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              2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
              AHRQ's annual assessment of healthcare in America
              AHRQ Announces Health Systems Challenge
              Learn about a competition integrating real-world data into systematic review findings
              Featured AHRQ Grantee: Kenneth Catchpole, Ph.D.
              Newest profile of AHRQ grantee working to improve healthcare quality and safety
              Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions
              AHRQ primer supports healthcare organizations reduce their carbon footprint
              2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
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              Featured AHRQ Grantee: Kenneth Catchpole, Ph.D.
              AHRQ Primer for Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions
              2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
              AHRQ's annual assessment of healthcare in America
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              Learn about a competition integrating real-world data into systematic review findings
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              AHRQ primer supports healthcare organizations reduce their carbon footprint

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              News & Events

              BLOG series | December 14-20: AHRQ Rethinks the Future of Healthcare Quality

              BLOG | December 13: In Pandemic’s Wake, We Must Recommit to Patient and Workforce Safety

              WEBINAR | January 30: Jan. 30 Webinar: Technical Assistance to Applicants Seeking Learning Health System Grants

              Funding & Grants

              AHRQ Seeks Research Proposals on Intersection of Climate Change and Healthcare

              AHRQ Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01)

              Funding Opportunity Invites Applications for the Creation of Learning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research Centers

              AHRQ Special Emphasis Notice on Healthcare-Associated Infections and Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

              Quality & Patient Safety

              Learn about the National Healthcare System Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety

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              Concentration of Healthcare Expenditures and Selected Characteristics of Persons With High Expenses

              New Systematic Reviews Provide Insights on Use of Telehealth

              New AHRQ Resource Answers Clinicians’ Questions About Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder

              AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center Program: 25 Years of Supporting Healthcare With Evidence

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              Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

              Making Care Safer in All Settings

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              Improving Diagnostic Safety

              AHRQ is funding research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and what can be done to prevent them.

              Digital Healthcare Research

              Digital Healthcare Research

              Informing improvement in care quality, safety, and efficiency

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              HCUP and MEPS

              Statistical portraits of how healthcare is delivered and paid for in the U.S. from data from Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) and Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).

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              EvidenceNOW

              EvidenceNOW is an AHRQ grant initiative dedicated to improving the heart health of millions of Americans.

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              Network of Patient Safety Databases

              An early national portrait of patient safety event reports from AHRQ-listed Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs).

              Learning Health Systems

              Learning Health Systems

              AHRQ supports patients getting higher quality, safer, more efficient care, and healthcare delivery organizations becoming better places to work.

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              Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)

              CAHPS surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences.

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              PSNet

              Discover the latest literature, news, and expert commentary on patient safety topics.

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              The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)

              The CUSP Toolkit improves safety culture by integrating safety practices into daily work of a unit or clinical area.

              Effective Health Care Program

              Effective Health Care Program

              The Effective Health Care Program improves healthcare quality by providing the best available evidence on benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and healthcare services.

              Evidence-based Practice Centers Program

              Evidence-based Practice Centers Program

              The Evidence-based Practice Center Program produces evidence reports for the Effective Health Care Program, the Technology Assessment Program, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

               
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              About our work at AHRQ

              The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. We accomplish our mission by focusing on our three core competencies.
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              Health Systems Research
              AHRQ invests in research that generates evidence about how to deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.
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              AHRQ creates tools and strategies to help health systems and frontline clinicians deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.
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              AHRQ data and analysis help healthcare decision makers understand how the US healthcare system is working and where there are opportunities for improvement.
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