The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality plans to release a survey next month that providers can use to assess patient experience with telehealth visits. AHRQ, which oversees and funds a suite ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released results from the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture, which is an expansion of AHRQ’s Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.

The focus will be on patient safety when the window opens for voluntary data submission for the AHRQ SOPS Nursing Home Database from Sept. 1 through Sept. 21. Eligible providers will be nursing homes ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has notified medical offices that there will be no data submission for the medical office survey on patient safety culture this September/October. The ...

When choosing health care providers, the American public is more likely to rely on recommendations from family, friends and health professionals than on standardized quality indicators, according to a ...

Most health professionals are reluctant to report errors, fearing a punitive hospital culture, according to a recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report. Out of the more than half ...

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If the early results of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality survey are a reliable indicator, physician practices are continuing to struggle with health information exchange. In the ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has announced that there will be no data submission in May/June 2012 for the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database. AHRQ is in ...

Sue Sheridan’s baby boy, Cal, suffered brain damage from undetected jaundice in 1995. Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report, which, based on data from 1,032 U.S. hospitals, ...