Innovations
Child Abuse Experts Provide Videoconference-Enabled Consultations to Providers in Remote Emergency Departments and Clinics, Leading to More Accurate Diagnosis 2/13/2013
Using interactive videoconferencing, the University of California at Davis provides 24-hour child abuse evaluation and consultation services and provides monthly child abuse training to health care providers serving rural underserved areas.
Clinical Microsystem Improvements in Children's Hospital Lead to Fewer Codes and More Timely Delivery of Essential Care 2/13/2013
A children's hospital uses a clinical "microsystem" approach to improve patient safety and quality, leading to fewer codes and more timely care.
Community-Wide Collaboration Provides School-Based Mental Health Services to Students and Families in Impoverished, High-Crime, Urban Neighborhoods 2/13/2013
A child mental health agency, the Boston Public Schools, and several other urban community service agencies have joined together to provide school-based mental health and other support services to students and their families living in neighborhoods plagued by poverty and crime.
Dedicated Inpatient Unit Improves Outcomes and Generates High Satisfaction for Women With Severe Perinatal Depression 2/13/2013
A dedicated inpatient unit features a physical environment, staffing, policies, and services tailored to women with severe perinatal depression, leading to improvements in outcomes and high levels of patient satisfaction.
Expanding Interpreter Role to Include Advocacy and Care Coordination Improves Efficiency and Leads to High Patient and Provider Satisfaction 2/6/2013
A unit-based Limited English Proficiency Patient Family Advocate expands the traditional interpreter role to include patient family education, advocacy, and care coordination, leading to more efficient and productive interpretation services and high levels of patient and provider satisfaction.
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QualityTools
A Guide To Improving Children's Oral Health Care: Tools for the Head Start Community 2/20/2013
This guide for Early Head Start/Head Start (EHS/HS) staff provides information to coordinate and establish dental homes and improve oral health care for high-risk, low-income children.
Childhood Obesity: It's Everyone's Business 2/20/2013
This toolkit provides employers with a range of options that may be implemented in their own company to address childhood obesity.
Elective Induction and Augmentation Bundles 2/20/2013
Using the principles of reliability science, this set of interventions, or bundles, identified by a combination of experts and front-line practitioners, may decrease the risk of birth trauma and other adverse events when carried out consistently.
FindYouthInfo Program Directory 2/20/2013
The FindYouthInfo Program Directory provides information about program designs that successfully deal with risky behaviors in youth so they can be replicated to meet local needs.
Lactose Intolerance: Information for Health Care Providers 2/20/2013
This fact sheet can be used by health care providers to educate patients who are lactose intolerant on how they can get enough calcium each day.
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