AHRQ Summit to Highlight Challenges, Strategies to Improving Diagnostic Safety
By Andy Bindman MD – We’re kicking off the fall with the AHRQ Research Summit on Improving Diagnosis in Health Care on September 28.
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AHRQ’s Unique Role in Developing Surveys to Measure Patients’ Experience With Their Health Care
By Andy Bindman MD – As a general internist by training and a primary care physician in practice, I can personally attest to the importance of understanding more fully the patient’s experience of care.
Evidence in Action: AHRQ Reports Adding to the Momentum for Evidence-Based Care
By Arlene Bierman MD – A hallmark of AHRQ’s work is providing evidence-based information to help clinicians and patients make the best possible treatment decisions. AHRQ’s mission is to increase the use of evidence in practice to improve both outcomes for individuals and population health.
Working Together to Tackle Health Care’s “Voltage Drops”
By Andy Bindman MD – It has been nearly 16 years since the late John Eisenberg, M.D., AHRQ’s brilliant director from 1997 to 2002 and one of my early mentors, published an article in JAMA that remains a guidepost for me and others in the field even today. The article deserves quoting for its enduring message:
Pilot Testing Patient Reporting of Safety Events from the Patient and Family Perspective
By Jeff Brady MD, MPH – To make health care safer, we have to know when harm happens. If information about a patient safety event is incomplete or doesn’t exist, providers can’t make the necessary changes to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. Clinicians are an important source of reports about harm that occurs in health care—or safety events—when they happen. But that’s just one perspective.
Health Datapalooza Highlights Key Challenges for Ongoing Research
By Chris Dymek EdD – Last week I attended Health Datapalooza VII, an annual conference where over 1,400 experts gathered to discuss how to bring data to life in ways that matter in health and health care. I wanted to share a few post-conference reflections on how AHRQ can address some of the important issues raised.
AHRQ Supports 21st Century Primary Caring
By George Rust MD, MPH – As an academic primary care doctor and a clinician-teacher turned researcher, I’ve always thought of AHRQ as the research agency that “gets it.” AHRQ gets the primary care generalist perspective — that the whole is often greater than the sum of its parts.
New Models Shift Focus to Paying for Quality of Care
By Sharon Arnold PhD – Much has been written about the importance of finding alternatives to the volume-increasing incentives of traditional fee for service payments and one solution or change will not create an instant results. However, there is a continuum between pure fee for service and pure capitation.
Leaving AHRQ With Pride in its Successful Efforts to Improve American Health Care
By Richard Kronick PhD – After two and one-half stimulating, exciting, and fun years at AHRQ, I will soon be leaving the Agency to return to the University of California, San Diego. I am sad to leave, but very proud of what we have accomplished together.