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 ...

The resources in this section are designed to provide comprehensive guidance for healthcare that are considering or planning a decolonization program. These resources cover essential steps, from ...

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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, ...

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 ...

While the in-hospital mortality rate among all patients increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hispanic patients saw the greatest impact, with mortality rates rising by 64.3 percent between 2019 and ...

Among adults who ever had COVID-19, those living in high-income households were less likely to report ever having long COVID (11.0 percent) than those living in middle-income households (15.6 percent) ...

Among adults who reported ever having COVID-19, 13.7 percent reported ever having Long COVID, and women were more likely than men to report ever having long COVID (16.5 percent vs. 10.5 percent).

A Notice of Funding Opportunity from AHRQ seeks applicants to establish and support state-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives to accelerate the dissemination and implementation of patient-centered ...

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 CAHPS Health Literacy Item Sets ask about providers' efforts to foster and improve the health literacy of patients. Health literacy is commonly defined as patients' ability to obtain, process, and ...