Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

AHRQ's annual assessment of healthcare in America

AHRQ Announces Health Systems Challenge

Learn about a competition integrating real-world data into systematic review findings

Featured AHRQ Grantee: Kenneth Catchpole, Ph.D.

Newest profile of AHRQ grantee working to improve healthcare quality and safety

Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions

AHRQ primer supports healthcare organizations reduce their carbon footprint

2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

Featured AHRQ Grantee: Kenneth Catchpole, Ph.D.

AHRQ Primer for Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions

2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

AHRQ's annual assessment of healthcare in America

AHRQ Announces Health Systems Challenge

Learn about a competition integrating real-world data into systematic review findings

Featured AHRQ Grantee: Kenneth Catchpole, Ph.D.

Newest profile of AHRQ grantee working to improve healthcare quality and safety

Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions

AHRQ primer supports healthcare organizations reduce their carbon footprint

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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

AHRQ COVID-19 Resources

COVID.gov

HHS: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Updates

USA.gov: Government Response to Coronavirus, COVID-19

Impact Case Studies Learn how AHRQ-funded findings, products and tools have impacted healthcare delivery
Careers at AHRQ Join the team that strives to improve healthcare for all Americans

Featured Programs

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

Making Care Safer in All Settings

Diagnostic safety tools including a tablet, chart and stethoscope

Improving Diagnostic Safety

AHRQ is funding research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and what can be done to prevent them.

Digital Healthcare Research

Informing improvement in care quality, safety, and efficiency

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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).

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EvidenceNOW

EvidenceNOW is an AHRQ grant initiative dedicated to improving the heart health of millions of Americans.

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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.

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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.

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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

About our work at AHRQ

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.

Health Systems Research

AHRQ invests in research that generates evidence about how to deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.

Practice Improvement

AHRQ creates tools and strategies to help health systems and frontline clinicians deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.

Data & Analytics

AHRQ data and analysis help healthcare decision makers understand how the US healthcare system is working and where there are opportunities for improvement.

Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits

Toolkits developed based on the experiences of frontline clinical teams in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices that successfully applied the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making to improve antibiotic use.