Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

National Steering Committee Releases Patient Safety Action Plan

National Steering Committee Releases Patient Safety Action Plan

Achieving safer care and reducing harm to patients and caregivers

Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality

Learn how AHRQ is leading the effort to combat diagnostic error.

Question Builder App

As easy as 1-2-3, learn about AHRQ’s Question Builder App to prepare for medical appointments and maximize visit time.

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.

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.

As the Nation's patient safety agency, AHRQ is observing Patient Safety Awareness Week March 8-14 to increase awareness about patient safety among health professionals, patients, and families. Join us as we help to bring together and engage healthcare professionals and patients to make care safer.

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