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

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 ...

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 ...

The in-hospital mortality rate for sepsis stays that did not involve COVID-19 increased by 37.3 percent between 2019 and 2021 at private, for-profit rural hospitals. Mortality rates at private, ...

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Patient experience encompasses the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system, including their care from health plans, and from doctors, nurses, and staff in hospitals, ...

Below are sample protocols for skin decolonization with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) and nasal decolonization with mupirocin or iodophor. Multiple methods for CHG decolonization and nasal ...

The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) framework is a proven method to address patient safety and quality improvement issues. The key to CUSP’s success is that it starts with the frontline ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care ...

The 4 Es framework identifies four important elements when implementing patient safety interventions: Engage, Educate, Execute, and Evaluate. Engaging people encourages open communication, active ...

Clinical preventive services are essential strategies for avoiding disease and promoting well-being for people of all ages. Accessing appropriate screening, counseling, early treatment, vaccines, and ...

Providing healthcare consumers with evidence-based insights and practical guidelines can create value for patients, their families, clinicians and healthcare systems. At AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare ...