Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (original) (raw)

Featured Programs

AHRQ programs provide information and resources to help healthcare organizations and providers deliver safe, high-quality, and equitable care across all settings.

Health Equity

Examining inequities and implicit bias embedded in today’s healthcare delivery systems.

Digital Healthcare Research

Providing evidence on how digital healthcare can advance quality, safety, and efficiency for patients and their families

Data & Analytics

Providing data and analysis to help healthcare decision makers understand how the healthcare system is working and identify opportunities for improvement

EvidenceNOW

Using external practice coaches to help primary care clinicians implement the best evidence into care

Learning Health Systems

Conducting research and provides training, tools, and data to help healthcare organizations improve care

Effective Health Care Program

Improving healthcare quality by providing the best available evidence on benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and services

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. We accomplish our mission by focusing on our three core competencies.

AHRQ invests in research that generates evidence about how to deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.

AHRQ creates tools and strategies to help health systems and frontline clinicians deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.

AHRQ data and analysis help healthcare decision makers understand how the US healthcare system is working and where there are opportunities for improvement.