This week's Healthcare 411 podcasts from AHRQ: Office Visits for High Cholesterol; Electronic Medical Records Prevent Medical Errors; How to Find a High-Quality Nursing Home.
Three new members have been appointed to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Susan Curry, Ph.D., of Iowa City; Joy Melnikow, M.D., M.P.H., of Sacramento; and Wanda Nicholson, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., of Baltimore.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released two new tools designed to protect and care for children who are in a hospital or a school during a public health emergency.
A new evidence-based tool can help medical office managers and clinicians assess how their staff views different areas of patient safety.
AHRQ has a new tool that is designed to help employers better estimate how to save money while still paying health care costs for employees who have diabetes.
People in the Northeastern U.S. are one-third more likely than those in the South or West to be hospitalized for treatment of brain cancer or to have brain cancer when they are hospitalized for another illness or complication.
Americans visited a hospital outpatient department or office-based provider for high cholesterol 300 percent more often in 2006 than they did in 1996.
Hospital associations in 10 states have been selected to participate in a program to test methods of reducing central-line associated blood stream infections in hospital intensive care units.
Hospital admissions for the uninsured increased by a third between 1997 and 2006, rising from 1.7 million to 2.2 million stays.
Spending for outpatient prescription painkillers and medicines that treat aches and pains increased from $4.2 billion in 1996 to $13.2 billion in 2006.
Medications that affect a person's metabolism by helping to lower cholesterol, control diabetes and control weight accounted for $38 billion of the $208.1 billion that American adults spent on medications in 2006.
Patients who have a clear understanding of their care plan after they are discharged from the hospital are 30 percent less likely to be readmitted or visit the emergency department than patients who lack this information.
Frigid temperatures, which each year cause hypothermia and other cold-related heath problems, resulted in more than 6,000 hospitalizations and 827 deaths in 2006.
Patients ages 30 to 74 who took atypical antipsychotics such as Risperdal, Seroquel, Zyprexa and Clozaril had a significantly higher risk of sudden death from cardiac arrhythmias and other cardiac causes than patients who did not take these medications.
The new Web site, called the Clinician-Consumer Health Advisory Information Network, links clinicians and consumers with therapeutics information to assist in clinical practice and health care decisionmaking.
About 10.9 million Americans under age 65 purchased individual (not through an employer) health insurance policies at some point in 2006, but only 7 million were covered by these policies for the full year.
Seven percent of adults and 19 percent of children taking chemotherapy drugs in outpatient clinics or at home were given the wrong dose or experienced other mistakes involving their medications.
Improved treatments for acid reflux disease, ulcers, arthritis and other conditions helped reduce hospital admission rates for internal bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract by 14 percent from 1998 to 2006.
Treating heart attack victims, opening clogged arteries and treating other common cardiovascular conditions cost U.S. hospitals $57.9 billion in 2006 "“ about 40 percent more than in 1997.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new pamphlet to help Spanish-speaking patients know what to expect and watch out for while using the blood thinner Coumadin®/warfarin.
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