Between 2021 and 2022, average annual total outpatient prescription costs for oxycodone totaled $1.9 billion, and costs for hydrocodone totaled $700 million, accounting for nearly 75 percent of the ...

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 ...

This section of the toolkit provides guidance and materials to assist you in the operationalization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and surgical site infection (SSI) prevention ...

Welcome to the AHRQ Toolkit for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI. This toolkit is designed to provide the resources and tools to help you tackle the complex problems of methicillin-resistant ...

The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is an evidence-based framework that has been widely used to address patient safety and quality improvement issues. CUSP starts with the frontline ...

This student workbook was prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality by RAND Corporation under contract 290-06-00017-7. It is one component of a four-part set of training modules ...

The rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia during inpatient stays increased by 20.1 percent between 2016 and 2019. (Source: AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #313, ...

Health care delivery systems throughout the United States are employing the triple aim (improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health ...

The CAHPS Surgical Care Survey asks adult patients to report on surgical care, surgeons, their staff, and anesthesiologists. This standardized survey expands on the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey, ...

Medical errors may occur in different health care settings, and those that happen in hospitals can have serious consequences. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which has sponsored ...

Efforts to define terms to advance understanding are incomplete without including the perspective of patients, but we cannot learn from their experiences if we do not know how to ask. 43 The terms ...

Assessments of healthcare quality tend to focus on discrete elements or facts that are predefined, prospective, and measurable. The quality paradigm is based on the foundational Donabedian model, 7 ...