Take part in a national study to evaluate the impact of resources intended to help prevent diagnostic safety events. Diagnostic safety events are common and pervasive across all healthcare settings, ...

AHRQ's Healthcare Simulation Dictionary, Version 3.0 (PDF, 2 MB), includes 170 definitions of healthcare simulation terms ranging from “avatars” and “manikins” to “gamification” and “virtual reality.” ...

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An AHRQ-supported article in Health Affairs discusses the potential of biosimilar drugs to unlock lower drug prices for patients. Biosimilars are much more affordable versions of comparable brand-name ...

Editor’s Note: Due to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, AHRQ News Now will not publish again until Jan. 7. Black non-Hispanic women and Hispanic women both experienced a 43 percent increase in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Because pressure ulcer care is complex, efforts to improve pressure ulcer prevention require a system approach that will involve organizational change. Bringing about organizational change of any type ...

Hardeep Singh, M.D., M.P.H. Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor ...

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 ...

Detecting and promptly reporting changes in a nursing home resident's condition are critical for ensuring the resident's well-being and safety. Such changes may represent a patient safety problem, and ...

The Institute of Medicine defines health care quality as "the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent ...