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AHRQ Offers Interactive Tool To Analyze National and State Health Care Data
Mining for specific data on health care quality and disparities in the U.S.? It’s an easy process with AHRQ’s NHQRDRnet online query system, which features data from the 2010 National Healthcare Quality Report and the National Healthcare Disparities Report. At the State and national level, you’ll find quality-of-care data on clinical conditions ranging from asthma and diabetes to heart disease and cancer. You can review data by specific age groups as well as by race, ethnicity, income, and education. Using NHQRDRnet’s search tool, you can locate data tables based on selected words, chapters, or type of table. Select to access AHRQ’s NHQRDRnet system.

New Ad Campaign Urges Patients To Consider Medical Treatment Options
AHRQ announced a new multimedia ad campaign, ““Explore Your Treatment Options,” to encourage patients to become more informed about their options before choosing a treatment for a health condition or illness. The goal of this campaign is to increase consumers’ involvement in their care by providing easy access to unbiased information about treatment options and tools to encourage patients to work with their doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other clinicians to make health care decisions. It features television, radio, print, web and outdoor ads that encourage consumers to visit AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program Web site to find plain-language guides that summarize the scientific evidence on treatments for numerous medical conditions, including diabetes, osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and more. As part of the campaign, AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program Web site features personal stories from patients with chronic conditions who achieved better health results by exploring their treatment options. In addition, a new Health Priorities Snapshot tool features questions about common daily activities and allows users to rate the importance of quality-of-life concerns. Patients can print out a list of their own health priorities and share it with their clinicians during medical appointments. Select to read our press release and select to access the tools.

Health Care Quality and Disparities
The quality of health care in the United States continues to improve, but health care disparities still persist for many. Click here for the podcast or transcript.

Are you at risk for high blood pressure?
High blood pressure is a serious issue that can cause life-threatening conditions. The latest data from AHRQ show about one in every four American adults has high blood pressure. For the podcast or transcript, go to: http://healthcare411.ahrq.gov/radiocastseg.aspx?id=1186&type=seg.