Over the last decade, there has been a tremendous growth in user-generated content about healthcare experiences. At the same time, Americans are increasingly seeking out online reviews of health care ...

Join a webinar presented by the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI) Team to learn about highlights of the AHRQ QI v2025 software on September 16, 3:30–4:30 p.m. ET. The presentation will be followed by a ...

The CAHPS Health Plan Survey is a tool for collecting standardized information on enrollees' experiences with health plans and their services. Since its launch in 1997, this survey has become the ...

In 2021, AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) asked adults in rural and nonrural areas to describe medical care availability in their neighborhoods. About 17.7 percent of those in ...

In the United States, the cost of treating adults with heart disease totaled $100 billion in 2022. A new statistical brief from AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) presents data on the ...

Diagnostic safety events are common and pervasive across all healthcare settings. AHRQ recently developed several resources, including Calibrate Dx, to help healthcare organizations improve diagnostic ...

Care coordination in the primary care practice involves deliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with a patient's care to achieve ...

The rate of MRSA diagnoses on admission among expected self-pay hospitalizations decreased from 130.1 per 10,000 stays in 2019 to 114.1 per 10,000 stays in 2021, and the rate among hospitalizations ...

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 ...

AHRQ’s evidence-based tools and resources are used by organizations nationwide to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care. AHRQ has worked with experts in primary ...

The rate of severe maternal morbidity increased 40 percent between 2016 and 2021, from 72 cases for every 10,000-delivery hospital stays in 2016 to 101.1 per 10,000 in 2021. (Source: AHRQ Healthcare ...

Among adults who ever had COVID-19, those living in high-income households were less likely to report ever having long COVID (11.0 percent) than those living in middle-income households (15.6 percent) ...