AHRQ is devoted to working with public and private partners to advance research and assist in actions that improve healthcare ...

The lack of reliable and useful quality measures for mental and behavioral health services has been frequently cited by State policymakers. This section tries to address these concerns through a ...

Review the following list of meetings in which falls risk and prevention is potentially discussed by the interdisciplinary team. For every meeting that occurs at your facility, indicate the type of ...

Evidence is always evolving, so practices have to change if they are to stay current. Quality improvement (QI) is a systematic, data-driven process for managing that change. QI starts with the ...

September 26, 2023 AHRQ Awards $45 Million in Grants To Expand Access to Care for People With Long COVID ...

What Is the Minimum Criteria for Common Infections Toolkit and Why Should a Nursing Home Use This Toolkit? Between 25 percent and 75 percent of antibiotic prescriptions in nursing homes do not meet ...

In this module, we will introduce strategies and interventions, as well as adaptive and technical measures, which, when implemented, can help you get your patients off the ventilator faster. In doing ...

Final estimates for 2013 show a further 9 percent decline in the rate of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) from 2012 to 2013, and a 17 percent decline, from 145 to 121 HACs per 1,000 discharges, ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), announced nine grant awards of $1 million each for up to 5 years to support ...

In 2016, AHRQ awarded a contract to develop methods and estimate the incremental inpatient financial costs and additional inpatient mortality associated with 10 selected hospital-acquired conditions ...

Director of Surgical Critical Care and the Medical Director of the Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit Project Dispatch is focused on patient-centered outcomes research and aims to provide clinicians ...

Many organizations are uncertain about how to proceed with designing a workable solution for medication reconciliation. This chapter provides helpful information and tools for designing or redesigning ...