United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE established in 1990 to "provide indexing, abstracting, translating, publishing, and other services leading to a more effective and timely dissemination of information on research, demonstration projects, and evaluations with respect to health care to public and private entities and individuals engaged in the improvement of health care delivery..." It supersedes the National Center for Health Services Research. The United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research was renamed Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999.

Descriptor ID	D016270
MeSH Number(s)	I01.409.418.750.600.650.592 N03.540.348.500.500.600.650.592
Concept/Terms	United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U.S.) Agency for Health Care Policy and Research United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality".

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Government [I01.409]
Government Agencies [I01.409.418]
United States Government Agencies [I01.409.418.750]
United States Dept. of Health and Human Services [I01.409.418.750.600]
United States Public Health Service [I01.409.418.750.600.650]
United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [I01.409.418.750.600.650.592]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Organizations [N03.540]
Government [N03.540.348]
Federal Government [N03.540.348.500]
United States Government Agencies [N03.540.348.500.500]
United States Dept. of Health and Human Services [N03.540.348.500.500.600]
United States Public Health Service [N03.540.348.500.500.600.650]
United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [N03.540.348.500.500.600.650.592]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2005	0	1	1
2006	0	2	2
2007	0	1	1
2008	0	1	1
2010	0	1	1
2011	0	1	1
2012	2	5	7
2013	2	0	2
2014	0	2	2
2016	1	4	5
2017	1	1	2
2018	0	1	1
2019	0	1	1

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Law AC, Stevens JP, Walkey AJ. National Trends in Timing of Death Among Patients With Septic Shock, 1994-2014. Crit Care Med. 2019 11; 47(11):1493-1496.

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Shin MH, Rivard PE, Shwartz M, Borzecki A, Yaksic E, Stolzmann K, Zubkoff L, Rosen AK. Tailoring an educational program on the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to meet stakeholder needs: lessons learned in the VA. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 02 14; 18(1):114.

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Nguyen MC, Moffatt-Bruce SD, Van Buren A, Gonsenhauser I, Eiferman DS. Daily review of AHRQ patient safety indicators has important impact on value-based purchasing, reimbursement, and performance scores. Surgery. 2018 03; 163(3):542-546.

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Hefner JL, Huerta TR, McAlearney AS, Barash B, Latimer T, Moffatt-Bruce SD. Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating standard algorithms to measure patient safety. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 03 01; 24(2):310-315.

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Gray DM, Hefner JL, Nguyen MC, Eiferman D, Moffatt-Bruce SD. The Link Between Clinically Validated Patient Safety Indicators and Clinical Outcomes. Am J Med Qual. 2017 Nov/Dec; 32(6):583-590.

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Chen Q, Rosen AK, Borzecki A, Shwartz M. Using Harm-Based Weights for the AHRQ Patient Safety for Selected Indicators Composite (PSI-90): Does It Affect Assessment of Hospital Performance and Financial Penalties in Veterans Health Administration Hospitals? Health Serv Res. 2016 Dec; 51(6):2140-2157.

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Engineer LD, Winters BD, Weston CM, Zhang A, Sharma R, Bass E, Jones D, Rosen A, Yoon FB, Borzecki A, Dy SM. Hospital Characteristics and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Inpatient Quality Indicators: A Systematic Review. J Healthc Qual. 2016 Sep-Oct; 38(5):304-13.

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Nguyen MC, Moffatt-Bruce SD, Strosberg DS, Puttmann KT, Pan YL, Eiferman DS. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicator for Postoperative Respiratory Failure (PSI 11) does not identify accurately patients who received unsafe care. Surgery. 2016 10; 160(4):858-868.

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Finney JW, Amundson EO, Bi X, Cucciare MA, Eisen SA, Finlay AK, Halvorson MA, Hayashi K, Owens DK, Maisel NC, Timko C, Weitlauf JC, Cronkite RC. Evaluating the Productivity of VA, NIH, and AHRQ Health Services Research Career Development Awardees. Acad Med. 2016 Apr; 91(4):563-9.

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Shin MH, Sullivan JL, Rosen AK, Solomon JL, Dunn EJ, Shimada SL, Hayes J, Rivard PE. Examining the validity of AHRQ's patient safety indicators (PSIs): is variation in PSI composite score related to hospital organizational factors? Med Care Res Rev. 2014 Dec; 71(6):599-618.

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