New Innovations Exchange Issue Focuses on Reducing Oral Health Disparities

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the October 28 issue of the Health Care Innovations Exchange.

  • The featured innovations describe several initiatives to reduce oral health disparities among vulnerable populations especially refugees/asylum-seekers and older homeless adults.
  • The featured QualityTools provide practical resources including toolkits to assist health professionals working with vulnerable populations.
  • Additional innovations on oral health are available on the Innovations Exchange Web site. The Innovations Exchange contains more than 350 searchable innovations and 1,400 searchable Quality Tools.

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New issues of the Innovations Exchange are published biweekly on Wednesdays. We would appreciate hearing your ideas for topics for future issues of the Innovations Exchange. Please contact us at info@innovations.ahrq.gov.

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