AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference

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To help advance its goal of improving health care for all Americans, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) held its third annual conference on September 18-21, 2011, in Bethesda, MD. This conference was designed to showcase the best of the Agency's research and provide examples of how that research is being implemented at all levels in health care delivery. Entitled "Leading Through Innovation & Collaboration" the conference featured presentations in seven major themes.

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Conference Contents

Agenda
Plenary Sessions
Posters
Tabletops
Session Presentations—listed by different tracks:
   Track A: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
   Track B: Ensuring That Each Person and Family Are Engaged as Partners in Their Care
   Track C: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
   Track D: Promoting the Most Effective Prevention and Treatment Practices for the Leading Causes of Mortality, Starting With Cardiovascular Disease
   Track E: Working With Communities to Promote Wide Use of Best Practices to Enable Healthy Living
   Track F: Making Quality Care More Affordable for Individuals, Families, Employers, and Governments by Developing and Spreading New Health Care Delivery Models

Special Sessions frrom the AHRQ Multiple Chronic Conditions Research Network:
   60-Second Presentations

Plenary Sessions

Leading Through Innovation & Collaboration: Addressing Health Care Disparities, Access, and Quality of Care

Video of Plenary Session, September 19, 2011 (Flash® video; 94 min.; 1.2 GB) (Plugin Software Help)

Moderator:	Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Speakers:	Gary R. Gunderson, D.Min., M.Div., Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Rhonda M. Johnson, M.D., M.P.H., Highmark, Inc. Herbert C. Smitherman, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., FACP, Wayne State University School of Medicine/Detroit Medical Center Susan Vega, Alivio Medical Center

Leading Through Innovation & Collaboration: Addressing Health System Change, Patient Safety, and Quality of Care

Video of Plenary Session, September 20, 2011 (Flash® video; 90 min.; 1.2 GB) (Plugin Software Help)

Moderator:	Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Speakers:	Molly Joel Coye, M.D., M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles Arnold Milstein, M.D., M.P.H., Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Current as of March 2012

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Internet Citation:

AHRQ's 2011 Annual Conference. January 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/about/annualconf11/index.html

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