AHRQ’s $7.95 million initiative follows President Donald Trump’s September 29, 2026, executive order, Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence. It puts U.S. SI innovation to work for the American ...

The Trump Administration is committed to finding the best ways to lower healthcare costs and improve quality and access for American families,” said AHRQ Director Roger D. Klein, M.D., J.D. “This ...

To identify opportunities to improve patient experience and determine where to direct your resources, you can start by reviewing your CAHPS survey results in combination with other forms of patient ...

The CAHPS Health Plan Survey is a tool for collecting standardized information on enrollees' experiences with health plans and their services. Since its launch in 1997, this survey has become the ...

Closed-loop communication uses verbal feedback to ensure that messages are correctly understood by recipients using methods including call-outs, check-backs, and teach-back. The illustration below ...

This section contains explanations and illustrations to help you better understand and appreciate the importance of TeamSTEPPS communication concepts and tools. If you teach this content or want ...

The Two-Challenge Rule is another tool used to facilitate team members' speaking up. It was developed to manage conflict when team members’ perception of a situation differs. Human factor experts ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to healthcare ...

02/15/11 AHRQ Implementation of the Federal Financial Report Mandatory Use of the Federal Financial Report (SF-425) Beginning March 1, 2011 ...

Teams are sets of people communicating, coordinating, and collaborating—in this case, to provide optimal care to patients. Some teams are formally defined and permanent. Other teams are rapidly ...

AHRQ created the Comparative Health System Performance Initiative to study how health care delivery systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care.