A new analysis of hospitalized Medicare patients reveals a decline in adverse events since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 13-to-15 percent reduction in adverse events in 2022 compared to ...

This free pre-application technical assistance webinar is for organizations seeking to become one of AHRQ’s Healthcare Extension Cooperatives, a central part of AHRQ’s emerging Healthcare Extension ...

According to an AHRQ report to Congress, the number of sepsis-related inpatient stays at non-federal acute care hospitals in the United States increased from 1.8 million in 2016 to 2.5 million in 2021 ...

September 12, 2023 AHRQ Views Blog Post: With TeamSTEPPS 3.0, AHRQ Refreshes a Landmark Patient Safety Training Curriculum ...

The report, titled “An Assessment of Sepsis in the United States and its Burden on Hospital Care,” responds to language in the Joint Explanatory Statement that accompanied the Consolidated ...

AHRQ is a federal leader in efforts to advance patient and healthcare worker safety, and we are proud that the National ...

Person-centered data often are not easily shared from one health setting to another, in part because electronic health records (EHR) at different settings don’t “talk” to one another.

Health care delivery systems throughout the United States are employing the triple aim (improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health ...

Care coordination means different things to different people; no consensus definition has fully evolved. A recent systematic review identified over 40 definitions of the term "care coordination." 2 ...

AHRQ's Healthcare Extension Service is funded through a major investment from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund, established by Section 6301 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to advance ...

After the Institute of Medicine released its sentinel report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in conjunction with its Federal ...

This section of the toolkit offers some strategies for those who seek to serve as change agents in their organizations to improve the informed consent and authorization process. Post AHRQ sample ...