Managing chronic illness and changing behavior are challenging and take time for both providers and patients. Yet, often it is chronically ill patients who are called on to manage the broad array of ...

A central pillar of this approach is balancing scientific opportunity with AHRQ’s mission of enhancing the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of health services and access to such services, ...

Date: September 18, 2025Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM EDTThis free virtual research meeting from AHRQ’s Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) program will focus on the integral ...

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Best Practice Summaries Resources to enhance evidence-based safety practices to protect residents and staff ...

Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions (PDF, 11.1 MB) ...

Off-label prescribing is when a physician gives you a drug that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved to treat a condition different than your condition. This practice is legal and ...

Because pressure ulcer care is complex, efforts to improve pressure ulcer prevention require a system approach that will involve organizational change. Bringing about organizational change of any type ...

In the United States, the cost of treating adults with heart disease totaled $100 billion in 2022. A new statistical brief from AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) presents data on the ...

Research has helped to establish effective diagnosis and treatment practices for child and adolescent mental health disorders, but gaps remain in patient-centered studies that explore “what is the ...

Among all federal health insurance providers, Medicare was the highest spender for major diet-related conditions during 2021 and 2022, with an average of $153 billion per year in expenditures. The ...

Today, the National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety (NAA) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the National Healthcare Safety Dashboard, an online ...