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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
CDC: Coronavirus Disease Situation Summary
Funding & Grants
Funding Opportunity: Improve Care Using Patient Safety Learning Laboratories
AHRQ Grantee Profile: James Ralston, M.D., M.P.H.
AHRQ Seeks Interest in Research Projects Aimed at Advancing Equity
News & Events
BLOG | July 27, 2021 Investing in Primary Care to Ensure High-Quality Care for All Americans
BLOG | June 8, 2021 The FY 2022 President's Budget Request for AHRQ: Building Back Better
August 29: AHRQ’s National Advisory Council Nominations Due
Quality & Patient Safety
Highlights From AHRQ's Patient Safety Network
Issue Brief Calls on Healthcare Leaders To Drive Improvements in Diagnostic Safety
Research
Diabetes-Related Inpatient Stays
Interactive Tool Explores Hospital Trends for COVID-19 and Other Conditions
New Toolkit To Help Long-Term Care Facilities Improve Antibiotic Prescribing
New Tool Helps Nursing Homes Track Resident and Staff Vaccinations
Tool Helps Improve Personal Protective Equipment Compliance in Nursing Homes
AHRQ Resource Supports Increasing COVID-19 Vaccinations Among Certified Nursing Assistants
Featured Programs
Improving Diagnostic Safety
AHRQ is funding research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and what can be done to prevent them.
Learning Health Systems (LHS)
AHRQ supports patients getting higher quality, safer, more efficient care, and health care delivery organizations becoming better places to work.
HCUP and MEPS
Statistical portraits of how health care is delivered and paid for in the US from data from Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) and Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS).
Network of Patient Safety Databases (NPSD)
An early national portrait of patient safety event reports from AHRQ-listed Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs).
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)
CAHPS surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences.
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.
EvidenceNow
EvidenceNow is an AHRQ grant initiative dedicated to improving the heart health of millions of Americans.
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Featured Video
Announcing the Making Healthcare Safer III Report
AHRQ Report Reviews 47 Practices To Improve Patient Safety
Jeff Brady, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, identifies practices for improving patient safety across a variety of settings and stakeholders.
