Overall, the rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia increased by more than 100 percent between 2019 and 2021 regardless of hospital type. This increase ranged from 133.9 percent at critical access ...

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Patient experience encompasses the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system, including their care from health plans, and from doctors, nurses, and staff in hospitals, ...

Medical errors may occur in different health care settings, and those that happen in hospitals can have serious consequences. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which has sponsored ...

This student workbook was prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality by RAND Corporation under contract 290-06-00017-7. It is one component of a four-part set of training modules ...

The rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia during inpatient stays increased by 20.1 percent between 2016 and 2019. (Source: AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #313, ...

After selecting the eligible population for a care management program, States must consider how to identify eligible members and how best to target their resources (e.g., care managers, interventions, ...

The purpose of the Best Practices in Public Reporting series is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performance information clear, meaningful, and usable ...

The Patient and Family Engagement module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (or CUSP) Toolkit focuses on an important topic: Making sure patients and their family members understand what ...

How do we manage the change process at the front line? How do we pilot test the new practices? How do we get staff engaged and excited about pressure ulcer prevention? How can we help staff learn new ...

After the Institute of Medicine released its sentinel report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in conjunction with its Federal ...

In 2016, AHRQ awarded a contract to develop methods and estimate the incremental inpatient financial costs and additional inpatient mortality associated with 10 selected hospital-acquired conditions ...