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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/bruzzese2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Health Reform and the Physician Shortage HealthLeaders Media Phillip Miller
"We're all scared to death
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-209-fullreport.pdf
June 01, 2019 - The department of
health linked these infants’ birth certificates to death certificates using name and … These
data were derived from hospital records linked to birth and death certificates. … Vital statistics linked birth/infant death and hospital
discharge record linkage for epidemiological … Association between intermittent hypoxemia or
bradycardia and late death or disability in extremely … Effects of targeting higher vs lower arterial oxygen
saturations on death or disability in extremely
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/EvidenceNOW-BSC-MI-profile.pdf
September 01, 2021 - cardiovascular disease
(CVD) burden in the United States, with heart disease the leading cause of death
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/contentcalls/opportunity_estimator-slides/Using-the-Opportunity-Estimator.ppt
July 20, 2010 - Slide 1
Using the CLABSI Opportunity Estimator to Educate, Engage, and Evaluate
Driving Your CLABSI Rate to Zero
Presented by: Jordan Duval-Arnould, MPH
July 20, 2010
Overview
The Opportunity Estimator (O/E)
Integrating O/E into CUSP activities
Science of safety
Educate your staff
Senior executive partnersh…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/index.html
July 01, 2023 - AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer Reports: Shaping Patient Safety Efforts in the 21st Century
AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer reports consolidate information for healthcare providers, health system administrators, researchers, and government agencies about practices that can improve patient safety across the health…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2018qdr-appa4.pdf
January 01, 2018 - 2018 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Appendix A
2018 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report | A.4-1
APPENDIX A. LIST OF MEASURES AND SUMMARY OF RESULTS FOR FIGURES
A.4. Disparities: Income
Measures included in Figure 101: Number and percentage of quality measures for which income…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/taber-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - adverse drug events on clinical outcomes,
including acute rejections, infections, graft loss, and death … Parasuraman, et al. showed that infectious etiologies
surpassed rejections as the leading cause of death-censored … Annual death rates are more than three times higher in those with kidney allograft failure (9.4%)
than … There was one death in the control arm, due to ovarian cancer that was likely present and
undiagnosed
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol-pcor.pdf
November 01, 2016 - are
meaningful to patients and families,
such as pain, symptoms, quality of
life, and premature death
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/bindman-summit2016.pdf
May 01, 2016 - >$500 million
AHRQ’s Patient Safety Budget
$76 Million
For one of the major leading
causes of death
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Reiling.pdf
January 01, 2004 - The IOM reported that the probability of a
hospital preventable medical death will occur in the range
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/hhs_ed_boarding_may30.pdf
May 30, 2023 - Letter to HHS Secretary on Emergency Department Boarding
May 30, 2023
The Honorable Xavier Becerra
Secretary
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C., 20201
Dear Secretary Becerra:
We write to you today with deep concern about the growing public health …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/clabsitools/clabsitoolsap2.doc
January 01, 2011 - Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
Fact Sheet
Bottom line
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) result annually in:
· 84,551 to 203,916 preventable infections
· 10,426 to 25,145 preventable deaths
· $1.7 to $21.4 billion avoidable costs
The following interventions decrease the risk …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2023-NHQDR-appendixes-ACDE.pdf
January 01, 2023 - Because death rates often reflect factors other than healthcare, only death rates with
moderate ties … For example, colorectal cancer death rates
are tracked because they are related to rates of colorectal … Tuberculosis Surveillance System (NTSS)
• National Vital Statistics System—Linked Birth and Infant Death … Tuberculosis Surveillance System
• NVSS-L: National Vital Statistics System—Linked Birth and Infant Death
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2023-NHQDR-appendixes-ACDE-rev.pdf
January 01, 2023 - Because death rates often reflect factors other than healthcare, only death rates with
moderate ties … For example, colorectal cancer death rates
are tracked because they are related to rates of colorectal … Tuberculosis Surveillance System (NTSS)
• National Vital Statistics System—Linked Birth and Infant Death … Tuberculosis Surveillance System
• NVSS-L: National Vital Statistics System—Linked Birth and Infant Death
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/obesity_topic-refinement.pdf
May 22, 2014 - leakage)
● Nutritional deficiencies (including eating disorders)
● Procedural complications (including death … of any
medically determinable physical or mental impairment(s) which can be expected to result in
death … condition(s);
and your disability has lasted or is expected to last for at least one year or to result in death
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/stein-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - mortality, causes 9% of pregnancy-related maternal deaths, and is the
leading cause of pregnancy-related death
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/958.html
May 01, 2025 - McHugh began by targeting heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/ahrq-network-factsheet.pdf
February 01, 2022 - AHRQ's Role in Nursing Home COVID-19 Response
AHRQ’s Role in Nursing Home COVID-19 Response
BACKGROUND
Nearly 20 percent of the known COVID-19 deaths in the United
States have been nursing home residents and staff. Advanced
age, underlying frailty, and communal living con…
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/labels/limit-info.html
November 01, 2018 - Limit Technical Information and Caveats in Quality Data Displays
It is very easy to say too much about each of your measures. Many health professionals worry that unless they provide the same level of detail in and around a graph as they would in a report for management or providers, or in an academic paper, th…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/dx-improvement/dx-journey-presenter-notes.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Kane’s death. The story is told from
the perspective of Mr. … reality‐based case is about a patient whose diagnostic journey included
a delayed diagnosis and ended in death … transplant when his dialysis began to fail, an eventual diagnosis of lung cancer
resulted in his untimely death