The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) was created when Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999.

It has played a pivotal role in contributing to health policy and the delivery of healthcare services in the United States. HSR is important because it touches on all six domains of healthcare quality ...

A new interactive tool from AHRQ allows researchers, policymakers and others to explore trends in hospital care for sepsis, a life-threatening condition that is among the most expensive to treat in U.

Patient safety culture refers to the beliefs, values and norms shared by providers and staff throughout the organization that influence their actions and behaviors. Since 2001, the AHRQ Surveys on ...

In 2021, 7.9 percent of adults on Medicare and 20.4 percent of adults on Medicaid faced challenges with daily living due to unreliable transportation. By comparison, just 3.4 percent of adults using ...

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Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are both important tools for measuring and improving quality of care. PREMs focus on patients’ experiences ...

In 2021, 15.5 percent of current smokers reported transportation issues that resulted in difficulties accessing daily living needs. People with chronic conditions reported similar reliability ...

About 6 percent of U.S. adults reported that a lack of reliable transportation kept them from medical appointments or other important activities for daily living in 2021. In that timeframe, 15.1 ...

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 ...