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1. Blacks Experiencing Fast-Rising Rates of Overdose Deaths Involving Synthetic Opioids Other Than Methadone (pdf file)
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   February 20, 2020 - Blacks Experiencing Fast-Rising Rates of Overdose Deaths Involving Synthetic Opioids Other Than Methadone … 1 Blacks Experiencing Fast-Rising Rates of Overdose Deaths Involving Synthetic … The measure of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone describes individuals … Recent data have shown that fentanyl-related overdose deaths are heavily contributing to the opioid … Drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, 2011-2016. Natl Vital Stat Rep 2019;68(3).

2. The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: We Still Have Much Work to Do | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2022 - ) or non-Hispanic Black (4.6 deaths per 100,000 population) adolescents. … The overall maternal mortality rate in 2020 was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, up from 20.1 deaths … in 2019 and 17.4 deaths in 2018. … Although the rise in opioid-related deaths had briefly flattened between 2017–2018, rates of overdose … deaths involving any opioid have begun to rise again, increasing by 36.8 percent between 2019 and 2020

3. Saving Lives and Saving Money: Hospital-Acquired Conditions Update | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2018 - drug events (ADEs), although declines in other HACs also contributed significantly to deaths averted … Cumulative deaths averted from 2010 through 2014 are estimated at nearly 87,000. … Total Annual and Cumulative Deaths Averted (Compared With 2010 Baseline)   Exhibit 6. … , with approximately 70,000 of these deaths averted in 2013 and 2014 alone, is encouraging. … Even with less precision, the estimates of deaths averted and cost savings are compelling.

4. Data and Analytics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2023 - Changes in Hospitalizations and In-Hospital Deaths in the Initial Period of the COVID-19 Pandemic (April–December … Ethnicity, 2020 , HCUP Statistical Brief #276 (PDF, 395 KB) Changes in Hospitalizations and In-Hospital Deaths … 2020), 13 States , HCUP Statistical Brief #282 Changes in Pediatric Hospitalizations and In-Hospital Deaths … 13 States , HCUP Statistical Brief #283 (PDF, 359 KB) Changes in Hospitalizations and In-Hospital Deaths … 13 States , HCUP Statistical Brief #284 (PDF, 387 KB) Changes in Hospitalizations and In-Hospital Deaths

5. Final Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
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   December 01, 2016 - Results The methods for this 2014 update on the rates and counts of HACs and associated costs and deaths … Cumulative deaths averted from 2010 through 2014 are estimated at nearly 87,000. … As a result of this variation, costs associated and deaths averted by HAC type, as shown in Exhibits … , with approximately 70,000 of these deaths averted in 2013 and 2014 alone, is encouraging. … Even with less precision, the estimates of deaths averted and cost savings are compelling.

6. 2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Executive Summary (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2021 -  From 2000 to 2018, the rate of colon cancer deaths decreased 36%, from 20.8 to 13.4 deaths per …  Suicide death rates rose 23%, going from 14.0 deaths to 17.2 deaths per 100,000 population between … From 2000 to 2018, HIV deaths in Black populations decreased from 23.3 deaths to 6.2 deaths per 100,000 … Still, deaths in Black populations remain more than 6 times as high as HIV deaths in White populations … (0.9 deaths per 100,000 population)

7. National Scorecard on Rates of Hospital-Acquired Conditions 2010 to 2015: Interim Data From National Efforts To Make Health Care Safer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2016 - Cumulative deaths averted from 2010 through 2015 are estimated at nearly 125,000. … Due to this variation, costs associated and deaths averted by HAC type are not directly proportional … Total Annual and Cumulative Deaths Averted (Compared With 2010 Baseline) Preliminary 2015 estimates … As is the case for the estimate of deaths averted, there is less precision regarding the cost savings … Even with less precision, the estimates of deaths averted and cost savings are compelling.

8. AHRQ Views: For Women’s Health Week, Let’s Make Prevention Primary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2023 - May 16, 2023 AHRQ Stats—Maternal Deaths by Age Among women who gave birth in 2019, those aged 25 … to 34 years were nearly twice as likely to die during a delivery hospitalization (5.2 deaths per 100,000 … hospitalizations) as those aged 18 to 24 (2.6 deaths per 100,000 hospitalizations). … Women aged 35 to 55 years were more than three times as likely to die (9.5 deaths per 100,000 hospitalizations … While breast cancer screening has helped reduce U.S. patient deaths by nearly 40 percent since 1990,

9. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2024 - may represent unrecognized COVID-19 deaths, deaths caused by interruptions in health care during the … pandemic, and/or deaths from the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic. … A total of 162,886 of these excess natural-cause deaths were not reported to COVID-19. … -19 deaths. … Increases in reported COVID-19 deaths were temporally associated with increases in excess deaths reported

10. About AHRQ's Work on Opioids and Substance Use Disorders | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2021 - Opportunities About AHRQ's Work on Opioids and Substance Use Disorders Deaths … The rise in drug overdose deaths was initially driven by misuse of prescription opioids but is now also

11. Data Spotlights | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Healthcare Workforce  (PDF, 1 MB) Hospital deaths for common heart conditions increased while hospitalizations … Blacks experiencing fast-rising rates of overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone

12. Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2019 - hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and injuries from falls helped prevent 20,700 deaths

13. AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Updated Baseline Rates and Preliminary Results 2014-2017 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2019 - estimates of approximately $7.7 billion in costs saved and approximately 20,500 HAC-related inpatient deaths … Projected cost savings and deaths averted due to HAC changes to date from 2015 through preliminary 2017 … National Goals for 2019 Based on 2014 NHR Baseline (Projected Reductions in HACs, Costs, and Deaths) … HAC reduction goals for 2015 to 2019 based on new 2014 baseline and projected cost savings and deaths … National Goals for 2019 Based on 2014 NHR Baseline (Projected Reductions in HACs, Costs, and Deaths)

14. AHRQ Stats | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2023 - aged 18 to 24 (2.6 deaths per 100,000 hospitalizations). … COVID-19 was the third most common cause at 85.0 deaths per 100,000 people. … Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids From 2018 to 2020, the overall rate of drug overdose deaths involving … , an increase from 20.1 deaths in 2019 and 17.4 in 2018. … per 10,000 stays) as compared with type 1 (20 deaths per 10,000 stays).

15. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Creates Perinatal Mental Health Clinical Practice Guidelines Using AHRQ Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - According to recent CDC data , mental health conditions (including deaths from suicide and overdose/ … Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of all maternal deaths can be attributed to mental health causes.

16. Issues With Electronic Health Records Contribute to Diagnostic Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2023 - May 9, 2023 AHRQ Stats: Maternal Deaths by Race Non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic Asian Pacific … Islander mothers experienced 9.4 and 9.3 deaths per 100,000 delivery hospitalizations respectively in … 2019, nearly three times the 3.5 deaths per 100,000 delivery hospitalizations among Non-Hispanic White

17. Opioids AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2018 - Opioids AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice Opioids Deaths from … In response to dramatic increases in opioid-related illnesses and deaths, the Department of Health … Services is focused on implementing evidence-based approaches to reduce opioid misuse, overdoses and deaths

18. Mourning the Loss of Deputy Director David Meyers, M.D. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Hospital Deaths for Heart Conditions Increased While Hospitalizations Decreased During the First Year … Hospital Deaths for Heart Conditions Increased While Hospitalizations Decreased During the First Year … AHRQ shows that hospital admissions for heart failure decreased by 15 percent from 2019 to 2020, while deaths

19. Study Finds Evidence of Intentional Inappropriate Painkiller Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - January 17, 2023 AHRQ Stats: Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids From 2018 to 2020, the overall rate … of drug overdose deaths involving opioids increased from 14.6 per 100,000 population to 21.4. … Since deaths from MIS-C increase with the number of organ systems affected, researchers concluded that

20. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 20, 2016 - attention of the health care community and the public on the estimation that between 48,000 and 98,000 deaths … • Understanding of system processes is necessary to take proactive steps to reduce preventable deaths