Following are brief explanations of the navigational tools available and listings of the major categories and subcategory offerings (with highlighted products on the AHRQ Web site).
About
AHRQ
Budget
& Mission (Budget Justification
for Fiscal Year 2001/Testimony on Fiscal
Year 2001 Budget Request/AHRQ Profile)
Strategic Plan (AHRQ
Strategic Plan/Performance Plans
for FY 2000 and 2001
Organization & Contacts (Offices
& Centers/Key Contacts/National
Advisory Council Overview)
Map and Directions to AHRQ
AHRQ Job Vacancies
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News
& Information
Newsroom
(Press Releases/Fact
Sheets/Testimony, Speeches, Interviews/Press
Office Contacts)
State & Local Policymakers (User Liaison
Program: Program Description)
Publications & Products (Publications
Catalog/Documents Available Through InstantFAX)
FOIA Reading Room (Freedom
of Information Act)
Electronic
Policies (Copyright/Linking/Privacy)
Clinical
Information
Evidence-based
Practice (Evidence-based Practice Centers/Evidence
Reports/Technical Reviews)
Outcomes & Effectiveness (Fact
Sheet/The Outcome of Outcomes Research/CERTS)
Technology Assessment (Technology
Assessments/Technology Reviews)
Preventive Services (Put
Prevention Into Practice/US Preventive
Services Task Force)
Clinical Practice Guidelines (National
Guideline Clearinghouse™/Guidelines
online)
Consumer
Health
Health Conditions/Diseases
(Now You Have a Diagnosis: What’s Next?/
Common Uterine Conditions: Options for Treatment/Pneumonia:
More Patients May Be Treated at Home)
Consumer Versions of Clinical Practice Guidelines
(By Condition)
Health Plans (Choosing and Using a Health Plan/Checkup
on Health Insurance Choices)
Prescriptions (Prescription Medicines and You)
Prevention & Wellness (Child Health Guide/Personal
Health Guide/Staying Healthy at 50+/What
You Should Know about Stroke Prevention)
Quality of Care (20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical
Errors/Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health
Care: Summary)
Quit Smoking (Help for Smokers: Ideas to Help You Quit/You Can Quit Smoking/First
Time Quitters/Multiple Quit Attempts/Pregnancy
and Smoking/Smokers Facing Surgery)
Surgery (Be Informed: Questions to Ask Your
Doctor Before You Have Surgery/Pain
Control After Surgery)
Información en español
Funding
Opportunities
Overview
(Funding Opportunities)
Grant Announcements (Request
for Applications/Ongoing
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Requests/Grant Issues)
Contract Solicitations
Research Training Grants (Programs/Tools
and Resources/Dissertation Questions
& Answers/Trend Data)
Research
Findings
Child
and Adolescent Health (Funded Projects/State
Children's Health Insurance Program/Supporting
Research that Improves Health Care for Children and Adolescents/Child
Health Advisory Group)
Women's Health (Women's
Health Highlights/Breast Cancer Research Highlights/Health
Care for Minority Women)
Minority Health (Addressing
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care/Improving
Health Care for Ethnic and Racial Minority Populations)
Research Activities: Online
Newsletter (New projects and initiatives/findings/products)
Translating Research Into Practice: Fact Sheets
(Reducing Errors in Health Care/Improving
Care for People With Coronary Artery Disease/Health
Services Research on Aging)
Topics
(Elderly
Healthcare/Healthcare Costs/Long-Term
Care/Managed Care/Markets/Mental
Health/Methods/Primary
Care/Rural Health)
Quality Assessment
CAHPS®: Consumer Assessment of Health Plans
(CAHPS® Fact Sheet/Questionnaires:
Download)
CONQUEST—Computerized
Needs-Oriented Quality Measurement (CONQUEST
Summary: Download)
Measuring Healthcare Quality (Q-SPAN:
Expanding and Improving Quality of Care Measures/Foundation
for Accountability Abstracts)
Medical Errors & Patient Safety (Fact
Sheet/20 Tips to Help Prevent
Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet/Medical Errors:
The Scope of the Problem)
Quality Information & Improvement (Americans
as Health Care Consumers: The Role of Quality Information/Case
Studies from the Quality Improvement Support System/Theory
and Reality of Value-Based Purchasing)
QuIC—Quality Interagency Coordination Task
Force (QuIC Fact Sheet/Report
to the President on Medical Errors/QuIC Web
Site)