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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/955.html
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Releases Toolkit To Prevent MRSA and Hospital Surgical Site Infections
Issue Number
955
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
April 29, 2025
AHRQ Stats: Total Adult Outpatient Opioid Prescription Fills There were 68.6 million outpatient prescri…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/946.html
February 01, 2025 - New Predictive Model May Help Hospitals Reduce Length of Antibiotic Treatment
Issue Number
946
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
February 18, 2025
AHRQ Stats: Transportation Access Among Adults About 6 percent of U.S. adults reported that a lack…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/939.html
November 01, 2024 - Antibiotic Stewardship Helps Protect Newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Issue Number
939
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
November 26, 2024
AHRQ Stats: Trends in Healthcare-Associated Infections Between 2020 and 2021, the rate of inpatie…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/hepatitis-c-screening
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Final Research Plan
Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: Screening
December 21, 2017
Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. governmen…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/965.html
July 01, 2025 - New Guideline Illuminates Path for Managing Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause
Issue Number
965
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
July 8, 2025
Today’s Headlines: New Guideline Illuminates Path for Managing Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause . …
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/reducing-hospital-readmission-rates-implementing-inpatient-tobacco-cessation
January 01, 2023 - Reducing Hospital Readmission Rates by Implementing an Inpatient Tobacco Cessation Service Driven by Interactive Voice Recognition Technology
Project Final Report ( PDF , 229.85 KB) Disclaimer
Disclaimer
The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cpi/about/how-well-do-you-know-ahrq-quizzes.pdf
September 01, 2024 - How Well Do You Know AHRQ? Quizzes
Are you an AHRQ-o-phile?
1. Which of the following groups does not use AHRQ’s knowledge, tools
and data to make informed health decisions?
a. Health systems
b. Healthcare professionals
c. Chefs
d. Policymakers
…
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www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/resources/measure-domains.html
April 01, 2025 - Resources by the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure Domains
The Patient Safety Structural Measure is an attestation-based measure to assess whether hospitals demonstrate having a structure and culture that prioritizes patient safety. The Patient Safety Structural Measure is informed by the National Action P…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/cooperatives/evidencenow-executive-summary-midwest.pdf
November 01, 2017 - EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Midwest Cooperative
Midwest Cooperative
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
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 s…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/cooperatives/evidencenow-executive-summary-nc.pdf
November 01, 2017 - EvidenceNow Executive Summary - North Carolina Cooperative
North Carolina Cooperative
North Carolina
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 …
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/prescribing-patterns-of-preferred-or-formulary-medications-quick-reference-guide.pdf
April 01, 2009 - Prescribing Patterns of Preferred or Formulary Medications
Advancing Excellence in Health Care www.ahrq.gov
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Health IT
Prescribing Patterns of
Preferred or Formulary
Medications
Evaluating the prescribing patterns of preferred or
formulary medications can help organ…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/adverse-events-near-misses-and-errors
March 30, 2022 - Adverse Events, Near Misses, and Errors
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Adverse Events, Near Misses, and Errors. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2019.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0230-section-5-table-4.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Table 4. Evidence for Prompt Antimicrobial Therapy for Treatment of Children With Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock
Table 4: Evidence for Prompt Antimicrobial Therapy for Treatment of Children with Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock
Type of
Evidence
Key Findings Level of
Evidence
(USPSTF
Ranking*)
Citations
C…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49843/psn-pdf
October 01, 2018 - The patient's blood pressure continued to trend downward to 60/40 mm Hg.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/cost-guide/characteristics.html
February 01, 2017 - Trend analyses were conducted to understand cost trends for clinics that attained recognition and those
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ahrq-healthcare-horizon-scan-protocol-operations-manual-151001.pdf
September 01, 2015 - Horizon
Scanning System
conference paper/ or feasibility study/ or preliminary communication/ or
trend … investigational or new.ti. or
novel or pilot or pipeline or (proof adj2 principle) or translational or trend
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ahrq-healthcare-horizon-scan-protocol-operations-manual-151001.pdf
September 01, 2015 - Horizon
Scanning System
conference paper/ or feasibility study/ or preliminary communication/ or
trend … investigational or new.ti. or
novel or pilot or pipeline or (proof adj2 principle) or translational or trend
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/reports/2003niscomparisonrpt.jsp
May 01, 2016 - CM
Procedure Classes for ICD-9-CM
Surgery Flags for ICD-9-CM
HCUP Supplemental Files
NIS-Trend … Weights Files
NIS Hospital Ownership Files
NIS 1993-2002 Discharge-Level Supplemental Files
KID-Trend … REQUEST DATA
REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS
Favorites
Statistical Briefs
Summary Trend … Including the same hospitals across years improved the precision of trend analyses, although it may have … No trend appears with these differences.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/2014-jason-data-for-individual-health.pdf
January 01, 2014 - The second trend is that behavioral risk factors strongly impact health
and wellness. … health, and the practice of medicine.
3.3 Moving Diagnostics to the Point of Care
An important trend … updating of medical information.
3.3.2 Miniaturizing the diagnostics laboratory
The miniaturization trend … An additional aspect of this miniaturization trend is that the new de
vices are able to upload their … As
discussed further below, there is a trend away from monolithic software archi
tectures and so
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/tech-brief-38-chronic-conditions-comments.pdf
March 01, 2021 - For
example, if you show a directional trend it doesn't mean
that meaningful change has occurred (even … We agree that a
directional trend does not
imply meaningful change. … Peer Reviewer
#2
Methods I highly support the inclusion of surrogate outcomes
(e.g., health trend … growing number of biosensors and
implanted sensor technologies that also record
ambulatory health trend … For example, pacemakers
and implanted cardiac devices measure health
outcomes and health trend data