Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

April 1 2008 20080401

Your Experience in the Hospital and Why it Matters

Audio & Video

June 1 2012 20120601

AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals: Interview Series

March 1 2012 20120301

Webinar on AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit™ for Hospitals

Transcript: Transcript: Webinar on AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals

Clinicians & Providers

• AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals
• Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Children in the United States
• Toolkit Roadmap

Hospital & Health System Resources

• AHRQ Hospital-Public Report (H-PR) Survey
• AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals
• Frequently Asked Questions: Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
• Improving Patient Safety Systems for Patients With Limited English Proficiency
• Toolkit Roadmap
• Transcript: Webinar on AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals

Policymaker Resources

• Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Children in the United States

Fact Sheets

June 30 2012 20120630

AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals: Fact Sheet

Other Research & Data

• AHRQ Hospital-Public Report (H-PR) Survey
• Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Children in the United States

News & Numbers

March 16 2011 20110316

Hospital Charges Surpass Trillion Dollar Mark

September 9 2010 20100909

Most Public Hospitals Are in Rural Areas

June 9 2010 20100609

Cost of Hospital Treatment for Blood Infection Surges, Especially for Uninsured Patients

March 31 2010 20100331

Hospital Charges For the Uninsured Up Substantially

March 18 2010 20100318

Treating Blood Infections Tops Annual Hospital Cost Increases

Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

April 1 2008 20080401

Your Experience in the Hospital and Why it Matters

Other News & Events

• 24-hour intensivist care in ICUs can lead to cost savings for the sickest patients admitted at night
• AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals: Fact Sheet
• AHRQ Stats: AHRQ publishes statistics on hospital stays among obese adults and children and hospital stays for hip and knee replacement
• AHRQ releases supplemental files for tracking repeat visits to different hospital settings
• Adverse drug event surveillance tailored to hospitalized children
• Certain hospital characteristics influence mortality after complications following high-risk surgery
• Children's hospitals are pressed to capacity by response to pandemic outbreaks
• Costs of congenital heart operations vary among hospitals
• FACE cards have a small positive effect on hospital patients' ability to identify their physicians
• General hospitals are stepping up specialty services in response to competition from single specialty hospitals
• Going smooth can help relieve weekday crowding at children's hospitals
• Hospital Compare data may not help surgical patients find hospitals with better outcomes
• Hospital charges for the uninsured have soared
• Hospital charges surpass the trillion dollar mark
• Hospital deaths from heart failure cut by half over 7 years
• Hospital emergency departments get tips from AHRQ on how to reduce crowding and better triage patients
• Hospital readmissions higher for chronic conditions
• Hospital stays involving C. difficile infections leveled off after 300 percent increase since 1993
• Hospital volume does not predict mortality for patients undergoing lung cancer surgery
• Hospitals vary widely in their use of dopamine and dobutamine in preterm/low birthweight neonates
• Kidney-sparing surgery for children with renal tumors has equivalent in-hospital results to kidney removal surgery
• Medicaid providers face common barriers to meaningful use
• Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured patients less likely to receive drug-eluting stents than the privately insured
• Men more likely to be readmitted to hospital after discharge
• Mental status deficits a major factor in elderly falls in the hospital
• More hospitals with angioplasty capability have not improved access to the procedure
• New resource helps hospitals get up to speed on safety culture
• Organizational culture distinguishes top-performing hospitals in patient outcomes from heart attack
• Patients admitted to the hospital on weekends wait for major procedures
• Patients treated for heart failure in the emergency department fare better if there is an electronic health record available
• Pay-for-performance project showed early gains but tapered in the fourth and fifth years
• Physicians cultivate colleagues' esteem differently at low- and high-prestige hospitals
• Research Briefs
• Study characterizes patients receiving out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation
• To reduce hospital deaths, managing surgical complications may be as important as preventing them
• Treating blood infections tops annual hospital cost increases
• Two different tools help measure tracheal intubation adverse events and performance in pediatric intensive care units
• Uninsured hospital stays surged from 2003 to 2008