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.
National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research
Supporting transformative primary care research, tools and methods to improve the delivery of primary care.
Diagnostic Safety and Quality
Funding research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and how to prevent them.
Climate Change
Support for decarbonization in healthcare
Digital Healthcare Research
Providing evidence on how digital healthcare can advance quality, safety, and efficiency for patients and their families
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Making healthcare safer in all settings
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
Network of Patient Safety Databases
Providing non-identifiable patient safety data at the national level
Learning Health Systems
Conducting research and provides training, tools, and data to help healthcare organizations improve care
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
Surveying patients to report on and evaluate their experiences with healthcare
Patient Safety Network
Providing the latest literature, news, and expert commentary on patient safety topics
Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program
Helping clinical teams make care safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical best practices, and the science of safety
Effective Health Care Program
Improving healthcare quality by providing the best available evidence on benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and services
Evidence-based Practice Centers Program
Generating evidence reports on a wide spectrum of topics to inform clinician practice improvements, guide policymaking, and identify future research needs
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.
