Gustavo Faissol Janot de Matos, M.D., Ph.D. Luciana Carvalho Moura Tralli, RN, M.Sc., M.B.A. Rosane Oliveira Simões, RN Fernanda Paulino Fernandes, RN, M.B.A. (also ...

The report, titled “An Assessment of Sepsis in the United States and its Burden on Hospital Care,” responds to language in the Joint Explanatory Statement that accompanied the Consolidated ...

AHRQ is a federal leader in efforts to advance patient and healthcare worker safety, and we are proud that the National ...

Person-centered data often are not easily shared from one health setting to another, in part because electronic health records (EHR) at different settings don’t “talk” to one another.

Health care delivery systems throughout the United States are employing the triple aim (improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health ...

Care coordination means different things to different people; no consensus definition has fully evolved. A recent systematic review identified over 40 definitions of the term "care coordination." 2 ...

A Notice of Funding Opportunity from AHRQ seeks applicants to establish and support state-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives to accelerate the dissemination and implementation of patient-centered ...

AHRQ's Healthcare Extension Service is funded through a major investment from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund, established by Section 6301 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to advance ...

After the Institute of Medicine released its sentinel report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in conjunction with its Federal ...

Since 2016, aggregate hospital costs for sepsis stays increased by 66.8 percent, reaching $52.1 billion in 2021. More than 70 percent of the costs of sepsis inpatient stays were billed to public ...