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An AHRQ App for Digital Healthcare
National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions
Declines in HACs save 20,500 lives and $7.7 billion in costs
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Making Care Safer in All Settings
Opioids
Supporting HHS' Opioid Initiative

Featured Programs

EvidenceNow is an AHRQ grant initiative dedicated to improving the heart health of millions of Americans.
Statistical portraits of how health care is delivered and paid for in the United States.
Discover the latest literature, news, and expert commentary on patient safety topics.
The CUSP Toolkit improves safety culture by integrating safety practices into daily work of a unit or clinical area.
AHRQ is funding research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and what can be done to prevent them.
CAHPS surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences.
An early national portrait of patient safety event reports from AHRQ-listed Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs).
AHRQ supports patients getting higher quality, safer, more efficient care, and health care delivery organizations becoming better places to work.

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

Continuing To Build AHRQ's Future

AHRQ Director Gopal Khanna describes the Agency's mission and core competencies.

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AHRQ's HealthIT Portfolio develops evidence of health IT's impact on healthcare
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Know what to do about the flu.
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Help your loved one stay safe at the hospital.
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The latest data related to disparities for the leading health indicators.
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