The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is the Nation’s most comprehensive source of hospital data, including information on inpatient stays, ambulatory surgery and services, and emergency ...

The purpose of the Best Practices in Public Reporting series is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performance information clear, meaningful, and usable ...

An environment where providers are 'tuned in' to the residents. One where staff are punished for reporting safety concerns. One where people only feel comfortable to ...

AHRQ is a federal leader in efforts to advance patient and healthcare worker safety, and we are proud that the National ...

Patient health status or quality of life. Patient, provider, and population attitudes and behavior. New evidence, research, prevention strategies, treatments, and care models. For example, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health literate healthcare organizations make it easier for people to navigate, understand, and use information and services to take care of their health. This page displays the many AHRQ resources ...

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 ...

Purpose: To guide an organization in developing and implementing a Care for the Caregiver program. Who should use this tool? The Care for the Caregiver Program Lead How to use this tool: Use this ...

This section of the toolkit offers some strategies for those who seek to serve as change agents in their organizations to improve the informed consent and authorization process. Post AHRQ sample ...

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 ...