An updated Maternal Health Chartbook (PDF, 5 MB) from AHRQ provides data from 2010 through 2019 on key trends in delivery stays with coexisting conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, mental health ...

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How Community Engagement Can Support Whole-Person Primary Care, a new topic brief from AHRQ, presents four case studies illustrating how primary care practices can effectively engage with their ...

Primary care is foundational to good health and well-being, providing services that span preventive care to diagnosis and ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality of healthcare for all Americans. Providing high-quality care means providing safe, ...

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 ...

The elevation of the head of bed (HOB) to a semirecumbent position (at least 30 degrees) is associated with a decreased incidence of aspiration and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The ...

Before you decide which quality measures to report, it is helpful to know what kinds of data you will need to produce the scores for the measure. Sometimes, the data you want to report already exist ...

Many organizations are uncertain about how to proceed with designing a workable solution for medication reconciliation. This chapter provides helpful information and tools for designing or redesigning ...

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 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 ...

Purpose: To help teams adopt a system-focused approached to event investigation and analysis. Who should use this tool? Event Reporting, Investigation, and Analysis Team. How to use this tool: Review ...