The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the September 28 issue of the Health Care Innovations Exchange. The featured Innovations describe two programs that led to increased use of smoking cessation resources and higher quit rates. The featured QualityTools provide practical approaches for treating tobacco dependence in the clinical setting and for achieving tobacco-free hospitals and health systems. More innovations and tools related to smoking cessation are available on the Innovations Exchange Web Site, which contains more than 650 searchable innovations and 1,625 searchable QualityTools.
Spotlight:
Systems Change: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
Based on the Public Health Service (PHS) Clinical Practice Guideline- 2008 Update
Thank you for joining AHRQ’s Health Care Innovations Exchange for a free Web Seminar on Linking Clinical Care and Communities for Improved Prevention on September 1, 2011. Event materials can be found here. New issues of the Innovations Exchange are published biweekly on Wednesdays. Please contact us at info@innovations.ahrq.gov with any questions or comments.
