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AHRQ Publications Catalog

Fall/Winter 2007

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a component of the Department of Health and Human Services. AHRQ's mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. Its goals are to promote effective, appropriate, high-quality health care; increase access to care; and improve the way health services are organized, delivered, and financed.

The Agency was established by Congress in December 1989 as the successor to the National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment. On December 6, 1999, under Public Law 106-129, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) was reauthorized and renamed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The law authorizes AHRQ to continue its research on the cost, quality, and outcomes of health care, and expands its role to improve patient safety and address medical errors. AHRQ funds research on key health care delivery and medical effectiveness issues through grants and contracts. Its in-house researchers and health care professionals conduct analyses on a range of policy issues and evaluate the risks and effects of specific health care technologies.

The publications in this catalog describe AHRQ programs and present research findings. Please be sure to check related subject areas in this catalog, as some special topics of interest may be found elsewhere in the catalog.

This catalog includes only items published by AHRQ or reprinted by AHRQ from other sources. A large number of publications that result from AHRQ-funded projects cannot be included here. Information on these materials is included periodically in AHRQ's monthly bulletin Research Activities. Select for more information about this bulletin.

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