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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s publications offer practical information to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.
Chartbook on Access to Health Care
This Access to Health Care chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report. This chartbook includes a summary of disparities across measures of access to healthcare and figures illustrating select measures of access to healthcare.A PowerPoint version is also available that users can download for presentations.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16-0015-5-EF
Chartbook on Healthy Living
This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of healthy living from the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reprot and figures illustrating select measures of healthy living. A PowerPoint version is also available that users can download for presentations.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16-0015-3-EF
This checklist helps clinicians meet the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services criteria for a lung cancer screening counseling and shared decisionmaking visit.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16-EHC007-11
The study found that people were 16 to 20 percent less likely to die from lung cancer when screened with LDCT, as compared with standard screening chest x-rays. The mortality reduction is equivalent to three lung cancer deaths prevented per 1,000 people screened with three annual LDCT screens over 6.5 years. Previous studies had shown that screening with standard chest x-rays does not reduce the mortality rate from lung cancer. An overall reduction in mortality was also observed (about five in 1,000 fewer total deaths for individuals receiving LDCT rather than a chest x-ray).
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16-EHC007-10
This patient decision aid discusses lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16-EHC007-12-A
This patient decision aid in Spanish discusses lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A16-EHC007-12-B
Chartbook on Patient Safety
This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of patient safety from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of patient safety. A PowerPoint version is also available that users can download for presentations.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 17-0037-EF
This tool assists healthcare professionals discuss the benefits and harms of lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16-EHC007-13-A
This tool in Spanish assists healthcare professionals discuss the benefits and harms of lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A16-EHC007-13-B
Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families
To promote stronger patient engagement, AHRQ has developed a guide to help patients, families, and health professionals in primary care settings work together as partners to improve care.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 13-0001