United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
"United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE established in 1990 to "provide indexing, abstracting, translating, publishing, and other services leading to a more effective and timely dissemination of information on research, demonstration projects, and evaluations with respect to health care to public and private entities and individuals engaged in the improvement of health care delivery..." It supersedes the National Center for Health Services Research. The United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research was renamed Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999.
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D016270
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.409.418.750.600.650.592 N03.540.348.500.500.600.650.592
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality" by people in Profiles.
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Controversies in diagnosis: contemporary debates in the diagnostic safety literature. Diagnosis (Berl). 2020 01 28; 7(1):3-9.
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AHRQ EPC Series on Improving Translation of Evidence: Use of a Clinical Pathway for C. Difficile Treatment to Facilitate the Translation of Research Findings into Practice. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2019 12; 45(12):822-828.
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Next Steps in Improving Healthcare Value: AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Program-Applying the Knowledge to Practice to Data Cycle to Strengthen the Value of Patient Care. J Hosp Med. 2019 05; 14(5):311-314.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-based Practice Center methods for systematically reviewing complex multicomponent health care interventions. J Clin Epidemiol. 2014 Nov; 67(11):1181-91.
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The population value of quality indicator reporting: a framework for prioritizing health care performance measures. Health Aff (Millwood). 2014 Jan; 33(1):132-9.
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Preventable readmissions within 30 days of ischemic stroke among Medicare beneficiaries. Stroke. 2013 Dec; 44(12):3429-35.
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How the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is engaging patients and others in shaping its research agenda. Health Aff (Millwood). 2013 Feb; 32(2):393-400.
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Methods guide for authors of systematic reviews of medical tests: a collaboration between the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. J Gen Intern Med. 2012 Jun; 27 Suppl 1:S1-3.
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Improving ambulatory patient safety: learning from the last decade, moving ahead in the next. JAMA. 2011 Dec 14; 306(22):2504-5.
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Meaningful disparities reduction through research and translation programs. JAMA. 2011 Jan 26; 305(4):404-5.