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PRESS RELEASE | September 27: AHRQ Announces New Healthcare System Challenge Competition
BLOG | December 5: We Must Not Underestimate the Impacts of Gun Violence on Healthcare Workers
BLOG | November 22: The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: We Still Have Much Work to Do
December/January Webinars: Joining AHRQ's MRSA Prevention Program
Funding & Grants
AHRQ Accepting Proposals To Establish Patient Safety Learning Laboratories
Research
Overview of Hospital Stays Among Children and Adolescents
Resource Helps Integrate Perinatal Behavioral Health in Primary Care
Management of Infantile Epilepsies
AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center Program: 25 Years of Supporting Healthcare With Evidence
Quality & Patient Safety
Highlights From AHRQ's Patient Safety Network
AHRQ-Funded Resource Provides Data To Characterize Healthcare Organizations and Systems
“My Medicines List” Available in English and Spanish To Help Patients Keep Track of Medications
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Featured Programs
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Making Care Safer in All Settings
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
Informing improvement in care quality, safety, and efficiency
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).
EvidenceNOW
EvidenceNOW is an AHRQ grant initiative dedicated to improving the heart health of millions of Americans.
Network of Patient Safety Databases
An early national portrait of patient safety event reports from AHRQ-listed Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs).
Learning Health Systems
AHRQ supports patients getting higher quality, safer, more efficient care, and healthcare delivery organizations becoming better places to work.
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)
CAHPS surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences.
PSNet
Discover the latest literature, news, and expert commentary on patient safety topics.
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
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
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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Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits
Toolkits developed based on the experiences of frontline clinical teams in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices that successfully applied the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making to improve antibiotic use.
QuestionBuilder en Español
Now in Spanish: AHRQ’s Question Builder App:
A tool for patients and caregivers to prepare for medical appointments
