The AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Diagnostic Safety Supplemental Items for medical offices were designed to be used in conjunction with the core SOPS Medical Office Survey to help ...

Appendix B contains data tables showing trends in quality for measures by topic (e.g., Access, Person-Centered Care), as well as single-year disparities information by demographic group (e.g., race, ...

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 ...

The in-hospital mortality rate for sepsis stays that did not involve COVID-19 increased by 37.3 percent between 2019 and 2021 at private, for-profit rural hospitals. Mortality rates at private, ...

Today, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the publication of a new study in Health Affairs that examines the sources of financial strain for patients paying for healthcare ...

As stewards of taxpayer funds, AHRQ must deliver results that matter to the public. Today, I’m pleased to announce that AHRQ is moving toward a strategy that aligns our priorities and funding ...

In 2021, 15.5 percent of current smokers reported transportation issues that resulted in difficulties accessing daily living needs. People with chronic conditions reported similar reliability ...

The University of Georgia Health Center (UHC) used AHRQ’s Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture ™ (SOPS ®) to conduct a required assessment to evaluate the safety culture and quality of its ...

Findings inform distributional cost-benefit analyses for tobacco control policies and related research. In first-of-its-kind research to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the medical costs of ...

An AHRQ-funded study published in Physiological Measurement concluded that a predictive analytics tool called CoMET, developed five years before the COVID-19 pandemic, was very accurate in predicting ...