The AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Diagnostic Safety Supplemental Items for medical offices were designed to be used in conjunction with the core SOPS Medical Office Survey to help ...

Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, Virginia, uses and contributes to the AHRQ Healthcare Simulation Dictionary, which international simulation experts developed to standardize the ...

Between 2008 and 2019, the percentage of mothers who were uninsured at the time of birth declined among women in two income groups: those in families that earned annual incomes between 0 and 138 ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today announced a new Challenge competition that is intended to demonstrate how the use of AHRQ’s patient safety tools has resulted in safer ...

The in-hospital mortality rate for sepsis stays that did not involve COVID-19 increased by 37.3 percent between 2019 and 2021 at private, for-profit rural hospitals. Mortality rates at private, ...

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) relies on AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program systematic reviews to inform a number of guidelines advising best treatment practices for ...

In 2021, 7.9 percent of adults on Medicare and 20.4 percent of adults on Medicaid faced challenges with daily living due to unreliable transportation. By comparison, just 3.4 percent of adults using ...

An AHRQ-supported article in Health Affairs discusses the potential of biosimilar drugs to unlock lower drug prices for patients. Biosimilars are much more affordable versions of comparable brand-name ...

Sierra Vista Hospital, an 11-bed critical access hospital in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, implemented practices from AHRQ’s Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections ...

Most hospitals adhere to nurse staffing guidelines, but gaps in staffing are reported more frequently at hospitals serving patients who have medical or obstetric complications, a new AHRQ-funded study ...

An estimated 8.1 percent of adults aged 18 years and older received heart disease treatment in 2020. That proportion was highest among those aged 65 and older at 23.9 percent, compared with 6.3 ...