AHRQ offers free toolkits designed for clinicians by clinicians. These toolkits offer actionable guidance on what to do and how to do it. They help clinicians and other healthcare staff hardwire ...

AHRQ News Now Sign up: AHRQ News Now email updates AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities. Electronic Newsletter Archive, 2000-2021 Show: All 2024 ...

Today’s Headlines:Join the IDEAS Project To Advance Diagnostic Safety.Help Shape the Future of AHRQ’s Quality Indicators.Study Identifies Key Areas of Expertise Behind Diagnostic Success.Refining ...

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 ...

People in the top 1 percent of healthcare expenses spent an average of $147,071 in 2022, a decrease of approximately $30,000 from 2021. (Source: AHRQ Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Statistical Brief ...

AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.

Overall, the rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia increased by more than 100 percent between 2019 and 2021 regardless of hospital type. This increase ranged from 133.9 percent at critical access ...

A new interactive tool from AHRQ allows researchers, policymakers and others to explore trends in hospital care for sepsis, a life-threatening condition that is among the most expensive to treat in ...

In 2021, 15.5 percent of current smokers reported transportation issues that resulted in difficulties accessing daily living needs. People with chronic conditions reported similar reliability ...

AHRQ Stats: Prevalence of Long COVID According to IncomeAmong adults who ever had COVID-19, those living in high-income households were less likely to report ever having long COVID (11.0 percent) than ...

The number of sepsis-related inpatient stays at non-federal acute care hospitals in the United States increased from 1.8 million in 2016 to 2.5 million in 2021, with a faster rate of increase ...

Many researchers study the feasibility and value of using CAHPS surveys to support efforts to improve patient experience in various healthcare settings. This page summarizes current and recent ...