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Patient experience encompasses the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system, including their care from health plans, and from doctors, nurses, and staff in hospitals, ...

Funding will help implement and evaluate models for delivering comprehensive, coordinated, person-centered care to people with Long COVID. Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

Major Study Finds Significant National Patient Safety Improvement Press Release Date: July 12, 2022 ...

Findings inform distributional cost-benefit analyses for tobacco control policies and related research. In first-of-its-kind research to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the medical costs of ...

Patients are at higher risk of excessive bleeding when taking both blood thinners and aspirin together, according to an AHRQ-funded study published in American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.

New Dashboard to Track Progress Toward 50 Percent Reduction in Patient and Workforce Harm Press Release Date: December 5, 2024 ...

The number of sepsis-related inpatient stays at non-federal acute care hospitals in the United States increased from 1.8 million in 2016 to 2.5 million in 2021, with a faster rate of increase ...

People in the top 1 percent of healthcare expenses spent an average of $147,071 in 2022, a decrease of approximately $30,000 from 2021. (Source: AHRQ Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Statistical Brief ...

AHRQ Stats: Prevalence of Long COVID According to IncomeAmong adults who ever had COVID-19, those living in high-income households were less likely to report ever having long COVID (11.0 percent) than ...

Overall, the rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia increased by more than 100 percent between 2019 and 2021 regardless of hospital type. This increase ranged from 133.9 percent at critical access ...