What's New
News & Events
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
CDC: Coronavirus Disease Situation Summary
BLOG | January 11, 2021 Defining the New AHRQ: A Race for 21st Century Care
BLOG | January 5, 2021 For AHRQ in 2020, an Unforgettable Year of Daunting Challenges and Vital Accomplishments
PRESS RELEASE | January 12, 2020 HHS Awards 26 Research Grants to Explore the Healthcare System’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Upcoming Webinars
Jan. 21 Webinar: Use of AHRQ Patient Safety Culture Survey in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Jan. 28 Webinar: Lessons From Healthcare Organizations on Improving Patient Experience
Funding & Grants
January 25: Funding Opportunity—Disseminate Evidence Into Practice Through Clinical Decision Support
AHRQ Grantee Profile: Improving Outcomes for Patients by Optimizing Surgical Performance
Quality & Patient Safety
2019 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
Research
Online Resource Offers First-Time Access to Numerous Social Determinants of Health Data Files
New Reports Summarize Evidence on Pain Treatment
Out-of-Pocket Spending for Retail Prescribed Drugs by Age and Type of Prescription Drug Coverage
2020 Data on Hospital Utilization
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.
About our
work at AHRQ
Latest 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.
