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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
CDC: Coronavirus Disease Situation Summary
BLOG | July 1, 2020
Expanding Telehealth and Telementoring During COVID-19: AHRQ’s Expertise Helps Identify Next Steps
BLOG | June 30, 2020
Maximizing the Impact of Federally Funded Health Services Research and Primary Care Research
Quality & Patient Safety
Perspectives on Safety: AHRQ's Patient Safety Network
Patient Safety Primer: Protecting Nursing Home Residents From COVID-19
Patient Safety Network Issue Brief: Operational Measurement of Diagnostic Safety
Funding & Grants
AHRQ Grantee Profile: Nicholas G. Castle, Ph.D., M.H.A.
Available Administrative Flexibilities for AHRQ Grantees Due to COVID-19
Featured Programs
AHRQ is funding research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and what can be done to prevent them.
AHRQ supports patients getting higher quality, safer, more efficient care, and health care delivery organizations becoming better places to work.
Statistical portraits of how health care is delivered and paid for in the United States.
An early national portrait of patient safety event reports from AHRQ-listed Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs).
CAHPS surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences.
Discover the latest literature, news, and expert commentary on patient safety topics.
The CUSP Toolkit improves safety culture by integrating safety practices into daily work of a unit or clinical area.
EvidenceNow is an AHRQ grant initiative dedicated to improving the heart health of millions of Americans.
About our
work at AHRQ
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. We accomplish our mission by focusing on our three core competencies.
AHRQ invests in research that generates evidence about how to deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.
AHRQ creates tools and strategies to help health systems and frontline clinicians deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.
AHRQ data and analysis help healthcare decision makers understand how the US healthcare system is working and where there are opportunities for improvement.
Advancing healthcare quality, safety, and effectiveness through the evolving digital healthcare system.
