High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack, heart failure, stroke and chronic kidney disease. High blood pressure is very common, affecting about 30 percent of adults in the United ...

Overview Dartmouth College’s Center of Excellence is collaborating with the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard University, and the High Value Healthcare Collaborative to study the use of ...

Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual health observance held in March that is sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)/National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF). As the ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) have awarded $40 million in grants over 5 years to 11 institutions to support the ...

Slide 1: Build a Business Case for Quality Improvement Say: This slide set introduces building a business case for quality improvement. Slide 2: Learning Objectives Say: After reviewing this slide set ...

To develop search terms for cost and mortality outcomes, we focused search criteria on terms likely to produce articles on inpatient stays and methods that allow for calculating attributable or excess ...

Many organizations are interested in assessing and improving patient experience with behavioral health, mental health, and/or substance use disorder services. Three CAHPS products are available to ...

Social Determinants of Health Database These files contain version 1 of AHRQ’s database on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), which was created under a project funded by the Patient Centered ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), announced nine grant awards of $1 million each for up to 5 years to support ...

Stakeholder support, beginning with program design and continuing through the evaluation, is critical to a successful Medicaid care management program. Stakeholders should be involved during each ...

Patient SafetyAs the lead federal agency for advancing patient safety, AHRQ invests in research and implementation projects that bridge the gap between research and the delivery of safer patient care.

AHRQ Quality Indicators (AHRQ QIs) are standardized, evidence-based measures of healthcare quality that can be used to measure and track clinical performance and outcomes.