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PRESS RELEASE | April 11: HHS To Award $9 Million in Grants to Clinics Designed to Help People with Long COVID
BLOG | May 19: The End of the Public Health Emergency Refocuses the Urgency to Improve Healthcare Quality
WEBINAR | June 27: National Action Alliance Will Address Workplace Violence
WEBINAR | June 15: Using Clinical Decision Support at the Point of Care
WEBINAR | June 14: Using Clinical Decision Support at the Point of Care
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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.
Climate Change
AHRQ's support for decarbonization in healthcare
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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Featured Product
New Chartbook Highlights Current Challenges in Patient Safety
This Patient Safety chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR). The chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of patient safety from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of patient safety.
