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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
CDC: Coronavirus Disease Situation Summary
BLOG | October 14, 2020 Organizational Health Literacy More Essential than Ever for Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease
BLOG | October 8, 2020 CAHPS®: 25 Years of Putting the Patient First
BLOG | October 5, 2020 AHRQ Launches Network To Prevent COVID-19 in Nursing Homes Nationwide
PRESS RELEASE | September 29, 2020 AHRQ Establishes National Nursing Home COVID Action Network
Quality & Patient Safety
Highlights From AHRQ's Patient Safety Network
Issue Brief: Evidence on Checklists To Reduce Diagnostic Errors
Nov. 5 Webinar: Working With PSOs: The Value for Hospitals During COVID-19 and Beyond
Research
Health System Affiliation and Characteristics of Inpatient Stays at Rural and Metropolitan Hospitals
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 United States.
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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