December 12, 2023 First-of-Its-Kind Study Examines Disparities in Healthcare Costs and Outcomes of Cigarette Smoking in the United States ...

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.” ...

A new Special Emphasis Notice from AHRQ signals the agency’s interest in receiving health services research grant applications for addressing Emergency Department (ED) boarding and hospital crowding.

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 ...

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 ...

Evidence is always evolving, so practices have to change if they are to stay current. Quality improvement (QI) is a systematic, data-driven process for managing that change. QI starts with the ...

Review the following list of meetings in which falls risk and prevention is potentially discussed by the interdisciplinary team. For every meeting that occurs at your facility, indicate the type of ...

OpenNotes is a tool that gives patients access to their medical records so they can read encounter notes. Patients can access their notes online through the patient portal or in hard copy from a ...

This document addresses the growing need for translating CAHPS surveys from English into a variety of languages in a cost-effective, yet culturally competent manner. It provides the Agency for ...

The Role of the Nurse Manager module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (or CUSP) Toolkit addresses the role of nursing leaders for your quality improvement initiative. This module ...

The Patient and Family Engagement module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (or CUSP) Toolkit focuses on an important topic: Making sure patients and their family members understand what ...