Measures used to assess and compare the quality of health care organizations are classified as either a structure, process, or outcome measure. Known as the Donabedian model, this classification ...

As we celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week 2024, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) also marks its 35th anniversary. This milestone, under the banner "Today's Research, ...

Updated June 2014 Prepared by: Kathryn M. Updated June 2014 Prepared by: Kathryn M. McDonald, M.M. 1; Ellen Schultz, M.S. 1; Lauren Albin, B.A. 1; Noelle Pineda, B.A ...

AHRQ established the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Medical Office Survey Database as a central repository for survey data from medical offices that have administered the AHRQ patient ...

The Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit helps hospitals re-design their discharge processes to reduce readmissions and post-hospital emergency department visits. Geared particularly hospitals that ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to healthcare ...

Each year, Federal agencies must develop and present to Congress their budget requests for the coming fiscal year. All requests are in the President's budget, which is presented to Congress. At the ...

An integral part of delivering high-quality healthcare is understanding the social determinants of health (SDOH) of patients and of communities in which healthcare is provided. The World Health ...

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) ...

Today, the National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety (NAA) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the National Healthcare Safety Dashboard, an online ...

Background: The purpose of this tool is to determine if your facility has a process to screen patients for pressure ulcer risk. The tool is one of a series of Facility Assessment Checklists developed ...

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 ...