Prevention TaskForce, an app from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, is available to help healthcare professionals identify which screenings, counseling interventions and preventive medications ...

Diagnostic Excellence in U.S. Rural Healthcare: A Call to Action, a new issue brief from AHRQ, addresses urgent challenges encountered in U.S. rural healthcare to achieve diagnostic excellence, with a ...

In recent days, we at AHRQ have been excited by the enthusiastic response to a Notice of Funding Opportunity that invites ...

Monitoring severe maternal morbidity (SMM) using hospital discharge data is vital to improving maternal health outcomes in the United States. SMM reflects a composite of 20 indicators of unexpected ...

Porcha Carter - In the role of Director of Community Partnerships, Porcha leads the community models in UnitedHealth Group’s Community Strategy portfolio. She is responsible for establishing, growing, ...

Jay Crosson welcomed the group, thanking everyone for their attendance. Each person in the room introduced themselves, sharing their name, location, and organization. Jay then went over the agenda for ...

On September 26, 2024, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) held the Building State Cooperatives for Healthcare Improvement meeting to identify the key components and processes needed ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...