Among hospital inpatient stays without COVID-19 in 2021, the median length of stay with a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) was up to six times as long as stays without an HAI. Patients with ...

AHRQ's IMPaCT grants were designed to support State-level primary care improvement efforts using extension agents (i.e., practice coaches)—and to learn how these programs could serve as models for ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care ...

This free webinar from AHRQ’ s Patient Safety Network (PSNet) will highlight the agency’s evidence reports on advancing patient safety in key areas: Failure To Rescue – Rapid Response Systems reviews ...

Take part in a national study to evaluate the impact of resources intended to help prevent diagnostic safety events. Diagnostic safety events are common and pervasive across all healthcare settings, ...

Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A., and Stephen Raab, M.D. As we celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week 2024, AHRQ again places particular emphasis on an aspect of healthcare delivery increasingly ...

A new Special Emphasis Notice from AHRQ signals the agency’s interest in receiving health services research grant applications for addressing Emergency Department (ED) boarding and hospital crowding.

An AHRQ-supported article in Health Affairs discusses the potential of biosimilar drugs to unlock lower drug prices for patients. Biosimilars are much more affordable versions of comparable brand-name ...

AHRQ's Healthcare Simulation Dictionary, Version 3.0 (PDF, 1.8 MB), includes 170 definitions of healthcare simulation terms ranging from “avatars” and “manikins” to “gamification” and “virtual reality ...

“Even when patients were very bothered by incontinence, neither they nor the provider brought it up during healthcare appointments. There is a missing link, and my AHRQ-funded study is helping to fill ...