1. AHRQ Podcast on Health Screenings and Medication Safety

   

   Mid-January’s Healthcare 411 podcast features AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., offering consumers tips on medication safety. Colonoscopy screening trends for older Americans and the Task Force’s recommendation against screening for carotid artery stenosis in people with no symptoms also are featured. This podcast was distributed to our 221 partnership organizations, including the American Health Quality Association and the Chicago Patient Safety Forum. Shorter versions of these stories also air on 125 radio stations nationwide.

   Listen to the podcast at http://www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/podcast.aspx?id=313
   or read the transcript at http://www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/transcript.aspx?id=313

2. AHRQ Director Helps Consumers Navigate the Health Care System in a New Advice Column on the Web
   AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., offers advice to consumers in new, brief, easy-to-understand columns. The biweekly columns help consumers better navigate the health care system. To read Dr. Clancy’s advice columns see: http://ahrq.gov/consumer/cc.htm. This week’s column focuses on “What to Ask Before Surgery.”

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