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- AHRQ Grants Policy Notices
- AHRQ Informed Consent & Authorization Toolkit for Minimal Risk Research
- HHS Grants Policy Statement
- Federal Regulations & Authorities
- Federal Register Notices
- Public Access to Federally Funded Research
- Protection of Human Subjects
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Learn how AHRQ is leading the effort to combat diagnostic error.
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Areas of Interest

AHRQ’s Patient Safety Work
AHRQ is the lead Federal agency for patient safety research. Our work helps providers make care safer for patients.

Preventing Infections
AHRQ funds work to help frontline providers prevent HAIs by improving how care is delivered to patients.

Learn About Patient Safety
Research-based tools to get your team on board and help them understand and use core concepts of patient safety.

National Steering Committee Releases Patient Safety Action Plan
Achieving safer care and reducing harm to patients and caregivers
AHRQ has developed tools that can help organizations build the capacity for change to make health care safer. By understanding patient safety concepts and how team and individual behaviors and attitudes influence safety culture, teams build the foundations for a future of safer care.
AHRQ has developed a wealth of materials focused on a wide range of patient safety risks in specific healthcare settings: acute, long-term, ambulatory, and more.
Quality improvement measurement tools and information, including AHRQ Quality Indicators Hospital Toolkit, ambulatory clinical performance measures, and TalkingQuality.
Collections of professional and academic publications, reports, and National Action Plans.
AHRQ offers free tools to help prioritize concerns and maximize interactions between providers, patients, and families.
AHRQ is the lead Federal agency for patient safety research. Our work helps providers make care safer for patients.
Evidence-based products and tools provide resources, free continuing education events, and case studies on how our products and tools are being implemented.
Tips for preventing medical errors and promoting patient safety, measuring health care quality, consumer assessment of health plans, evaluation software, report tools, and case studies
- Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation
- Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches
- Advancing Patient Safety: A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation
- Consumer Experience
- Family-Centered Rounds Toolkit
- Home Health Care
- Improving Discharge
- Learning Lab Projects
- MATCH
- Measure Tools & Resources
- Medical Liability
- Preventing Readmissions
- Project ECHO
- Quality & Safety Review System (QSRS)
- Redesign Tool
- Simulation
- Tools
- VT Guide
Funding opportunities for patient safety & quality research.
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The CUSP toolkit includes training tools to make care safer.
Learn about the breadth of AHRQ's Patient Safety and Quality offerings.