In 2022, over 77 percent of U.S. adults were affected by obesity, at least one chronic condition, or both, and that number rose to 99 percent among adults aged 80 and older. A new research findings ...

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 ...

Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) prescription stimulant misuse is associated with being under age 30, being White, and living in metropolitan areas, according to a new evidence ...

Editor’s Note: Due to the Memorial Day holiday, the next issue of AHRQ News Now will be Wednesday, May 28. AHRQ Stats: Priority Conditions and High Healthcare Spending Between 2018 and 2022, 75.1 ...

Between 2016 and 2021, the rate of delivery stays with respiratory-related severe maternal morbidity (SMM) complications increased 137 percent, the rate of stays with renal-related SMM complications ...

Antibiotics are often given to preterm and vulnerable newborns before infections are confirmed in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). In an article published in the Journal of Intensive Care ...

Just 7.3 percent of non-Hispanic Asian adults with a prior COVID-19 infection reported ever having Long COVID as of spring 2023, compared with 14.6 percent of non-Hispanic White adults. (Source: AHRQ ...

As of spring 2023, 19.7 percent of adults with a prior COVID-19 infection living outside of metropolitan statistical areas reported having experienced Long COVID, compared with 12.7 percent of those ...

Among people in the top 5 percent of healthcare expenditure tier in 2021, ambulatory events were the most common type of service, accounting for 38.5 percent of services used. Dental and other medical ...

Emergency departments need to be more effective at coordinating the collection and use of “health-related social needs” information, a new AHRQ-funded study has found. The study, published in BMC ...

In 2021, Non-Hispanic White people were more likely to have higher healthcare expenditures than other race/ethnicity groups, comprising 74.1 percent of people in the top 5 percent healthcare ...

In 2020, among women living in the lowest-income areas, an average of 11 died for every 100,000 maternity admissions—more than twice the average of 5.1 deaths for every 100,000 maternity admissions ...