In more than 40 percent of cases, children admitted to the emergency department for community-acquired pneumonia received treatment outside of standard guidelines, according to an AHRQ-supported ...

The American Urological Association has unveiled a new clinical practice guideline for managing genitourinary syndrome of menopause, a condition affecting numerous postmenopausal women. This ...

Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation describes what federally funded programs have accomplished in understanding medical errors and implementing programs to improve patient ...

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 ...

Before you decide which quality measures to report, it is helpful to know what kinds of data you will need to produce the scores for the measure. Sometimes, the data you want to report already exist ...

AHRQ Stats: Total Adult Outpatient Opioid Prescription FillsThere were 68.6 million outpatient prescription opioid fills between 2021 and 2022. Hydrocodone (25.2 million fills), oxycodone (19.2 ...

AHRQ Stats: MRSA Rates by Payer TypeThe rate of MRSA diagnoses on admission among expected self-pay hospitalizations decreased from 130.1 per 10,000 stays in 2019 to 114.1 per 10,000 stays in 2021, ...

A new interactive tool from AHRQ allows researchers, policymakers and others to explore trends in hospital care for sepsis, a life-threatening condition that is among the most expensive to treat in ...

In 2021, 15.5 percent of current smokers reported transportation issues that resulted in difficulties accessing daily living needs. People with chronic conditions reported similar reliability ...

Review the following list of meetings in which falls risk and prevention is potentially discussed by the interdisciplinary team. For every meeting that occurs at your facility, indicate the type of ...

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 ...

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 ...