Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) news and information

Much has changed in the years since the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, companion reports released in 1999 and 2001 that sounded the alarm about high rates of adverse events and the urgent need to adopt proven best practices in healthcare.
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HHS on Wednesday released enhanced standards to help health and healthcare organizations promote health equity, advance quality and remove disparities in healthcare. .
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a revised toolkit hospitals can use to lower their rates of preventable readmissions, particularly among patients with limited English proficiency and patients from diverse backgrounds. The Re-Engineered Discharge Toolkit is based on Project...
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a revised tool kit hospitals can use to lower their rates of preventable readmissions, particularly among patients with limited English proficiency and patients from diverse backgrounds.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a revised toolkit hospitals can use to lower their rates of preventable readmissions.
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The federal agency charged with overseeing healthcare quality has spotlighted a list of 10 patient-safety practices it says will go a long way toward achieving better care and improved patient outcomes.
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“It feels like 6-year-olds playing soccer. For the most part, nobody gets hurt and everyone gets a little better every year.”
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The use of a telemedicine system to self-report blood pressure and other health data remotely seems to help patients improve their blood pressure and make positive lifestyle changes, according to a study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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Dr. Carolyn Clancy defined AHRQ's role in its relationship with the ONC as “anticipatory troubleshooting.”
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Preoperative checklists, proper hand hygiene and barrier precautions to prevent healthcare-associated infections are among the top 10 patient-safety strategies that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says providers can implement immediately to improve healthcare quality.
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