Publications About Priority Populations
External Research
- Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP).
- Children/Adolescent Health
- Safety Program for Perinatal Care (SPPC)
- Advancing Perinatal Patient Safety Through Application of Safety Science Principles Using Health IT.
- Implementation Experiences With Improving Safe Medication Practices for Oxytocin and Magnesium Sulfate During Labor and Delivery.
- Impact of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Safety Program for Perinatal Care.
- Strategies To Improve Management of Shoulder Dystocia Under the AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care.
- Racial/Ethnic Minority Health
- Race and Pharmacogenomics—Personalized Medicine or Misguided Practice?
- Addressing Systemic Racism Through Clinical Preventive Service. Recommendations From the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
- Improving Shared Decision Making With LGBT Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients.
- A Model of Organizational Context and Shared Decision Making: Application to LGBT Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients.
- Development of a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Shared Decision Making Among African-American LGBT Patients and Their Clinicians.
- Use of Decision Aids With Minority Patients: A Systematic Review.
- Addressing Barriers to Shared Decision Making Among Latino LGBTQ Patients and Healthcare Providers in Clinical Settings.
- The Affordable Care Act Appears To Have Narrowed Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Among Young Adults.
Internal Research
- Elderly
- Women's Health
- Test Performance of Cervical Cytology Among Adults With vs Without Human Papillomavirus Vaccination
- Preconception Care and Severe Maternal Morbidity in the United States
- Postpartum Health Care Use After Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy.
- Trends and Disparities in Delivery Hospitalizations Involving Severe Maternal Morbidity, 2006–2015 (PDF, 214 KB): Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief.
- Racial/Ethnic Minority Health
- COVID-19 and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Risk, Employment, and Household Composition.
- Characteristics of Inpatient Hospital Stays Involving Sickle Cell Disease, 2000–2016 (PDF, 265 KB): Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief,
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Services and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- Children/Adolescent Health
Interagency Agreements and Executive Orders
- Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.
- Children/Adolescent Health
- America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being (partially funded by AHRQ through an interagency agreement).
- Elderly
- Older Americans 2020: Key Indicators of Well-Being (partially funded by AHRQ through an interagency agreement).
Other AHRQ Resources
Data and Analytics
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Burden and Cost of Diabetes for U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries.
- Prevalence, Trends, Outcomes, and Disparities in Hospitalizations for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in the United States.
- Hospitalization Outcomes and Racial Disparities in Cervical Cancer Patients: An Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample Data From 2002 to 2014.
- National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
Practice Improvement
- The SHARE Approach, a train-the-trainer curriculum on how to engage patients in their healthcare decision making.
- Health Literacy and SharedDecision-making: A Reference Guide for Health Care Providers and Communicating Numbers to Your Patients: A Reference Guide for Health Care Providers.
- Accessible Health Information Technology (IT) for Populations With Limited Literacy: A Guide for Developers and Purchasers of Health IT.
