AHRQ’s PSNet provides access to patient safety resources, toolkits, opportunities for continuing education and trainings. The evidence reports are part of the agency’s Making Healthcare Safer Reports, ...

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 ...

Background: Crucial to a fall prevention initiative is the creation of an interdisciplinary Implementation Team that will oversee the improvement effort. This tool can be used to identify people from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI was developed and refined over a 3-year period through a national quality improvement collaborative designed to reduce CAUTIs and enhance LTC ...

Evidence is always evolving, so practices have to change if they are to stay current. Quality improvement (QI) is a systematic, data-driven process for managing that change. QI starts with the ...

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 ...

This resource, Guidelines and Measures, was set up by AHRQ to provide users a place to find information about its legacy guidelines and measures clearinghouses, National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) ...

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 ...