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What's New
News & Events
BLOG | March 14: With New Funds Proposed for 2024, AHRQ is Poised to Tackle Critical Healthcare Challenges
BLOG | March 13: In the Spirit of Patient Safety Awareness Week, AHRQ Sharpens Its Focus on Diagnostic Safety
WEBINAR | March 28-30: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-HC Users Workshop
Research
AHRQ Briefs Address Emerging Topics for Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care
AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center Program: 25 Years of Supporting Healthcare With Evidence
Quality & Patient Safety
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
AHRQ’s New Series of Patient Safety Research Summaries
New Chartbook Highlights Current Challenges in Patient Safety
Highlights From AHRQ's Patient Safety Network
2023 Data Submission for AHRQ’s Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Databases
2023 Data Submission for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ Databases
New Initiative Offered To Improve Cancer Diagnosis in Primary Care
Impact Case Studies
Learn how AHRQ-funded findings, products and tools have impacted healthcare delivery
AHRQ Research Studies
Careers at AHRQ
Featured Programs
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Making Care Safer in All Settings
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
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).
EvidenceNOW
EvidenceNOW is an AHRQ grant initiative dedicated to improving the heart health of millions of Americans.
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.
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.
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
Featured Product
5-Minute Learning Modules for Frontline Staff
These brief videos offer self-paced learning for those on the front lines of nursing home care. This includes nursing assistants, housekeeping, dietary, and maintenance staff, and others. The modules are also featured in other languages including Haitian Creole, Spanish, and Tagalog.