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In 2021, AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) asked adults in rural and nonrural areas to describe medical care availability in their neighborhoods. About 17.7 percent of those in ...

In the United States, the cost of treating adults with heart disease totaled $100 billion in 2022. A new statistical brief from AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) presents data on the ...

The American Urological Association has unveiled a new clinical practice guideline for managing genitourinary syndrome of menopause, a condition affecting numerous postmenopausal women. This ...

AHRQ Stats: MRSA Rates by Payer TypeThe rate of MRSA diagnoses on admission among expected self-pay hospitalizations decreased from 130.1 per 10,000 stays in 2019 to 114.1 per 10,000 stays in 2021, ...

In 2021, 15.5 percent of current smokers reported transportation issues that resulted in difficulties accessing daily living needs. People with chronic conditions reported similar reliability ...

Review the following list of meetings in which falls risk and prevention is potentially discussed by the interdisciplinary team. For every meeting that occurs at your facility, indicate the type of ...

Once you have determined that you are ready for change, the Implementation Team and Unit-Based Teams should demonstrate a clear understanding of where they are headed in terms of implementing best ...

AHRQ Stats: Prevalence of Long COVID According to IncomeAmong adults who ever had COVID-19, those living in high-income households were less likely to report ever having long COVID (11.0 percent) than ...

Research on Diagnostic Safety and Quality Learn about AHRQ's research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and what can be done to prevent them.

Find complete program information on the HCUP-US website. Overview of HCUP The AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of databases, software tools, and related products ...

In total, we screened nearly 4,000 articles for possible inclusion in meta-analysis—the majority of which were screened out based on a title and abstract review (3,038 of 3,979, or 76.4 percent, were ...