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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s publications offer practical information to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.

Advances in Patient Safety and Medical Liability
This publication presents contributions and findings from AHRQ-funded projectsfrom the Patient Safety and Medical Liability (PSML) Initiative to help States and health systems seek comprehensive solutions that improve patient safety and address the underlying causes of the malpractice problem.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 17-0017-EF
Spanish Consumer Guide: Tratamiento para el trastorno del apetito desenfrenado.
This consumer guide from the Effective Health Care program is greater than 3 years old. Findings should not be considered current.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1517-EHC030-B
Spanish Consumer Guide: Tratamiento del hemangioma infantil en ninos.
This consumer guide is greater than 3 years old. Findings should not be considered current.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1617-EHC002-B
Spanish Consumer Guide: Si tiene que hacerse una biopsia del seno
This consumer guide from the Effective Health Care program is greater than 3 years old. Findings may be used for research purposes, but should not be considered current.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1417-EHC040-B
Consumer Guide - Managing Gout: A Review of the Research for Adults
This guide from the Effective Health Care Program presents treatment options for gout. Researchers looked at 154 research studies on treating gout.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1617-EHC017-A

A Summary of the First Annual Workshop of AHRQ’s Comparative Health System Performance Initiative
AHRQ and the Coordinating Center of the Comparative Health System Performance Initiative held a workshop September 29, 2016, to share learning and advance the initiative’s research agenda. This document summarizes the workshop content and identifies next steps.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 17-0018-EF

Behavioral Programs To Help Manage Type 2 Diabetes: A Review of the Research for Adults
This summary from the Effective Health Care program discusses what researchers have found about behavioral programs to help manage type 2 diabetes. It does not cover specific treatments. The summary is greater than 3 years old. Findings may be used for research purposes but should not be considered current.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1617-EHC031-A

Behavioral Programs To Help Manage Type 1 Diabetes: A Review of the Research for Children,Teens,and Adults
This summary from the Effective Health Care program discusses what researchers have found about behavioral programs to help manage type 1 diabetes. It does not cover specific treatments. The summary is greater than 3 years old. Findings may be used for research purposes but should not be considered current.
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1617-EHC005-A

Workforce Configurations to Provide High-Quality, Comprehensive Primary Care
To inform the development of effective, new models of workforce configuration to meet the growing need for primary care, AHRQ commissioned eight case examples of exemplar primary care practices to explore the delivery of comprehensive, high-quality primary care. This project presents findings on how to configure and pay for the workforce that is needed to deliver fully comprehensive, high-quality primary care across the U.S. population.
Publication Date: Publication Number: 16(17)-0046
Spanish Consumer Guide - Medicamentos para tratar el trastorno por consumo de alcohol
Investigadores financiados por la AHRQ (Agencia para la Investigación y la Calidad de la Atención Médica; AHRQ, por su sigla en inglés), una agencia de investigación del gobierno federal, revisaron estudios acerca de los medicamentos para tratar la dependencia de alcohol y el trastorno por consumo de alcohol publicados entre enero de 1970 y octubre de 2013. El informe incluyó 135 estudios y fue revisado por profesionales de la atención médica, investigadores, expertos y el público..
Publication Date: Publication Number: A1417-EHC029-B