National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care
Data & Analytics
- Data Infographics
- Data Visualizations
- Data Tools
- Data Innovations
- All-Payer Claims Database
- Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Program
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
- Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
- National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Data Tools
- AHRQ Quality Indicator Tools for Data Analytics
- United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK)
- Data Sources Available from AHRQ
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Areas of Interest
Diagnostic Safety and Quality
Funding research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and how to prevent them.
Network of Patient Safety Databases
The Network of Patient Safety Databases provides valuable tools to identify and track patient safety problems and trends.
AHRQ’s Patient Safety Work
Overview of AHRQ’s research programs, funding opportunities, and stories of impact from AHRQ’s patient safety investments.
Preventing Infections
AHRQ funds work to help frontline providers prevent HAIs by improving how care is delivered to patients.
Learn About Patient Safety
Research-based tools to get your team on board and help them understand and use core concepts of patient safety.
National Steering Committee Releases Patient Safety Action Plan
Achieving safer care and reducing harm to patients and caregivers
As the lead federal agency for advancing patient safety, AHRQ invests in research and implementation projects that bridge the gap between research and the delivery of safer patient care. AHRQ's patient safety research summaries reflect the work of agency grantees and contractors. Organized by theme, the summaries provide brief descriptions of individual projects as well as research highlights.
AHRQ has developed a wealth of materials focused on a wide range of patient safety risks in specific healthcare settings: acute, hospital, labor and delivery units, long-term, ambulatory, and more.
Quality improvement measurement tools and information, including AHRQ Quality Indicators Hospital Toolkit, ambulatory clinical performance measures, and TalkingQuality.
Collections of professional and academic publications, reports, and National Action Plans.
- AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Research Featured in Health Affairs
- Medical Liability
- National Academy of Medicine Reports
- National Action Plans
- Papers on Diagnostic Safety Topics
- PSNet
- Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation
- Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches
- Advancing Patient Safety: A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation
- Health Care Safety Hotline
- Sepsis: Report to Congress
AHRQ offers free tools to help prioritize concerns and maximize interactions between providers, patients, and families.
AHRQ is the lead Federal agency for patient safety research. Our work helps providers make care safer for patients.
Evidence-based products and tools provide resources, free continuing education events, and case studies on how our products and tools are being implemented.
Tips for preventing medical errors and promoting patient safety, measuring health care quality, consumer assessment of health plans, evaluation software, report tools, and case studies