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In an effort to make our web site more useful and easy to navigate, the New England Clinicians Forum has reviewed the data regarding the pages visitors to our site most commonly view. Quality issues consistently topped the list and so we decided to create a special space where anyone interested in any quality-related topic on our web site would be able to go to locate information and resources of any kind.

Below you can find a breakdown of all quality-related materials which is a link to that page on the site where these particular resources reside. We hope that you will find this new feature helpful and welcome any suggestions you might have that would make it more so.

Newest Quality of Care Articles
5/9/2008 Practice-based evidence study design for comparative effectiveness research
4/30/2008 Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
4/23/2008 HRSA Unveils Free Online Health Literacy Training for Health Professionals
4/7/2008 Tips for Taking Medicines Safely by Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D
4/4/2008 Where Medical Errors Occur & Steps You Can Take to Avoid Them by Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.
4/2/2008 Facing the Facts—Get Involved to Get Better Care by Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.
3/31/2008 Health Care Quality: Take A Closer Look by Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.
3/28/2008 Becoming an Involved Health Care Consumer By Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.
3/24/2008 AHRQ Launches a New Series of Advice Columns for Consumers
3/10/2008 Issue Brief Examines Efforts to Ensure That Children Receive Mandated Oral Health Services


Quality of Care
Featured Articles

Practice-based evidence study design for comparative effectiveness research

HRSA Unveils Free Online Health Literacy Training for Health Professionals

Tips for Taking Medicines Safely by Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D

Where Medical Errors Occur & Steps You Can Take to Avoid Them by Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.

Health Care Quality: Take A Closer Look by Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.

Conference: The Road to Affordability: Models to Control Health Care Costs and Improve Quality

New Certification Program in Public Health Launched

Mistake-Proofing the Design of Health Care Processes

Center of Excellence for Health Professions Development

Practicing Medicine - Improving How We Think and Act

Commonwealth Fund Releases Score Card on State Health System Performance

Two New Works on the Prevention of Medication Errors

Web Resource Demonstrates Variety of Approaches for Health Care Quality Report Cards

Celebrating Quality at HRSA

Between You and Your Pharmacist - HHS Issues Report to Congress on e-Prescribing

Study Demonstrates Uninsured Get Poorer Quality Healthcare at CHCs

NEJM Article on Health Disparities Collaboratives Outcomes

Health Literacy Resources

AHRQ-Funded Study on Compliance With Well-Child Visits

A New Tool to Assess the Literacy of Your Patients

New Report on Health Literacy and Patient Safety from JCAHO

Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Quality Improvement in Medicaid Managed Care Toolkit

HRSA Releases New Chartbook on Rural Health

Promoting Healthy Development Survey Implementation Manual

Commonwealth Fund Releases Reports on Cultural Competency and Quality of Care

Re-imagining Well Child Care

AHRQ and UHF to Distribute the Latest Clinical Prevention Recommendations

AHRQ Launches Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS)

Patient and Family Centered Care in the Emergency Department

BPHC's Lower Extremity Amputation Prevention (LEAP) Program Web Site

National Assessment of Adult Health Literacy: Understanding the Results and Implications

2005 National Healthcare Quality Report's State Snapshots

New Study Looks at Clinicians' Willingness to Disclose Medical Errors

IOM Releases New Brief on Preventing Medication Errors

IOM Issues New Recommendations on Preterm Birth

Creating Community-Responsive Physicians

The Origins of the Evidence-Based Approach to Medicine

Surgeon General Introduces “My Family Health Portrait”

Characteristics of Clinical Decision Support Systems That Improve Care

AHRQ Issues Annual Quality Report

New Article on Quality of and Barriers to Pediatric Primary Care

New Article on Disparities in Primary Care for Vulnerable Children Published

AHRQ Creates New Database on Patient Safety

IOM Committee Report Makes the Case for Performance Measurements

CHC’s Medical Directors’ Training and Leadership Style Matter!!

A Guide to Incorporating Cultural Competency into Medical Education and Training

Issue Brief on Overcoming Language Barriers

Assessing the Downside of Patient Safety Advisories

Are Graduating Residents Ready to Provide Cross-Cultural Care?

Starting Point to Highlight Gaps in Quality Measurement for Children

New Program Promotes Patient Self-Management of Care

Physicians Are Still Not Involved In Quality Improvement Study Shows

New Call Issued to Set Explicit Goals for Patient Safety by 2010

Study Finds Delivery of Preventive Services to Older Americans is Suboptimal

Health Disparities Collaborative Equivalency Information

Evidence-Based Nursing

AHRQ Announces a Major Step in Improving Quality of Care

A HRSA State Planning Grant Update Reviews Strategies for Covering the Uninsured

Cultural Competence: A Systematic Review of Health Care Provider Educational Interventions

Providing Language Services in Small Health Care Provider Settings: Examples From the Field

CT Community Health Center Nurse Interviewed as RWJ Executive Nurse Fellow

Creating A State Minority Health Policy Report Card

Health Literacy's Ethical Implications and How to Address It

AHRQ Releases Latest Edition of “Preventable Hospitalizations”

Organization Warns Against Medication Errors Abroad

Cultural Competency in Clinical Psychiatry

New Guidelines on Pediatric Blood Pressure Issued

National Guideline Clearinghouse

DHHS Retracts Altered Health Disparities Report

Online Self-Assessment Program with CME Option

Primary Care Research Newsletter Available

Patient Satisfaction Surveys Available from CRAN of Region III

Commonwealth Fund Study Indicates Greater Need for Training in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

CPSC Creates New Database to Dispense Safety Information and Resources


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