Student Workbook This student workbook was prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality by RAND Corporation under contract 290-06-00017-7. It is one component of a four-part set of ...

Introduction Problem Statement Guidelines summarizing evidence exist to help ensure that patients receive recommended interventions. In addition, consistent guideline adherence may significantly ...

Slides 19-20: Check Your Understanding: Existing Pressure Ulcers Report Quiz Do: Ask participants to answer the quiz questions independently and then discuss as a group. Residents with multiple ...

In this chapter, we discuss care coordination measurement approaches that are still early in their development. We focus on three main areas of development: (1) care coordination measures utilizing ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), recently posted a new funding opportunity to multidisciplinary clinics that care ...

Funding will help implement and evaluate models for delivering comprehensive, coordinated, person-centered care to people with Long COVID. Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

Material Uses Description; Warm Handoffs: A Guide for Staff [PDF, 134 KB]. Inform practice staff about warm handoffs. Handout that defines a warm handoff and explains how to do a warm handoff and why ...

A study published in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and funded and carried out by Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows ...

A new paper addresses the use of algorithms in healthcare, their impact on racial/ethnic disparities in care, and approaches to identify and mitigate biases. The use of algorithms is expanding in many ...

Findings inform distributional cost-benefit analyses for tobacco control policies and related research. In first-of-its-kind research to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the medical costs of ...

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 ...

AHRQ Stats: Healthcare Workforce Participation The number of people working in ambulatory settings of the healthcare sector increased by 5.7 percent between January 2020 and January 2023. In the same ...