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

From Passive Reception Toward Co-Design, a new AHRQ issue brief, highlights the crucial shift in healthcare toward more active patient involvement in the diagnostic process. Research indicates that ...

Two new Notices of Funding Opportunity are available for applicants seeking to join AHRQ’s recently launched Healthcare Extension Service: State-based Solutions for Healthcare Improvement: ...

The human suffering caused by sepsis is shocking. New AHRQ analyses show that in 2021, more than 2 million Americans—roughly equivalent to the population of Phoenix, Arizona—were hospitalized with ...

Because pressure ulcer care is complex, efforts to improve pressure ulcer prevention require a system approach that will involve organizational change. Bringing about organizational change of any type ...

Health care delivery systems throughout the United States are employing the triple aim (improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health ...

Preliminary 1 estimates for 2015 show a 21 percent decline in hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) since 2010. A cumulative total of 3.1 million fewer HACs were ...

A Notice of Funding Opportunity seeks applicants to establish and support state-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives to accelerate dissemination and implementation of patient-centered outcomes ...

Whether you call it outpatient surgery, ambulatory surgery*, office surgery, or same-day surgery, it means the same thing: surgical procedures that don't require an overnight hospital stay. Patients ...