AHRQ’s $7.95 million initiative follows President Donald Trump’s September 29, 2026, executive order, Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence. It puts U.S. SI innovation to work for the American ...

The Trump Administration is committed to finding the best ways to lower healthcare costs and improve quality and access for American families,” said AHRQ Director Roger D. Klein, M.D., J.D. “This ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) seeks innovative proposals for scholarly research that advances rigorous, evidence-driven strategies to enhance healthcare competition and expand ...

If your organization decides that implementing part or all of the TeamSTEPPS curriculum would be of value, carefully think through how to implement and sustain what you intend to teach. Successful and ...

AHRQ's Healthcare Simulation Dictionary, Version 3.0 (PDF, 1.8 MB), includes 170 definitions of healthcare simulation terms ranging from “avatars” and “manikins” to “gamification” and “virtual reality ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to healthcare ...

The Monitoring for Perinatal Safety bundle provides information on the use of electronic fetal monitoring (EFM). This bundle offers an approach to the use of EFM based on key safety elements.

Closed-loop communication uses verbal feedback to ensure that messages are correctly understood by recipients using methods including call-outs, check-backs, and teach-back. The illustration below ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS ®) program began in 1995. Its purpose is to boost our scientific understanding of ...

This section provides an overview of the key concepts and tools in the Communication Module.

Medication reconciliation is a complex process that impacts all patients as they move through all health care settings. It is a comparison of the patient's current medication regimen against the ...