Purpose of the tool: The Postpartum Hemorrhage In Situ Simulation tool provides a sample scenario for labor and delivery (L&D) staff to practice teamwork, communication, and technical skills in the ...

A new analysis of hospitalized Medicare patients reveals a decline in adverse events since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 13-to-15 percent reduction in adverse events in 2022 compared to ...

This free pre-application technical assistance webinar is for organizations seeking to become one of AHRQ’s Healthcare Extension Cooperatives, a central part of AHRQ’s emerging Healthcare Extension ...

According to an AHRQ report to Congress, 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 ...

Among adults who reported ever having COVID-19, 13.7 percent reported ever having Long COVID, and women were more likely than men to report ever having long COVID (16.5 percent vs. 10.5 percent).

September 12, 2023 AHRQ Views Blog Post: With TeamSTEPPS 3.0, AHRQ Refreshes a Landmark Patient Safety Training Curriculum ...

The report, titled “An Assessment of Sepsis in the United States and its Burden on Hospital Care,” responds to language in the Joint Explanatory Statement that accompanied the Consolidated ...

AHRQ is a federal leader in efforts to advance patient and healthcare worker safety, and we are proud that the National ...

Person-centered data often are not easily shared from one health setting to another, in part because electronic health records (EHR) at different settings don’t “talk” to one another.

Health care delivery systems throughout the United States are employing the triple aim (improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health ...

Care coordination means different things to different people; no consensus definition has fully evolved. A recent systematic review identified over 40 definitions of the term "care coordination." 2 ...