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About our work at AHRQ. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

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The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities …

(9 days ago) WebChild and adolescent mental health: Nearly 20 percent of American children have a mental, emotional, developmental, or behavioral disorder. Rates of emergency visits with …

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Health Care Quality: How Does Your State Compare

(2 days ago) WebThe quality of health care varies widely across the nation. State Snapshots, an interactive tool from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), uses more than 200 …

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Data Visualizations Agency for Healthcare Research and …

(1 days ago) WebData Visualizations. AHRQ's interactive data visualization tools allow researchers, policymakers, healthcare leaders, and others to view visual depictions of healthcare …

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Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

(6 days ago) WebAs the lead federal agency for advancing patient safety, AHRQ invests in research and implementation projects that bridge the gap between research and the delivery of safer patient care. AHRQ’s patient safety research …

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Programs Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

(Just Now) WebPrograms. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s programs offer practical information to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others …

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Defining Health Systems Agency for Healthcare Research …

(Just Now) WebThe National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Center of Excellence defines a health system as a group of healthcare organizations (e.g., physician practices, hospitals, …

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Access to Care Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

(4 days ago) WebAccess to health care means having 'the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes.' Access to health care consists of four components: …

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Practice Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research …

(1 days ago) WebAHRQ is committed to helping health systems and frontline clinicians deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare. We develop, test, and share tools and strategies to help …

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Challenge Competition on the Impact of AHRQ’s Patient …

(3 days ago) Web2 days ago · The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers many practical tools and resources to help a variety of healthcare organizations, providers, …

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AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program

(5 days ago) WebAHRQ’s HAI program funds work to help frontline clinicians and other health care staff prevent HAIs by improving how care is actually delivered to patients. This work is …

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Six Domains of Health Care Quality

(1 days ago) WebSix Domains of Healthcare Quality. A handful of analytic frameworks for quality assessment have guided measure development initiatives in the public and private sectors. One of …

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AHRQ Announces New Challenge Competition to Highlight the …

(9 days ago) WebThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today announced a new Challenge competition that is intended to demonstrate how the use of AHRQ’s …

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2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Data …

(7 days ago) Webrange of health policy issues, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to healthcare programs, and outcomes of treatments at the national, …

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Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Agency for Healthcare

(2 days ago) WebEach year, more than 2.5 million people in the United States develop pressure ulcers. These skin lesions bring pain, associated risk for serious infection, and increased health care …

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Practical Tools for Primary Care Practice Agency for Healthcare

(7 days ago) WebHealth Literacy. The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit – 2nd edition and the companion guide, Implementing the AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions …

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Strategies to Improve Organizational Health Literacy. PSNet

(9 days ago) WebBackground. Health literacy is important at both the personal and organizational levels. According to Healthy People 2030, personal health literacy defined …

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Quality Indicators (QIs) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

(5 days ago) WebAHRQ Quality Indicators (Qis) are standardized, evidence-based measures of health care quality that can be used with readily available hospital inpatient administrative data to …

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National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

(4 days ago) Websummary of the status of health and healthcare delivery in the United States since 2003. The NHQDR team prioritizes reporting data and measures that are broadly …

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2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

(5 days ago) Webthe-counter medication by home health care providers. Care Coordination: More than half (5 of 9) of Care Coordination measures were improving, but one -third (3 of 9) were …

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What Is Patient Experience

(8 days ago) WebPatient Experience Defined. Patient experience encompasses the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system, including their care from health plans, and …

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Home health agency patient experience measures and their

(5 days ago) WebDelivering health care in the home presents unique patient safety challenges. In this study, researchers identified significant associations between Joint Commission …

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Care Management: Implications for Medical Practice, Health …

(5 days ago) WebExecutive Summary. Health care delivery systems throughout the United States are employing the triple aim (improving the experience of care, improving the health of …

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AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research Publications Database

(6 days ago) WebAHRQ Digital Healthcare Research Publications Database. This database serves as a central repository for publications resulting from AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research …

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Adolescents identifying errors and omissions in their electronic …

(1 days ago) WebPatients are increasingly able to access their health record via electronic patient portals and many report finding errors in the record. This study asked adolescent …

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'Speaking Up' for patient safety and staff well-being: a

(1 days ago) WebFollowing the 2013 release of the Report of The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust inquiry, National Health Service (NHS) Trusts have made substantial …

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Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to

(7 days ago) WebA cost-benefit analysis of the Fall TIPS program in eight hospitals estimated that the program cost $0.88 per patient to implement and resulted in savings of $8,500 …

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Section 4: Ways to Approach the Quality Improvement Process

(7 days ago) WebDownload Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process (PDF, 457 KB). Health care delivery systems that are working to improve patient experience can face …

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Care Coordination Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

(Just Now) WebThe CCQM-PC is intended to fill a gap in the care coordination measurement field by assessing the care coordination experiences of adults in primary care settings. It was …

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A national safety board made transportation safer and could do

(Just Now) WebPatient safety has long drawn from aviation safety strategies to inform improvement. This article examines the potential for transparency and learning should a …

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Remote Response Team and Customized Alert Settings Help …

(5 days ago) WebSummary. Seeking a sustainable process to enhance their hospitals’ response to sepsis, a multidisciplinary team at WellSpan Health oversaw the …

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