What's New at the Health Care Innovation Exchange, NGC, and NQMC

Really Simple Syndication brings you the latest postings from three AHRQ-sponsored Web resources:

Health Care Innovation Exchange

A site designed to support health care professionals in sharing and adopting innovations that improve the delivery of care to patients.

• 4Parents.gov
• An Implementation Guide From the Childhood Obesity Action Network
• Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
• Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative Leads to Sustained Increases in Breastfeeding Among Low-Income Whites and Minorities
• Centralized Orthopedic Center and Streamlined Referral and Triage Processes Enhance Access to Appropriate Treatment
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Toolkit
• cleanyourhands© Campaign
• Comprehensive School-Based Program Increases Positive Health Behaviors and Reduces Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes Among Mexican-American and Other At-Risk Youth
• Coping Skills Training Helps Adolescents Improve Quality of Life and Ability to Manage Their Diabetes
• Group-Based, Culturally Sensitive Weight-Loss Program for Families Leads to Improvements in Children's Health-Related Behaviors and Declines in Body Mass Index
• Lab Tests Online
• Membership Program Provides Community-Dwelling Seniors With Access to Wide Array of Health and Social Services, Helping Them Remain in Their Homes
• National Children's Dental Health Month Campaign
• Pediatric Palliative Care Program Improves Communication, Reduces Patient Suffering, and Helps Parents Feel More Prepared for Child's End-of-Life Experience
• Plain Talk About Childhood Immunizations
• Real-Time Surgery Tracking Leads to Better Operating Room Utilization and Turnover, and Earlier Surgery Starts
• Treatments for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer
• What You Need to Know About Prenatal Infections

National Guideline Clearinghouse™

A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

• Substance misuse and alcohol use disorders. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Age-related changes in health. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Health care decision making. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Issues regarding sexuality. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Comprehensive assessment and management of the critically ill. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Dementia. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Family caregiving. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Managing oral hydration. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Nutrition. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Reducing adverse drug events. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Progestogen-only implants.
• Clinical practice guidelines for the management of blastomycosis: 2008 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
• Adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab for ankylosing spondylitis.
• Epoetin alfa, epoetin beta and darbepoetin alfa for cancer treatment-induced anaemia.

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™

A public repository for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets.

• Patient recovery period: percentage of patients undergoing a procedure with an anaesthetist in attendance, who have an unplanned post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) stay longer than two hours, during the time period under study.
• Post-operative period: percentage of patients receiving anaesthesia care having an unplanned admission to an intensive care or high dependency unit within 24 hours of a procedure with an anesthetist in attendance, during the time period under study.
• Post-operative period: percentage of patients who undergo a procedure with an anaesthetist in attendance, for which there is documented evidence of a post anaesthesia review, or other process as determined by the anaesthetic department, during the time period under study.
• Management of acute pain: percentage of patients receiving acute pain management who are satisfied with their current pain relief, during the time period under study.
• Management of acute pain: percentage of patients receiving acute pain management with analgesia adequate to allow acute rehabilitation (e.g., effective cough, mobilisation), during the time period under study.
• Management of acute pain: percentage of patients receiving acute pain management with pain intensity scores regularly recorded by nursing staff, during the time period under study.
• Management of acute pain: percentage of patients receiving acute pain management developing severe respiratory depression requiring naloxone administration during acute pain management, during the time period under study.
• Management of acute pain: percentage of patients receiving acute pain management developing severe hypotension, requiring an alteration to or change of analgesic technique, during acute pain management, during the time period under study.
• Management of acute pain: percentage of patients reporting nausea and vomiting whilst receiving prescribed antiemetic treatment when nausea and vomiting are present, during acute pain management, during the time period under study.
• Management of acute pain: percentage of nurses involved in the care of patients with acute pain who have received education regarding acute pain management, during the time period under study.
• Management of acute pain: percentage of nurses involved in the care of patients with acute pain who have read acute pain protocols, during the time period under study.
• Management of acute pain: percentage of patients having neuraxial, or plexus block analgesic technique, demonstrating neurological dysfunction three months post-procedure secondary to neuraxial technique or plexus block.
• Management of acute pain: percentage of patients receiving neuraxial blockade as part of their acute pain management who develop an epidural abscess or epidural haematoma following neuraxial blockade, during the time period under study.
• Day surgery anaesthesia care: percentage of patients receiving anaesthesia care as day-stay surgery patients who have received a pre-anaesthesia assessment before the day of day surgery, during the time period under study.
• Day surgery anaesthesia care: percentage of patients receiving anaesthesia care as day-stay surgery patients whose procedure is cancelled on the day of surgery for anaesthetic reasons other than an acute medical condition, during the time period under study.
• Day surgery anaesthesia care: percentage of patients receiving anaesthesia care as day-stay surgery patients with unplanned overnight admissions for anaesthetic reasons, during the time period under study.
• Day surgery anaesthesia care: percentage of patients receiving anaesthesia care as day-stay surgery patients who have an unplanned extension to the time between entry into the post-anaesthesia care unit to the meeting of hospital/day surgery discharge criteria, during the time period under study.
• Obstetric anaesthesia care: percentage of obstetric patients receiving epidural/spinal/combined spinal-epidural procedures who experience a post-dural puncture headache, during the time period under study.
• Obstetric anaesthesia care: percentage of patients undergoing lower segment Caesarean section (LSCS) who receive a general anaesthetic for LSCS, during the time period under study.
• Obstetric anaesthesia care: percentage of patients requiring immediate lower segment Caesarean section (LSCS) who deliver within 30 minutes of request for immediate LSCS, during the time period under study.
• Obstetric anaesthesia care: percentage of obstetric patients receiving epidural/spinal/combined spinal-epidural procedures in the labour ward for whom there is documented evidence of informed consent for labour ward epidural/spinal analgesia, during the time period under study.

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