Public Agenda was commissioned by United Hospital Fund to conduct focus groups on what parents of low-income children in the New York City metro area think about screening for social determinants of health at their pediatrician's office. Although parents had some reservations about discussing...
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Powering-Up Primary Care Teams: Advanced Team Care With In-Room Support
Primary care teams are underpowered. Teams do not maximally redistribute team functions when clinicians are diverted from activities where they add the most value. This commentary describes "advanced team care with in-room support" as a way to "power-up" primary care teams. In this core team ...
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Organizational Health Literacy: Quality Improvement Measures with Expert Consensus
Abstract
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Organizational health literacy (OHL) is the degree to which health care organizations implement strategies to make it easier for patients to understand health information, navigate the health care system, engage in the health care process, and manage their ...
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Ten tips for advancing a culture of improvement in primary care
Embracing practice-based quality improvement (QI) represents one way for clinicians to improve the care they provide to patients while also improving their own professional satisfaction. But engaging in care redesign is challenging for clinicians. In this article, we describe our experience over...
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Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care
American Academy of Pediatrics Preventative Care Priodicity Guideline.
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Planning and Implementing Screening and Brief Intervention for Risky Alcohol Use
Like hypertension or tobacco screening, alcohol screening and brief intervention (alcohol SBI) is a clinical preventative service. It identifies and helps patients who may be drinking too much. It involves:
- A validated set of screening questions to identify patients' drinking...
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Addressing Alcohol Use: Practice Manual
Risky alcohol use, defined as any level of alcohol consumption which increases the risk of harm to oneself or others, is both a substance use disorder and medical issue. Recognized as one of the leading preventable causes of death, risky alcohol use leads to over 88,000 deaths each year in the...
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AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
Introduction
To successfully manage their health, people must be able “to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.” Known as health literacy, this ability involves using reading, writing, verbal,...
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Intimate Partner Violence Screening
Nearly 1 in 6 pregnant women in the U.S. have been abused by a partner.
Women who experience intimate partner violence prior to and during pregnancy are at increased risk of low maternal weight gains, infections, high blood pressure and are more likely to...
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The Primary Care PTSD Screen (PC-PTSD)
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is associated with increased health care utilization, medical morbidity, and tobacco and alcohol use. Consequently, screening for PTSD has become increasingly common in primary care clinics, especially in Veteran healthcare settings where...
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