Control Use, and Family Communication5/7/2014A multidisciplinary team of bilingual providers helps Latino youth and their parents access culturally appropriate resources and coaches the youth to avoid risky behaviors, leading to increased use of birth control, reduced incidence of depression, enhanced overall self-reported health status among youth, and improved communication skills and greater awareness of and comfort with available community resources among parents.
Breast Examination Center Assists Low-Income, Minority Women in Accessing Colorectal Cancer Screening 5/7/2014An inner-city breast examination center serving low-income, minority women educates patients about colorectal cancer screening and assists them in getting a colonoscopy screening test, leading to enhanced interest in and access to such screening.
Community Cancer Coalition Employs Navigators Who Enhance Access to Free Colonoscopy Screening for Uninsured Rural Patients 5/7/2014A community cancer coalition employs navigators who work with community health centers in rural areas to identify those in need of colorectal cancer screening via colonoscopy and facilitate access to such screening, leading to more referrals and screenings and to more cancers and precancerous polyps being detected and treated.
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QualityTools
A Guide to Choosing and Adapting Culturally and Linguistically Competent Health Promotion Materials 5/7/2014This 12-page guide aims to assist local and community organizations in making appropriate choices among existing materials and provides recommendations for adapting such materials for use in health promotion efforts.
The guide also includes additional resources on the following topics:
Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Volume 1—Series Overview and Methodology 5/7/2014The guide also includes additional resources on the following topics:
- General health promotion
- Assessing materials for low-literacy readers
- Alternative formats for people with disabilities
- Creation of materials for diverse populations on a variety of health issues
This report (the first volume in a series) provides an overview of methods and theoretical underpinnings of the quality improvement field of study.
Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Volume 3—Hypertension Care 5/7/2014The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored a critical analysis of the existing literature on quality improvement (QI) strategies for hypertension care, to bring data to bear on QI opportunities. This report aims to help readers assess whether a QI strategy might work in their practice or patient population.
Common Ground: Public Health Preparedness Toolkit 5/7/2014The Common Ground Project was designed to assist chronic disease and preparedness departments in public health agencies by documenting and defining business processes common to each of them and identifying the requirements for information systems that would support these processes.
Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity 5/7/2014This toolkit is intended to help primary care practices link to community resources for improving the care of patients struggling with obesity.
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