Population version: Adult. These supplemental items address various issues related to patients' health literacy in hospital settings. For more information about these items and the measures they ...

Hospitals Evacuate Following Hurricane Katrina. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, hospitals in New Orleans ultimately evacuated due to loss of power, city water, civil unrest, and flooding. 6-9 ...

High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack, heart failure, stroke and chronic kidney disease. High blood pressure is very common, affecting about 30 percent of adults in the United ...

4.3 How do we put the new practices into operation? After you determine the bundle of pressure ulcer prevention practices (described in section 3) and how roles will be defined and work organized to ...

Problem Statement: Health care delivery is a multidisciplinary practice that requires coordination of care among different professions and provider types. However, health care providers often do not ...

Prior versions of this analysis reported the excess cost per CLABSI at $16,550, an estimate used by the CDC. 6 However, to better assess the estimated excess costs averted as a result of the ...

This report describes the development, testing, and evaluation of the Health Care Safety Hotline, a prototype system for collecting narrative and structured data from consumers and patients on their ...

AHRQ's resources on emergency departments (EDs) include research studies, data and analytics, and tools designed to improve patient safety and the delivery of care. Topics explored include ED boarding ...

Many organizations are uncertain about how to proceed with designing a workable solution for medication reconciliation. This chapter provides helpful information and tools for designing or redesigning ...

AHRQ Views AHRQ Views blog posts offer insights into current healthcare issues and describe how AHRQ is working to make healthcare safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable.

A public health emergency can strain the capacity of hospitals and other traditional venues for medical services. In such emergencies, it may be necessary to select alternate facilities for providing ...

In 1999, the CAHPS research team began work on a survey that would assess patients' experiences with medical groups and clinicians. Working in collaboration with the Pacific Business Group on Health, ...