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August 31, 2025 - Frequently Asked Questions
Check to find the answers to your questions about the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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feedback here. We will respond to your requests based on the bes…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/846922/psn-pdf
March 29, 2023 - Enhancing Support for Patients’ Social Needs to Reduce
Hospital Readmissions and Improve Health Outcomes
March 29, 2023
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/enhancing-support-patients-social-needs-reduce-hospital-readmissions-
and-improve-health
Summary
With increasing recognition that health is linked to the condit…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/cooperatives/evidencenow-executive-summary-southwest.pdf
November 01, 2017 - EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Southwest Cooperative
Southwest Cooperative
EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to transform health care delivery by building a critical infrastructure
to help smaller primary care pract…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/envscan-exec-summary.pdf
March 01, 2017 - Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families--Executive Summary
Environmental Scan Report
Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care
Settings by Engaging Patients and Fam…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/adhd_executive.pdf
October 01, 2011 - Lower SES and minority ethnicity are associated with shorter duration of
medication use. … Also, few
study participants are girls or come from diverse racial
or ethnic groups.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/romano-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - factors included
respondents’ demographic characteristics (e.g., age, sex, educational attainment, ethnicity … The Health Belief Model includes demographic (e.g., age, gender, race/ethnicity) and sociopsychological … included demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, age, educational attainment,
family size, race, ethnicity
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/newman-toker2-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Race and ethnicity were recorded per National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines; when subjects
identified … Continuous outcome variables were analyzed using the student’s t test for
comparison by sex and ethnicity … 34 (4)
No. (%) refuse to answer race 36 (4)
No. (%) Hispanic 31 (4)
No. (%) refuse to answer ethnicity
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February 13, 2018 - primary osteoporosis (ie, osteoporosis
without underlying disease) increases with age and differs by race/ethnicity … osteoporosis (ie, osteoporosis without
underlying disease) increases with age and differs by race/
ethnicity … in women than in men
(15.4% vs 4.3%, respectively).1 The prevalence of osteoporosis
varies by race/ethnicity
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2020-03.pdf
January 01, 2020 - Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population by sex, race, Hispanic or Latino
ethnicity … Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population by sex, race, Hispanic or
Latino ethnicity … Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population by sex, race, Hispanic or Latino
ethnicity
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ch_8-user-guide-to-ocer_130129.pdf
October 01, 2013 - No
Clinical data: inpatient Sometimes* No
Clinical data: outpatient Yes* No
Age/sex Yes Yes
Race/ethnicity … For example, while
ethnicity might be the only missing variable in
an individual record, it could be … Knowing the validity of other key
variables, such as race/ethnicity, within a specific
dataset is essential
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/availability/chipra-235-fullreport.pdf
September 01, 2018 - Identification of Disparities
CHIPRA requires that quality measures be able to identify disparities by race, ethnicity … Race/Ethnicity
This measure does not address any disparities related to race or ethnicity, as the measure
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January 19, 2021 - any tobacco product and there are per-
sistent differences in rates of smoking by age, sex, and race/ethnicity
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/vitamin-d-calcium-or-combined-supplementation-for-the-primary-prevention-of-fractures-in-adults-preventive-medication
April 17, 2018 - In the 5 studies reporting race/ethnicity, 83% to 100% of participants were white; the remaining 3 studies … In the 4 studies that reported race/ethnicity, 83% to 100% of study participants were white; the remaining
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs026544-devine-final-report-2022.pdf
January 01, 2022 - strategy who underwent PGx testing were identified as a
pharmacogene carrier for ACS, based on their race/ethnicity … The age and
race/ethnicity (European, African, and Asian) distribution followed that of the US general
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs018665-storch-final-report-2015.pdf
January 01, 2015 - Disorders 35.3%
Medication Status
Antidepressant 4
Antipsychotic 1
Stimulant 2
Ethnicity … (%) 46 (93.9) 48 (94.1) .716
Parent graduated from college, n (%) 25 (51.0) 26 (51.0) .841
Child ethnicity
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/overview/background/next-steps2.html
December 01, 2009 - Background Report for the Request for Public Comment on Initial, Recommended Core Set of Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Voluntary Use by Medicaid and CHIP Programs
Background Report on request for public comment on initial, recommended core set of Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for voluntary…
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb178-Preventable-Hospitalizations-by-Region.pdf
September 01, 2014 - Geographic Variation in Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations for Acute and Chronic Conditions, 2005-2011
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September 2014
Geographic Variation in Potentially
Preventable Hospitalizations for Acute and
Chronic Conditions, 2005–2011
Celeste M. Torio, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Roxanne M. Andrews, Ph.…
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs024274-alcantara-final-report-2024.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Using eHealth to Expand Access to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in Hispanic Primary Care Patients - Final Report
1. TITLE PAGE
Title: Using eHealth to Expand Access to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in
Hispanic Primary Care Patients
Principal Investig…
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs022938-mitchell-final-report-2017.pdf
January 01, 2017 - Treating Comorbid Depression In Care Transitions with Relational Agents - Final Report
Title of Project: Treating Comorbid Depression In Care Transitions with Relational Agents
Principle …
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/medicare-utilization-seniors_research.pdf
June 01, 2012 - Ethnicity was also
associated with receipt of State support.