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Conference
Tracks
Criteria
for Submission
Submission
Process
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AHQA 2005 Annual Meeting and Technical Conference will focus on the critical
challenges of improving quality of care for a rapidly growing aging population,
as well as the escalating expectations placed on health care systems.
Special attention will be given to projects and activities focusing on
initiatives that succeeded in improving quality of care in nursing homes,
home health care settings, physician offices, and other ambulatory care
settings.
Submissions
are requested for each of eight (8) conference tracks. All presentations
should address key quality challenges and offer practical lessons learned
and solutions that attendees can adapt for use in their day-to-day work.
They should be relevant, timely and professionally presented. Priority
will be given to those submissions that present measurable results.
Submissions
will be reviewed by selected members of The American Health Quality Association
in a double-blind process to ensure concurrence among reviewers.
Submissions
can focus on any of the following practice environments: acute care, home
health, skilled nursing, long term care, physician offices, ambulatory
care centers, hospice, or administrative environments. Or in any of the
following settings: Medicare, Medicaid, private sector, fee-for-service,
managed care, or grant work. For those tracks related to clinical settings
or environments, priority areas include: diabetes, surgical infection
prophylaxis, heart failure, heart attack, breast cancer, influenza, pneumonia,
underserved and rural beneficiary quality improvement, pressure ulcer
prevention/care, pain management, weight loss, and activities of daily
living for home health and long term care patients.
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