This report describes tools developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that are currently available to help patients and their providers make better decisions. It suggests that a broader application of existing tools, as well as the development of similar tools for different areas of care, will improve the quality of care from the perspectives of patients, providers, and health plans. The tools described in this report include:...

Air transport training programs provide simulator-based upset-recovery instruction for company pilots. However, no prior research demonstrates that such training transfers to an airplane in flight. We report on an FAA-funded research experiment to evaluate upset-recovery training transfer. Two groups of participants were given simulator-based training in upset-recovery, one in a high-end centrifuge-based device, the other using Microsoft Flight Simulator...

The official site of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta covering the Sixth Federal Reserve District including Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, and portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, presents its research activities and finance education tools for the community, and roles in the district: providing cash to banks, savings and loans, and other depository institutions; transferring money electronically through the FedWire funds transfer...