How To Use This Web Site

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).


Navigational Tools

Search: Use keywords for topical index search of site
Browse: Select from subject list for selected documents on site
What's New: Recent uploads to Web site
Frequently Asked Questions: Access to AHRQ's most requested information


Content

About AHRQ
Budget & Mission (Budget Justification for Fiscal Year 2005/ Testimony on Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Request/ AHRQ Profile/Reauthorization Fact Sheet)
Strategic Plan (AHRQ Strategic Plan/Performance Plans for FY 2004 and 2005
Organization & Contacts (Key Contacts/National Advisory Council Overview/Offices & Centers)
Nursing Research
Map and Directions to AHRQ
Events & Announcements
AHRQ Job Vacancies


News & Information
Newsroom (Press Releases/Fact Sheets/Testimony, Speeches, Interviews/Press Office Contacts)
State & Local Policymakers (User Liaison Program)
Publications & Products (Publications Catalog/InstantFAX/Electronic Catalog)
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/U.S. 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/Understanding Your Body)
Health Plans (Choosing and Using a Health Plan/Checkup on Health Insurance Choices)
Prescriptions (Your Medicine: Play It Safe)
Prevention & Wellness (Pocket Guide to Good Health for Children/Pocket Guide to Good Health for Adults/Staying Healthy at 50+/What You Should Know about Stroke Prevention)
Quality of Care (Five Steps to Safer Health Care/20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors/Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care)
Quit Smoking (You Can Quit Smoking)
Surgery (Be Informed: Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before You Have Surgery)
Información en español (Documents available in Spanish)


Funding Opportunities
Overview (Funding Opportunities)
Grant Announcements (Request for Applications/Ongoing Program Announcements)
Peer Review at AHRQ
Grant Award Resources
Policy Notices (Agency 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/Child Health Advisory Group/Child Health Toolbox)
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/Excellence Centers To Eliminate Ethnic/Racial Disparities: EXCEED)
Research Activities: Online Newsletter
Fact Sheets / Syntheses
Topics:
(Elderly Healthcare/Healthcare Costs/Long-Term Care/Managed Care/Markets/Mental Health/Methods/Primary Care/Rural Health)


Quality Assessment
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™
CAHPS®: Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS® Fact Sheet/Questionnaires: Download)
Measuring Healthcare Quality (Q-SPAN: Expanding and Improving Quality of Care Measures)
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)
Quality Indicators (Quality Indicators: Download/Prevention Quality Indicators: Download)
QuIC—Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC Fact Sheet/Report to the President on Medical Errors/QuIC Web Site)


Data & Surveys
MEPS—Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS Web Site, Fact Sheets)
HCUP—Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (Overview/HCUPnet/Nationwide Inpatient Sample—NIS/State Inpatient Databases—SID/State Ambulatory Surgery Databases—SASD/Kids' Inpatient Database—KID/Clinical Classifications Software: Download)
HIV & AIDS Costs & Use (HCSUS Fact Sheet)
Healthcare Informatics Standards (Federal Health Care Informatics Standards Activities/A Compendium of Selected Public Health Data Sources)


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