AHRQ's IMPaCT grants were designed to support State-level primary care improvement efforts using extension agents (i.e., practice coaches)—and to learn how these programs could serve as models for ...

The purpose of diagnostic excellence measurement is to identify potential opportunities to improve the diagnostic process at a health system or geographic level. AHRQ welcomes comments on the ...

Among hospital inpatient stays without COVID-19 in 2021, the median length of stay with a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) was up to six times as long as stays without an HAI. Patients with ...

An AHRQ-supported article in Health Affairs discusses the potential of biosimilar drugs to unlock lower drug prices for patients. Biosimilars are much more affordable versions of comparable brand-name ...

Patient health status or quality of life. Patient, provider, and population attitudes and behavior. New evidence, research, prevention strategies, treatments, and care models. For example, ...

Problem Statement: Health care delivery is a multidisciplinary practice that requires coordination of care among different professions and provider types. However, health care providers often do not ...

In 2016, AHRQ awarded a contract to develop methods and estimate the incremental inpatient financial costs and additional inpatient mortality associated with 10 selected hospital-acquired conditions ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), announced nine grant awards of $1 million each for up to 5 years to support ...

The Role of the Nurse Manager module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (or CUSP) Toolkit addresses the role of nursing leaders for your quality improvement initiative. This module ...

Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety illuminates the collective insights of the 27 member organizations of the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety (NSC), ...

These toolkits were developed based on the experiences of frontline clinical teams in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices that successfully applied the Four Moments of ...

For the past three decades, measures of health care quality have been embraced as tools for quality improvement, transparency, and accountability. As health care costs continue to rise, more ...