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BLOG | March 16, 2021 Accelerating Progress in Patient Safety
BLOG | March 12, 2021 Helping to Answer Pressing Policy Questions with Data and Analytics
PRESS RELEASE | March 5, 2021 AHRQ Data Highlight Inequities Related to COVID-19 Hospitalizations and How Vaccination Prioritization May Effect Equity
Funding & Grants
AHRQ Grantee Profile: Ronilda Lacson, M.D., Ph.D.
March 24: Funding Opportunity—Implementing Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence
Quality & Patient Safety
Highlights From AHRQ's Patient Safety Network
Public Comments Due April 16: Clinical Algorithms That May Promote Bias in Medical Decision Making
Research
COVID-19-Related Hospitalizations in Nine States, by Race/Ethnicity
COVID-19 Vaccination Prioritization Eligibility by Poverty Level and Race and Ethnicity
Data Collection Devices Popular With Consumers Might Help Control Some Chronic Conditions
Issue Brief: Health IT for Engaging Patients in Emergency Department Diagnoses
Featured Programs
Improving Diagnostic Safety
AHRQ is funding research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and what can be done to prevent them.
Learning Health Systems (LHS)
AHRQ supports patients getting higher quality, safer, more efficient care, and health care delivery organizations becoming better places to work.
HCUP and MEPS
Statistical portraits of how health care is delivered and paid for in the US from data from Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) and Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS).
Network of Patient Safety Databases (NPSD)
An early national portrait of patient safety event reports from AHRQ-listed Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs).
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)
CAHPS surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences.
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)
The CUSP Toolkit improves safety culture by integrating safety practices into daily work of a unit or clinical area.
EvidenceNow
EvidenceNow is an AHRQ grant initiative dedicated to improving the heart health of millions of Americans.
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Featured Video
Announcing the Making Healthcare Safer III Report
AHRQ Report Reviews 47 Practices To Improve Patient Safety
Jeff Brady, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, identifies practices for improving patient safety across a variety of settings and stakeholders.