AHRQ Research Summit on Improving Diagnosis in Health Care

Additional Information:
http://www.ahrq.gov/news/events/ahrq-research-summit-diagnostic-safety.html?utm_source=AHRQ&utm_medium=EN-1&utm_term=&utm_content=1&utm_campaign=AHRQ_EN8_9_2016

Description:
Date: September 28, 2016, 8:30am – 5:00pm
Location:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
Most patients will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, according to the AHRQ-sponsored report, Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, published by the National Academies of Medicine in September 2015. These errors occur in all settings of care, contribute to about 10 percent of patient deaths, and are the primary reason for medical liability claims. Substantial effort is needed to identify research priorities, including how to measure and reduce diagnostic errors, and ensure this information is integrated into practice, where it will translate meaningful benefits for patients. This interactive meeting will explore the state of the science of diagnosis in health care and discuss ways AHRQ and other stakeholders can contribute to a collaborative approach to improving diagnostic performance, as well as identify the research and evidence, tools and training, and data and measures that are needed to improve diagnostic performance.

National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

Additional Information:
http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/careaffordability/index.html?utm_source=AHRQ&utm_medium=EN&utm_term=&utm_content=1&utm_campaign=AHRQ_CACB_2016

Description:
This Care Affordability chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR). The QDR includes annual reports to Congress mandated in the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-129). This chartbook includes a summary of quality and disparities across measures of care affordability from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of care affordability. A PowerPoint version is also available that users can download for presentations.

9th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health

Additional Information:
http://diconference.academyhealth.org/home

Description:

We are accepting abstract submissions through August 4th for the 9th Annual Conference, which will take place on December 14-15, 2016 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. A forum for discussing the science of dissemination and implementation, the 9th Annual Conference aims to grow the research base by bridging the gap between evidence, practice, and policy in health and medicine.

The abstract solicitation and conference structure have been designed to focus our thinking and discussion on the highest priorities for dissemination and implementation science now and in the future to help optimize health and health care in the U.S. and elsewhere. Given the breadth of the field and the importance of maximizing opportunities for participants to follow consistent themes throughout the concurrent sessions of the meeting, we are including nine thematic tracks to organize the conference agenda.

NIDDK Recent Advances & Emerging Opportunities 2016

Additional Information:
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/strategic-plans-reports/Pages/NIDDK-recent-advances-emerging-opportunities-2016.aspx

Description:
The publication, NIDDK Recent Advances & Emerging Opportunities, is a document that the NIDDK has issued annually since 2001. It is a compendium that highlights examples of the many research advances published by NIDDK-funded scientists and their colleagues in the most recent fiscal year, along with the technologies that made these achievements possible. Thus, most of the research findings described in the January 2016 compendium were published in fiscal year 2015. In addition to research advances, the compendium includes:

• "Stories of Discovery," which trace research progress in specific areas over a much longer period of time; 
• "Scientific Presentations," which have been made by eminent researchers during 2015; and
• "Patient Profiles," which recount the personal stories of several patients whose lives have been adversely affected by disease.

This publication is one means of conveying the important accomplishments that have resulted from NIDDK-funded research, as well as the enormous promise this research holds for the future. The examples given here are representative of the much larger and more diverse research portfolio funded by the NIDDK. This compendium is a web-based publication, which is also presented to the NIDDK's National Advisory Council in printed form each January or February.

Changing Practice: How to Understand and Address Social Factors that Shape Child Health

Additional Information:
https://cc.readytalk.com/registration/#/?meeting=y37k7jd1yv92&campaign=x7fp1ahfuzg

Description:

June 08, 2016; 11:00am to 12:00pm Central Daylight Time

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the importance and prevalence of social factors (in rural, urban, and suburban areas) in impacting child health.
• Describe the role of the pediatric medical home in identifying and addressing the social factors effecting child health outcomes.
• Discuss tools and strategies that can assist pediatric medical homes with identifying and addressing social needs that effect children's health and development.

 

2015–2016 IRP Webinar Series

Additional Information:
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/media/webinars.htm#june2016

Description:

June 8, 2016, 1:00–2:00pm CDT

How Economic and Social Disadvantage Affects Health and Life Opportunities
Featuring Geoffrey Swain, Sheri Johnson, and Katie Ports
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In this webinar, the presenters will discuss how economic and social disadvantages are associated with worse health outcomes over the life course. The presentations will focus on:

• How individual- and community-level deprivation and chronic, unmitigated stress affects health in different stages of the life course
• Perceived discrimination among young adult expectant parents
• The effects of adverse childhood experiences on long-term health outcomes

9th Annual American Indian Justice Conference

Additional Information:
https://www.ncjtc.org/CONF/AIJC/Pages/default.aspx

Description:
June 15-16, 2016 | Tucson, AZ

June 14, 2016 | Pre-Conference
Conference hosted by Pascua Yaqui Tribe

​ Enhance your ability to combat alcohol and drug abuse in your tribal community. Recognize how trauma impacts drug and alcohol abuse in tribal communities. Identify current trends and best practices for tribal justice systems to strengthen multi-disciplinary approaches to healing and justice. Four disciplinary tracks of training are being offered:  alcohol and substance abuse, tribal justice strategic planning, tribal courts, and tribal probation.

Conference topics include:

• Transmission of maladaptive coping through epigenetics
• Sentencing alternatives - looking beyond incarceration
• Traditional approaches to adjudication
• Theory, assessment and treatment of complex trauma
• Drug identification and recognition to support tribal justice