The Guide to Community Preventive Services
The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Author: Task Force on Community Preventive Services

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-02-17

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 0199759782

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The gold standard for evidence-based public health, The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a primary resource to improve health and prevent disease in states, communities, independent, nonfederal Task Force on Community Preventive Services, The Guide uses comprehensive systemic review methods to evaluate population-oriented health interventions. The recommendations of the Task Force are explicitly linked to the scientific evidence developed during systematic reviews. This volume examines the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to combat such risky behaviors as tobacco use, physical inactivity, and violence; to reduce the impact and suffering of specific conditions such as cancer, diabetes, vaccine-preventable diseases, and motor vehicle injuries; and to address social determinants oh health such as education, housing, and access to care. The chapters are grouped into three broad categories: changing risk behaviors; reducing specific diseases, injuries, and impairments; and methodological background for the book itself.

Making Health Care Safer
Making Health Care Safer

Author:

Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13:

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"This project aimed to collect and critically review the existing evidence on practices relevant to improving patient safety"--P. v.

Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies
Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 9264805907

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This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

The Canadian Guide to Clinical Preventive Health Care
The Canadian Guide to Clinical Preventive Health Care

Author: Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination

Publisher: Canadian Government Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 1088

ISBN-13:

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This book is designed to serve as a practical guide to clinicians, health professionals, professional associations and health care planners in determining the inclusion or exclusion, content and frequency of a wide variety of preventive health interventions. Topics covered are: prenatal and perinatal preventive care; pediatric preventive care; immunization of children and adults; preventive dental care; disorders of the genitourinary tract; prevention of psychosocial illness and diseases of lifestyle; metabolic/nutritional disorders; circulatory disorders; other infectious diseases; neoplasms; and, conditions affecting primarily the elderly.

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services

Author: U. S. Preventive Services Task Force

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1993-05

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781568062976

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A report on recommended clinical preventive services that should be provided to patients in the course of routine clinical care, including screening for vascular, neoplastic and infectious diseases, and metabolic, hematologic, ophthalmologic and ontologic, prenatal, and musculoskeletal disorders. Also, mental disorders and substance abuse, counseling, and immunizations/chemoprophylaxis. Tables.

Health Promotion and Wellness
Health Promotion and Wellness

Author: Cheryl Hawk

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2013-01-24

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1469828766

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Health Promotion and Wellness is designed to provide health care providers with both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills they need to provide high-quality clinical preventive services. This unique resource is separated into two sections: The first section gives information on risks, ways providers can assess for risk and tools they can use to advise and help patients move forward. The second section is a tool kit with information, resources, tools and other items that can help the clinician provide evidence-based, patient-centered information to their patients. This accessible reference provide readers with the basic elements necessary to help their patients change their health behavior related to the most prevalent risk factors, and to serve as a springboard to keep pace with the latest evidence arising in the applied science of wellness, prevention and health promotion. INSIDE YOU’LL FIND: • Screening, prevention, health promotion and advising information and resources that will complement your routine care of the patients you serve • Instructions for how to appropriately use CPT codes for billing preventive services