The human suffering caused by sepsis is shocking. New AHRQ analyses show that in 2021, more than 2 million Americans—roughly equivalent to the population of Phoenix, Arizona—were hospitalized with ...

AHRQ has released new beta software that allows states and healthcare organizations to calculate severe maternal morbidity using readily available inpatient administrative claims data.

Behavioral-developmental health screening aims to provide families with young children the assistance and knowledge to promote foundational brain development during the first 5 years of life. The ...

At AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research (DHR) program, we deliver this value by funding projects that demonstrate how digital healthcare solutions can be designed and implemented to improve patient ...

Diagnostic excellence is challenging––if not impossible––to achieve without true equity. This level of work BY Patients can leave some patients behind. The way current healthcare systems are built 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) ...

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

After this session, you will be able to explain the benefits of SDD-ETT as well as access evidence and resources supporting the switch to SSD-ETT. The design of endotracheal and tracheostomy tubes is ...

Purpose of the tool: The Postpartum Hemorrhage In Situ Simulation tool provides a sample scenario for labor and delivery (L&D) staff to practice teamwork, communication, and technical skills in the ...

According to an AHRQ report to Congress, the number of sepsis-related inpatient stays at non-federal acute care hospitals in the United States increased from 1.8 million in 2016 to 2.5 million in 2021 ...

A new analysis of hospitalized Medicare patients reveals a decline in adverse events since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 13-to-15 percent reduction in adverse events in 2022 compared to ...