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This report describes training programs and tools that health care providers, social workers, and facilities and their staff can use to provide better care for victims of domestic violence. Research funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has: identified gaps in research on domestic violence, indicating a need to build a stronger evidence base for screening, detecting, and treating victims ; helped health care providers screen for and identify victims of domestic abuse ; created tools that help providers counsel and treat victims and developed a tool that evaluates the quality of domestic violence programs.

Abused women --- Victims of crimes --- Battered Women. --- Domestic Violence --- Education, Continuing. --- Health Services Research. --- Quality Assurance, Health Care. --- Prevention. --- prevention & control. --- United States. --- Spouse Abuse.

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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has devoted significant funding to the creation of tools and resources that will help meet the needs of the U.S. health care system. This report briefly describes the tools and resources that AHRQ has made available, such as data sets, assessment and performance measures, clinical care guidelines, and quality measurement indicators. Examples of how these tools and resources are being used by federal, state, and local governments; private industry; health service providers; hospital associations; and health maintenance organizations to improve health care quality and help consumers make more informed choices are also provided.

Health services administrators --- Health planning --- Health Services Research. --- Databases as Topic. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Practice Guidelines as Topic. --- Quality of Health Care. --- Surveys and Questionnaires. --- United States Government Agencies. --- Standards --- United States.

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The report describes Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded research that helps to answer questions about prescription medicine. AHRQ research has identified conditions for which drug therapy is not necessary. It has discovered low-cost drug therapies that provide patients with the same quality of care as more expensive drugs. It has also revealed that sometimes the newest, most expensive drug therapy reduces costs overall because it keeps patients healthier and less likely to use other health care services. AHRQ has also finded research thatb investigated the cost effectiveness and safety of outpatient vs. inpatient services and the impact of preventive drug therapy.

Prescription pricing --- Chemotherapy --- Prescription, Drugs --- Drug Therapy --- Costs. --- Economic aspects --- economics. --- methods. --- United States. --- Prescription Drugs

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Medical informatics deals with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care. This report describes a select few of the computer systems that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has supported. These systems are relevant to the problems clinicians face, such as improving the quality of patient care and patient safety, preventing medical errors, reducing costs, helping patients manage their conditions, and minimizing the impact of bioterrorism.

Medicine --- Quality assurance --- Medical Informatics Applications. --- Quality Assurance, Health Care. --- Safety Management. --- Data processing. --- Medical care --- United States.