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              PRESS RELEASE | December 3, 2019

              New AHRQ Studies Identify Ways That Rural Communities Lack Healthcare Access

              BLOG | November 20, 2019

              AHRQ at 20, AHRQ in 20: Looking Back to Look Ahead

              POSITION OPEN | October 24, 2019

              Dec. 5: Applications Due for Deputy Director Position

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              GRANTEE PROFILE | November 29, 2019

              AHRQ Grantee Profile: Raj Ratwani, Ph.D.

              Quality & Patient Safety

              PATIENT SAFETY NETWORK | November 29, 2019

              Highlights From AHRQ's Patient Safety Network

              TOOLS | November 14, 2019

              Acute Care Hospital Toolkit 

              CDS CONNECT | November 8, 2019

              Clinical Decision Support Resources Deliver Preventive Health Information to Patients

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              MEPS STATISTICAL BRIEF | November 19, 2019

              Premiums and Employee Contributions to Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance by Workforce Age and Firm Size, Private Industry

              CURRENT PROJECTS | November 14, 2019

              AHRQ Awarded for Work To Reduce Diagnostic Errors 

              CAHPS DATABASE | November 14, 2019

              CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey Database

              HCUP STATISTICAL BRIEF | November 8, 2019

              Obstetric Delivery Involving Substance Use Disorders and Related Clinical Outcomes

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              EvidenceNow
              EvidenceNow is an AHRQ grant initiative dedicated to improving the heart health of millions of Americans.
              HCUP and MEPS
              Statistical portraits of how health care is delivered and paid for in the United States.
              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.
              Improving Diagnostic Safety
              AHRQ is funding research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and what can be done to prevent them.
              Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)
              CAHPS surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences.
              Network of Patient Safety Databases (NPSD)
              An early national portrait of patient safety event reports from AHRQ-listed Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs).
              Learning Health Systems (LHS)
              AHRQ supports patients getting higher quality, safer, more efficient care, and health care delivery organizations becoming better places to work.

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              The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. We accomplish our mission by focusing on our three core competencies.
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              Health Systems Research
              AHRQ invests in research that generates evidence about how to deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.
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              AHRQ creates tools and strategies to help health systems and frontline clinicians deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.
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              AHRQ data and analysis help healthcare decision makers understand how the US healthcare system is working and where there are opportunities for improvement.
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              AHRQ's HealthIT Portfolio develops evidence of health IT's impact on healthcare
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