PurposePatient Safety Organizations (PSOs) conduct activities to improve the safety and quality of patient care. PSOs create a legally secure environment (conferring privilege and confidentiality) ...

Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Toolkit This toolkit assists hospital staff in implementing effective pressure ulcer prevention practices through an interdisciplinary approach to care.

Latest available findings on quality of and access to healthcare ...

The AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Final Results for 2014 Through 2017 (PDF, 787 KB) is a report that shows progress toward the goal of reducing hospital-acquired conditions ...

Welcome to the Toolkit for Improving Skin Care and MDRO Prevention in Long-Term Care, developed in the AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention. Effective infection prevention interventions in ...

Background: The purpose of this tool is to determine if your facility has a process to screen patients for pressure ulcer risk. The tool is one of a series of Facility Assessment Checklists developed ...

Note: Resources on this page were used in testing the Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families. The materials were ...

A study published in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and funded and carried out by Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows ...

A new paper addresses the use of algorithms in healthcare, their impact on racial/ethnic disparities in care, and approaches to identify and mitigate biases. The use of algorithms is expanding in many ...

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, with a faster rate of increase ...

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 ...

Patients are at higher risk of excessive bleeding when taking both blood thinners and aspirin together, according to an AHRQ-funded study published in American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.