The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has identified the top 10 patient safety strategies that could immediately enhance patient safety and save lives.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released its new Network of Patient Safety Databases, according to AHRQ's "News Now" newsletter released June 25.

Definition of patient safety culture AHRQ uses the British Health and Safety Commission’s definition of patient safety culture as “the product of individual and group values, attitudes ...

Long-standing efforts to improve the country's healthcare system, including the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, are making a different, according to AHRQ's 2014 ...

The focus will be on patient safety when the window opens for voluntary data submission for the AHRQ SOPS Nursing Home Database from Sept. 1 through Sept. 21.

The AHRQ developed the standard patient safety indicators, or PSIs, in response to the 1999 report on patient safety and medical mistakes released by the prestigious Institute of Medicine.

Jeffrey Schnipper, MD, an internist and clinical researcher at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said his proposal would ...

The 2025 results come from AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Workplace Safety Supplemental Items, which assess how nursing home staff perceive their work environment in terms of ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has issued an evidence-based handbook for nurses focusing on patient safety and quality ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Council on Patient Information and Education have released a new pamphlet which providers can use to help their patients reduce ...

Using the complete hospital discharge records for 2,347 hospitals, Gangopadhyaya compared Black and white patients’ outcomes across 11 AHRQ patient safety indicators—four related to general ...

The dissolution of AHRQ is dislodging scores of experienced patient-safety experts, a brain drain that will be impossible to rectify, she said.