What's New This Week

The QualityTools Web site, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is updated regularly. The new tools are listed alphabetically by developer. To view a new Tool Summary, click on the tool title. To view a complete list of tools available at QualityTools, use the Tool Index.

March 3, 2008

Boston Medical Center

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Clinical Pathway

National Academy for State Health Policy

State Health Policy Survey Report: 2007 Guide to State Adverse Event Reporting Systems

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Improving Chlamydia Screening: Strategies from Top Performing Health Plans

Patient Safety Authority-Commonwealth of PA

Preventing Wrong-Site Surgery Toolkit

Society of Hospital Medicine

Ideal Discharge of Heart Failure Patients: A Hospitalist Checklist

University of California, San Francisco

Consumer Financial Incentives: A Decision Guide For Purchasers

QualityTools Spotlight

This week QualityTools spotlights tools related to congestive heart failure (CHF), or heart failure. CHF is a condition in which the heart can't pump enough blood to the body's other organs. It is very common and can be a serious, long-term condition. According to the American Heart Association, more than 5 million Americans are living with heart failure, and 550,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. See the newly published tools from the Boston Medical Center and the Society of Hospital Medicine that can help providers manage patients with heart failure.

Coming Soon: A New Home for QualityTools

QualityTools is moving to the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange (http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov), a new program designed to support health care professionals in identifying, sharing, and adopting innovations and tools that improve health care quality.

This is the last publication cycle for this site. QualityTools will remain available at this location until April. During this time, no additional tools will be posted, but the present tool collection will still be available.

In early April, AHRQ will launch the Innovations Exchange Web site with a new searchable database of innovations and tools. The database will include the complete QualityTools collection as well as new tools, which we will continue to add.

Subscribers to the QualityTools weekly email list will automatically be carried over to the Innovations Exchange distribution list. To add yourself to this list or manage your subscription, visit http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/contact_us.aspx. 

Save the date! AHRQ's 2008 Annual Conference

September 7-10 (Bethesda, MD): Learn about AHRQ's latest research aimed at improving quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of care from leading experts involved in AHRQ-sponsored research and implementation projects. More details coming soon.

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