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 ...

Primary care is foundational to good health and well-being, providing services that span preventive care to diagnosis and ...

How Community Engagement Can Support Whole-Person Primary Care, a new topic brief from AHRQ, presents four case studies illustrating how primary care practices can effectively engage with their ...

While the in-hospital mortality rate among all patients increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hispanic patients saw the greatest impact, with mortality rates rising by 64.3 percent between 2019 and ...

Clinical preventive services are essential strategies for avoiding disease and promoting well-being for people of all ages. Accessing appropriate screening, counseling, early treatment, vaccines, and ...

Providing healthcare consumers with evidence-based insights and practical guidelines can create value for patients, their families, clinicians and healthcare systems. At AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare ...

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, ...

The Patient’s Role in Diagnostic Safety and Excellence: From Passive Reception Toward Co-Design, a new AHRQ issue brief, highlights the crucial shift in healthcare toward more active patient ...

This free AHRQ summit will address the challenges of emergency department (ED) boarding. The live stream summit will be aimed at identifying hospital- and health system-level solutions to ...

The human suffering caused by sepsis is shocking. New AHRQ analyses show that in 2021, more than 2 million Americans—roughly equivalent to the population of Phoenix, Arizona—were hospitalized with ...