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

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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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the CMS have unveiled a new electronic health-record format for children's healthcare, which the agencies say will help EHR vendors to create customized modules for pediatric patients.
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Author, designer and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller said change doesn't come from fighting the existing reality, but by building a new model that makes the existing one obsolete.
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Two federal officials with significant influence in healthcare are leaving the Obama administration. Dr. Carolyn Clancy, who has led HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for nearly a decade, will leave her post “in the coming months,” according to a memo to employees from HHS...
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Dr. Carolyn Clancy, who has led HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for nearly a decade, will leave her post sometime “in the coming months,” according to a memo to employees from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
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A group of 100 hospital neonatal intensive-care units participating in a government-funded quality initiative made big strides in reducing rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections, according to data from HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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By using simulation technology, researchers were able to show something previously thought impossible to prove: the benefits of using surgical checklists in an operating room emergency.
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The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative is criticizing an Annals of Internal Medicine report that concluded there wasn't enough evidence to determine the patient-centered medical-home practice model's effect on clinical outcomes and costs. The collaborative asserts that the report overlooks...
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Here's an interesting statistic from the American Academy of Family Physicians: In areas where there are few physicians, there are still usually more doctors than nurse practitioners.
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The patient-centered medical home practice model "holds promise" for improving patient and staff experiences, but there's not yet enough evidence to determine how the model affects clinical outcomes and costs, a new report concludes.
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