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

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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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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