AHRQ Healthcare Horizon Scanning System – Potential High-Impact Interventions Report
The AHRQ priority area of functional limitations encompasses a wide range of disease states and conditions that affect peoples’ ability to function normally, including autoimmune diseases, hematologic diseases, conditions causing chronic pain, degenerative diseases, central and peripheral nervous system disorders, physical limitations incurred because of spinal cord injury, sensory conditions (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell), sleep disorders, organ failure (other than heart), and certain genetic disorders that are outside of the other priority areas. The material on interventions in this Executive Summary and the report is organized alphabetically by disease state, and then by interventions. Readers are encouraged to read the detailed information on each intervention that follows the Executive Summary.