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 ...

AHRQ has released new beta software that allows states and healthcare organizations to calculate severe maternal morbidity using readily available inpatient administrative claims data.

Behavioral-developmental health screening aims to provide families with young children the assistance and knowledge to promote foundational brain development during the first 5 years of life. The ...

At AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research (DHR) program, we deliver this value by funding projects that demonstrate how digital healthcare solutions can be designed and implemented to improve patient ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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).

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.