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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s publications offer practical information to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.
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This guide from the Effective Health Care Program discusses noninvasive treatments for low back pain. The summary is greater than 3 years old. Findings may be used for research purposes but should not be considered current.
Publication Date: February 2016
Publication Number: A1617-EHC004-A
This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of Black healthcare from the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report and figures illustrating select measures of Black healthcare.A PowerPoint version is also available that users can download for presentations.
Publication Date: February 2016
Publication Number: 16-0015-1-EF
This guide informs developers of feedback reports about evidence-based strategies to consider when developing or refining a feedback reporting system.
Publication Date: February 2016
Publication Number: 16-0017-EF
This consumer guide from the Effective Health Care Program discusses medicines to treat alcohol use disorder.
Publication Date: February 2016
Publication Number: A1416-EHC029-A
This tool was designed primarily for users of AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture. The tool is intended for use after your organization administers the survey and analyzes the results. It provides step-by-step guidance to help survey users develop an action plan to improve patient safety culture.
Publication Date: December 2015
Publication Number: 16-0008-EF

This document provides preliminary estimates for 2014 on hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), indicating a 17 percent decline, from 145 to 121 HACs per 1,000 discharges, from 2010 to 2014. A cumulative total of 2.1 million fewer HACs were experienced by hospital patients in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 relative to the number of HACs that would have occurred if rates had remained steady at the 2010 level. Approximately 87,000 fewer patients died in the hospital as a result of the reduction in HACs, and approximately $19.8 billion in healthcare costs were saved from 2010 to 2014.
Publication Date: November 2015
Publication Number: 16-0009-EF

This facilitator’s guide assists in reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections, or CAUTI, especially in intensive care units.
Publication Date: October 2015
Publication Number: 15-0073-4-EF

Final Report on 2013 Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate.
Publication Date: October 2015
Publication Number: 16-0006-EF

This final project report presents an overview of all evaluation products from the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program, a synthesis of select findings from the national evaluation, observations on the grant program itself, and lessons learned in conducting the evaluation.
Publication Date: October 2015
Publication Number: 16-0007-EF

This guide was developed based on the experiences and lessons learned from the 15 AHRQ Estimating Costs grants.
Publication Date: October 2015
Publication Number: 15-0066-3-EF