Today’s Headlines:Join the IDEAS Project To Advance Diagnostic Safety.Help Shape the Future of AHRQ’s Quality Indicators.Study Identifies Key Areas of Expertise Behind Diagnostic Success.Refining ...

AHRQ offers free toolkits designed for clinicians by clinicians. These toolkits offer actionable guidance on what to do and how to do it. They help clinicians and other healthcare staff hardwire ...

AHRQ News Now Sign up: AHRQ News Now email updates AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities. Electronic Newsletter Archive, 2000-2021 Show: All 2024 ...

Patient experience encompasses the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system, including their care from health plans, and from doctors, nurses, and staff in hospitals, ...

2E: Assessing Screening for Pressure Ulcer Risk Background: The purpose of this tool is to determine if your facility has a process to screen patients for pressure ulcer risk. The tool is one of a ...

Funding will help implement and evaluate models for delivering comprehensive, coordinated, person-centered care to people with Long COVID. Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

A warm handoff is a transfer of care between two members of the health care team, where the handoff occurs in front of the patient and family. This transparent handoff of care allows patients and ...

Major Study Finds Significant National Patient Safety Improvement Press Release Date: July 12, 2022 ...

New Dashboard to Track Progress Toward 50 Percent Reduction in Patient and Workforce Harm Press Release Date: December 5, 2024 ...

AHRQ Stats: Prevalence of Long COVID According to IncomeAmong adults who ever had COVID-19, those living in high-income households were less likely to report ever having long COVID (11.0 percent) than ...

AHRQ Stats: Total Adult Outpatient Opioid Prescription FillsThere were 68.6 million outpatient prescription opioid fills between 2021 and 2022. Hydrocodone (25.2 million fills), oxycodone (19.2 ...

A new study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found that nursing homes using a chlorhexidine bathing routine to clean the skin and nose with over-the-counter antiseptic ...