Title: AHRQ'S ROLE IN IMPROVING QUALITY, SAFETY, AND HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE.
Authors: KRONICK, RICHARD
Abstract: The article discusses the role of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Topics include the three major ways in which the AHRQ's tools, resources and data improve the quality and safety of America's healthcare system, its work with providers in developing and implementing the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), and its family of data bases on the care provided to hospital patients in the U.S. known as the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.
Subjects: MEDICAL quality control; PATIENT safety; SOCIAL role; UNITED States. Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Publication: Public Health Reports, 2016, Vol 131, Issue 2, p229
ISSN: 0033-3549
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1177/003335491613100205

AHRQ'S ROLE IN IMPROVING QUALITY, SAFETY, AND HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE.

KRONICK, RICHARD