AHRQ, the federal agency charged with improving health care quality and safety, has staved off death, but it remains unclear ...

WASHINGTON -- A House committee moved a step closer Tuesday to getting rid of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) -- an agency long disliked by some members of Congress. The House ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is on the chopping block — again — and supporters are gearing up for what could be their biggest fight yet to save the little-known agency. In his ...

On March 16, President Trump released his administration’s blueprint for the discretionary portion of the 2018 federal budget. This document is the administration’s signal of its priorities to ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has announced a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) to create a new state-based Healthcare ...

A House Appropriations subcommittee voted Wednesday to go ahead with a controversial bill that would cut $1.3 billion from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) while also eliminating all ...

Here at Health Affairs we take the policy relevance of our work very seriously. As the leading health policy journal in the country, with the highest impact factor in our field, we work assiduously to ...

The new director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) views health data as the key to improving outcomes and quality care, and he envisions the agency adopting a leading role to ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released the Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients. The toolkit helps intensive care unit staff to apply principles and methods ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT wants to use electronic health record certification criteria to make it easier for physicians to report patient safety events, which provide ...

The Trump administration's efforts to downsize the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are causing alarm among public health workers as well as researchers who study patient safety and ...