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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Global Down Syndrome Foundation (GLOBAL) is proud to announce that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) systemic review of the new edition of the GLOBAL Medical Care Guidelines ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Although 29% of all U.S. hospitalizations in 2011 included a surgical procedure, hospitalizations that involved surgery accounted for nearly half of all hospital costs, says a report from the Agency ...

AHRQ recommends an electronic means of dispensing and checking medication. However according to a study published in the (italics) New England Journal of Medicine, (end italics) adoption in the United ...