Category Archives: Guidelines Plus

Child (2-12 years), Infant (1-23 months) Behavior Control, Referral And Consultation

Adolescent (13-18 years), Adult (19-64 years) Neoplasms, Social Support

Australia

Adolescent (13-18 years), Adult (19-64 years), Child (2-12 years) Domestic Violence, Women, Spouse Abuse

A nonprofit organization trains and places culturally competent home health workers to provide care for low-income, Asian-American seniors with limited English proficiency, leading to enhanced access to culturally competent care.

Adolescent (13-18 years), Adult (19-64 years) Mental Disorders, Adolescent Psychiatry, Interview, Psychological, General Practice

This guide for payers, plans, provider groups, patient advocacy groups, and all medication therapy management service providers discusses the rationale for including comprehensive medication management services in integrated patient-centered care.

A nonprofit organization enhances access to medical, dental, and personal care for individuals with disabilities by training them to overcome their fears, offering procedures by trained providers, sponsoring patient education programs, and training local health care professionals on caring for those with disabilities.

Hospital-based social workers support recently discharged older patients and their caregivers in resolving problems related to their transition back home, leading to enhanced patient and caregiver knowledge, better attendance at followup appointments, and fewer readmissions and deaths.

A high school–based program provides culturally appropriate education and follow up support to Latino teenagers, leading to reduced likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behaviors.

Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry), Mental Disorders

This toolkit is designed to help communities increase awareness and use of their public reports comparing health care quality, cost, patient experience, and other aspects of value by consumers and other important audiences.

Adult (19-64 years), Aged (65+ years) Palliative Care, Advance Care Planning, Oceanic Ancestry Group, Dementia, Parkinson Disease, Motor Neuron Disease, Caregivers

Aged (65+ years) Exercise Therapy, Accident Prevention

Adolescent (13-18 years), Adult (19-64 years), Aged (65+ years), Child (2-12 years) Behavior Control, Disabled Persons

Understanding patient and provider perspectives is an integral component of evaluating clinical programs to improve clinical services. The purpose of this evaluation toolkit is to offer a package of evaluation materials that can be used to determine the effect that expanded HIV screening activities has on patient attitudes toward and accepting HIV testing.

Child (2-12 years), Infant (1-23 months) Child Development Disorders, Pervasive, Early Diagnosis

This online tool, for psychologists and other health professionals, provides tools and resources to address the many challenges of improving the lives of contemporary family caregivers.

Adolescent (13-18 years), Adult (19-64 years) Risk Factors, Prognosis, Adolescent Psychology, Depression, Bipolar Disorder

Adolescent (13-18 years), Child (2-12 years) Resilience, Psychological, Bullying, General Practice

This update to the orginal 2008 National Plan provides practical steps that individuals, organizations, businesses and policymakers can implement to promote positive youth development and prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation. The National Plan to Prevent the Sexual Exploitation of Children

As a conceptual model for improving child welfare outcomes, evidence-based practice (EBP) has created new opportunities as well as a number of challenges related to the implementation process. To address these challenges, the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC)

Adult (19-64 years), Aged (65+ years) Early Diagnosis, Drinking Behavior, Health Promotion

“Core” guidance on resilience, covering resilience philosophy, principles, structures and regulatory duties

The Department has published guidance on the time limits starting from 1 April 2012 for individuals or their families and representatives to request a review of an eligibility decision for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding by the local PCT or responsible NHS body at a local level. These limits will only apply to eligibility decisions notified after 1 April 2012 and not before. Individuals will be informed of these timeframes. Guidance should be provided locally on how individuals need to be …

Through a partnership between the Veterans Administration and the Alzheimer’s Association, a two-person care coordinator team provided support to patients with dementia and their caregivers over a 12-month period. The program led to improved psychosocial outcomes for veterans and caregivers, fewer readmissions and institutional placements, enhanced access to outpatient services, and higher overall health care costs.

Parents as Teachers (PAT) is an early childhood family support and parent education home-visiting model. Families may enroll in Parents as Teachers beginning with pregnancy and may remain in the program until the child enters kindergarten. Based on theories of human ecology, empowerment, self-efficacy, and developmental parenting, Parents as Teachers involves the training and certification of parent educators who work with families using a comprehensive research-based and evidence-informed curriculum. Parent educators work with parents to strengthen protective factors and ensure …

The Government has published its response to the Science and Technology Committee Report on Alcohol Guidelines. The response sets out the Department of Health’s intention to commission a review, led by Dame Sally Davies, the UK’s principal medical adviser, to look at the current drinking guidelines, and the evidence base. Clear and easily understood information is central to ensuring that everyone is aware of the risks of excessive alcohol consumption and can make informed choices about responsible drinking. The previous …

To meet the needs of the surrounding community, 11th Street Family Health Services of Drexel University employs a multidisciplinary model of care, offering residents a wide variety of health and wellness services regardless of their ability to pay.

Hospital-based interdisciplinary teams conduct daily reviews of real-time information on all inpatients ages 65 and older to identify and address risk factors that can lead to negative outcomes; the program reduced use of urinary catheters and increased use of physical therapy and social work evaluations.

Alcohol-Related Disorders, Drug Therapy, South Australia

A summary of the review of knowledge of, and compliance with, the Alcohol Sponsorhsip Guidelines for Scotland, with a focus on identifying best practice and examining whether there is a need to enhance and improve the Guidelines.

Adolescent (13-18 years), Adult (19-64 years), Aged (65+ years), Child (2-12 years) Gambling, Behavior Control, Behavior, Addictive, Drug Therapy, Diagnosis

Stacked Deck: A Program To Prevent Problem Gambling is a school-based prevention program that provides information about the myths and realities of gambling and guidance on making good choices, with the objective of modifying attitudes, beliefs, and ultimately gambling behavior. The intervention is provided to students in 9th through 12th grade as part of a regularly scheduled class such as health education or career management. Trained facilitators (teachers, prevention specialists, or health educators) use a facilitator’s guide to administer five …

This online guide, for health care providers, information technology specialists, and system administrators, helps in planning and avoiding possible problems when implementing and using an electronic health record (EHR).

PALS: Prevention through Alternative Learning Styles is an alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) prevention program primarily for middle school students. Goals of PALS include (1) lowering students’ intentions to use ATOD, (2) increasing students’ use of refusal skills, and (3) enhancing students’ knowledge of the effects of ATOD, peer pressure and healthy decisionmaking, and different learning styles.

This toolkit is a step-by-step resource filled with practical information and resources to assess caregiver needs in service delivery settings.

This fact sheet provides current information about state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs), which provide HIV medications to low-income people with HIV/AIDS who have limited or no prescription drug coverage.

NICE has today (24 February) published a new quality standard and guidance on patient experience in adult NHS services.

A trained rapid response, crisis prevention team calms agitated patients in inpatient psychiatry units, leading to less use of restraints and seclusion and fewer injuries to staff and patients.

The guidelines have been developed primarily to assist national authorities in introducing a regulatory framework to deal with situations in which patients under treatment with preparations containing internationally controlled drugs are travelling abroad and carrying with them small quantities of such preparations for personal use. Such regulations would enhance the security of patients by making them aware of national requirements in the country they intend to visit. The guidelines also present elements of unified procedures that can be implemented by …

Individual and group support enhances the skills and knowledge of caregivers of dementia patients, leading to less caregiver burden and depression and fewer problem behaviors among patients.

To support States in the CFSR process, the NRCOI partnered with several National Resource Centers (NRC) to develop a CFSR training and technical assistance (T/TA) package. These customizable materials are intended to provide additional resources for successfully engaging with the CFSR process. Each area has a distinct topical focus and incorporates a content presentation, facilitator’s guide, and participant handouts. Wherever a State chooses to focus, the NRCOI works with senior administrators, including child welfare directors, to keep them fully engaged …

A hospital screens all cardiac inpatients for depression and anxiety and initiates treatment for them as appropriate, leading to improvements in cardiac symptoms and mental health.

Public health nurses provide case management services to women with one or more chronic conditions who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, leading to enhanced access to mental health services, fewer depressive symptoms, and improved functional status.

The Center for Innovation and Resources, Inc., has published a second edition of a guide for multidisciplinary interview teams (including child welfare, law enforcement, and other professionals) conducting forensic interviews with bilingual or Spanish-speaking children. The Guide for Forensic…

Healthy Hair Starts with a Healthy Bodyâ„¢ is a salon-based campaign to educate African-American adults in urban areas of Michigan about how to reduce the risks of chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and hypertension.

The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute and Fostering Media Connections released Rescuing Forgotten Futures: An Action Guide to the Improvements Everyone Can Make to Help Foster Youth Succeed in School. The guide focuses on the correlation between child welfare experience and e…

A large employer offers a comprehensive wellness program combined with financial incentives to use its various components, leading to broad participation, improvements in health-related behaviors and risk factors, and a leveling off of overall health care costs.

Using tools and resources developed by NIATx, the Iowa Department of Public Health and local providers conducted an administrative overhaul of substance abuse services to improve access to care for patients in Iowa.

The purpose of this toolkit is to help tribal child welfare workers and care providers play an effective role in the prevention of suicide among the children and youth they serve.

The Boston Public Schools, a child mental health agency, 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.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) today (Thursday 23 February) opens a consultation on draft guidance intended to help people of South Asian origin to stop using smokeless tobacco products, such as Gutka, Pan Masala, Shupari, and Betel Quid.

This guide is intended to serve as a helpful reference tool for the data sets available from the HUD USER Clearinghouse, and on our website at www.huduser.org. We have provided a brief description of each data set along with its Web address, release data, format(s), and the timeframe to which the data applies.

The Toolkit for Modifying Evidence-Based Practices to Increase Cultural Competence provides a step-by-step methodology for mental health practitioners and agency administrators to identify and evaluate evidence-based practices (EBPs) for possible modification for cultural groups.

This consumer guide provides information about the possible benefits and negative side effects of therapies for children who are between 2 and 12 years old and have an autism spectrum disorder.

Intensive, person-centered case management, peer support, and a discretionary fund for adults with serious mental illness leads to better access to treatment, job training, and employment; fewer suicide/self-harm attempts, hospitalizations, incarcerations, and days of homelessness; and lower mental illness-related costs.

Individuals with depression and/or other mood disorders log and track their daily mood through a mobile phone application, leading to higher adherence than with paper-based tools, better treatment decisions, and positive feedback from patients and clinicians.

As part of Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute’s video ethnography approach, provider teams interview patients about their care experiences, leading to the development of many quality improvement projects that have resulted in better care processes and outcomes.

An individualized, self-directed, tailored intervention assists adults in effectively managing stress in healthy ways, including through exercise, socialization, meditation, and/or relaxation.

Background: Facilitation is emerging as an important strategy in the uptake of evidence. However, it is not entirely clear from a practical perspective how facilitation occurs to help move research evidence into nursing practice. The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, also known as the ‘Partnership,’ is a Pan-Canadian initiative supporting knowledge translation activity for improved care through guideline use. In this case-series study, five self-identified groups volunteered to use a systematic methodology to adapt existing clinical practice guidelines for Canadian use. …

This collection of toolkits can help health care organizations become better informed consumers of telehealth technology.

A new report by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) identifies core elements necessary for high-quality family engagement and family-sensitive caregiving in early care and education programs.

This guide for clinicians presents the comparative effectiveness, benefits, and harms of therapies associated with the core and associated symptoms seen among children ages 2 to 12 years with autism spectrum disorders.

With this Guide, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) introduces a simple, quick, empirically derived tool for identifying youth at risk for alcohol-related problems. If you manage the health and well-being of children and adolescents ages 9–18 years, this Guide is for you. It has been produced in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics, clinical researchers, and health practitioners such as yourself.

This briefing introduces the National Patient Safety Agency’s new suicide prevention toolkits for community, emergency and general practice staff.

This toolkit is designed to assist health care leaders in managing the challenges associated with developing, adopting, operating, and sustaining a health information exchange (HIE).

This toolkit is a step-by-step guide for individual quality improvement advisers or improvement teams, health care providers, nurses, physicians, applied researchers, and others interested in conducting field work interviews and observation to identify gaps and opportunities to improve health care quality from the perspectives of patients.

An Apple A Day (AAAD) is a universal literacy-based program that helps to build and reinforce resiliency skills for substance abuse prevention and mental health promotion in children in kindergarten through 4th grade. Based on the principles of risk and resilience, AAAD focuses on the following concepts: (1) literacy; (2) personal sense of safety; (3) development of positive friendships; (4) self-esteem, self-respect, and self-efficacy; and (5) awareness of the dangers of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. To introduce each of …