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  • AHRQ pump clots (18 Mar 2010 14:31)

    ... than those who used clopidogrel alone, according to a new study supported by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National The study also ...

  • Don't make Heartwell a safety scapegoat (18 Mar 2010 16:34)

    ... electronic health records, we will have better health care. As the definition from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality states so eloquently: “Quality health care means doing the right thing at the right ...

  • Health Highlights: March 18, 2010 (18 Mar 2010 20:16)

    ... percent of the total increase in hospital costs, according to the latest from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Significant Decline in Reported TB Cases: CDC The number of reported tuberculosis cases in ...

  • As the nation focuses on quality and cost of health care, AMA-convened PCPI celebrates milestone and looks to future (18 Mar 2010 20:33)

    ... American Board of Medical Specialties and member-boards, experts in methodology and data collection, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and CMS. Speakers at the PCPI meeting include AHRQ Director Carolyn Clancy, M.D. ...

  • How to drive down health-care costs: treat people like dogs (18 Mar 2010 17:50)

    ... too, is treating people like customers instead of like patients. , produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which get at the fact that people rarely ask their doctors enough questions ...

  • More shoppers rely on nutrition labels (13 Mar 2010 07:14)

    For the first time, more than half of shoppers (54 percent) told interviewers for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 2008 Health and ...

  • HMC: Hospitals Lose $2 Million in Errors Yearly (16 Mar 2010 12:52)

    ... of patients, a 200-bed hospital can potentially save $2 million each year. Using federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) indicators, HMC has analyzed the performance of hundreds of facilities ranging in size ...

  • Health Highlights: March 16, 2010 (16 Mar 2010 15:17)

    ... of serious heart problems, according to the study, which was supported by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. For this study, Vanderbilt University Medical ...

  • Drug Safety Challenges Persist, Despite New FDA Clout, Funds (13 Mar 2010 02:35)

    ... when it comes to Medicare drug spending, according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In 2007, the most recent year for which data are available, purchases of ...

  • Study: E-Prescriptions Cut Medication Errors (17 Mar 2010 12:57)

    ... at diverse sites, and with multiple systems." The study was funded by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. SOURCE: Journal of General Internal Medicine, online February 26, 2010. ...

  • We need to make cancer medicines affordable (17 Mar 2010 17:13)

    ... unnecessary care and make consumers more responsible, makes sense in some situations. But the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has found that the burden of cost sharing falls most heavily on the poor ...

  • DNA Test May Cut Hospitalizations Caused by Blood Thinner (16 Mar 2010 14:01)

    ... tested, that more than compensates for the cost of genotyping," he said. The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality explains the SOURCE: American College of Cardiology, news release, March 16, 2010 ...

  • Vitamin and mineral supplements haven't proved effective in preventing disease (16 Mar 2010 07:19)

    ... beta carotene. -- Osteoporosis. In a recent comprehensive review of 167 studies, the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that calcium and Vitamin D pills reduced fractures and bone loss, although the ...

  • E-prescriptions cut medication errors: study (16 Mar 2010 19:56)

    ... "should be performed with more providers, at diverse sites, and with multiple systems." federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality SOURCE: Journal of General Internal Medicine, online February 26, 2010. ...

  • Wound Care: Pressure Ulcer Best Practices (17 Mar 2010 17:57)

    ... larger number of microorganisms than a contaminated wound. According to clinical guidelines from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), stage 2, 3 and 4 pressure ulcers should all be considered as colonized ...

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