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News & Events
BLOG | October 22, 2021 Making Progress on Healthy 2030 Health Literacy Objectives
PRESS RELEASE | October 8, 2021 HHS Launches Spanish Language App to Help Latinos Navigate Health Care Questions, Issues New Report Highlighting Latino Coverage Issues
Funding & Grants
AHRQ Grantee Profile: David Newman-Toker, M.D., Ph.D.
AHRQ Signals Intent To Support Research Aimed at Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Webinars
Nov. 16 Webcast: An Update on the CAHPS Patient Narrative Item Sets
Oct. 27–28 Workshop: Using Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Tools
Quality & Patient Safety
Highlights From AHRQ's Patient Safety Network
Research
Interventions To Decrease Hospital Length of Stay
AHRQ Issue Brief: Diagnostic Error's Impacts on Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
Trends in the Number and Percentage of the Population with Any Dental or Medical Visits
New Data Briefs Measure Hospitalizations and In-Hospital Deaths in Early Months of COVID-19
New Data Available in Interactive Tool on Hospital Trends for COVID-19 and Other Conditions
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.
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Featured 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.
