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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 | February 28: Use of Digital Health Technologies To Improve Care for Underserved Populations
WEBINARS | March 2 & 3: Healthcare Algorithms’ Impacts on Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Quality & Patient Safety
Highlights From AHRQ's Patient Safety Network
Learn about the National Healthcare System Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety
AHRQ Grantee Jason S. Adelman Wins Eisenberg Award for Advancing Patient Safety
AHRQ Releases Learning Modules in Spanish, Tagalog, Haitian Creole for Nursing Home Staff
Funding & Grants
AHRQ Seeks Research Proposals on Intersection of Climate Change and Healthcare
AHRQ Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01)
Research
Review Finds Similar Outcomes for Partial, Whole Breast Irradiation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Concentration of Healthcare Expenditures and Selected Characteristics of Persons With High Expenses
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
- Impact Case Studies Learn how AHRQ-funded findings, products and tools have impacted healthcare delivery
- Careers at AHRQ Join the team that strives to improve healthcare for all Americans
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.
