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About our work at AHRQ. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) | Agency for Healthcare …
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recognizes that revitalizing the Nation’s primary care system is foundational to achieving high-quality, accessible, efficient health care for all Americans. The primary care medical home, also referred to as the patient centered medical home (PCMH), advanced primary care, and the healthcare home ...
Types of Health Care Quality Measures
Structural measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity, systems, and processes to provide high-quality care. For example: Whether the health care organization uses electronic medical records or medication order entry systems. The number or proportion of board-certified physicians. The ratio of providers to patients.
Comparative Reports on Hospitals
Synopsis: Cal Hospital Compare rates hospitals in California on clinical quality, patient experience, and patient safety. Ratings, which include superior, above average, average, below average, and poor, are developed using analysis and scoring of multiple sources of public data. Users can filter measures by angioplasty, blood clots, heart ...
Access to Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Access to health care means having 'the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes.' Access to health care consists of four components: Coverage: facilitates entry into the health care system. Uninsured people are less likely to receive medical care and more likely to have poor health status. Services: Having a usual source of care is associated …
Funding & Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AHRQ contract opportunities and requests for proposals, including information on SAM.gov, important notices and the Contract Solicitation Archive. Policies and procedures, grant announcements, contract solicitations, special initiatives, call for partners, small business innovation research, and research dissertations, training, and career ...
CAHPS Patient Experience Surveys and Guidance
CAHPS surveys ask patients to report on their experiences with a range of healthcare services at multiple levels of the delivery system. Some CAHPS surveys ask about patients' experiences with healthcare providers, such as doctors, clinics, and hospice teams, or with care for specific health conditions. Other surveys ask enrollees about their ...
Patient Safety and Quality Measures - Agency for Healthcare …
AHRQ QI v2023 software will be released on August 14, 2023. Both SAS QI and WinQI v2023 software will be available for download from the AHRQ QI site.A new beta version of the software, v2023 CloudQI PSI Beta, will also be available.
What Is Patient Experience? - Agency for Healthcare Research and ...
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, physician practices, and other healthcare facilities. As an integral component of healthcare quality, patient experience includes several aspects of ...
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