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´óÏóÊÓƵinvests in research that generates evidence about how to deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.

´óÏóÊÓƵFunding Opportunities

Selected ´óÏóÊÓƵFunding Opportunities:

´óÏóÊÓƵcreates research, tools, and strategies to help health systems and frontline clinicians deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare.

´óÏóÊÓƵEvidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program

• The develop evidence reviews on medications, devices, procedures, and healthcare delivery arrangements to inform healthcare decisions by consumers, healthcare professionals, health systems, and policymakers.
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U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations

• The is an independent, volunteer panel of national experts in disease prevention and evidence-based medicine. The Task Force works to improve the health of people nationwide by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services.
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´óÏóÊÓƵPatient Safety Network (PSNet)

AHRQ's Patient Safety Network (PSNet) features a collection of the latest news and resources on patient safety, innovations and toolkits, opportunities for free Continuing Medical Education (CME), and trainings. The platform provides powerful searching and browsing capability, as well as the ability for users to customize the site around their interests.

• Perspectives: Perspectives on Safety features expert viewpoints on current themes in patient safety, including interviews and written essays published monthly. Annual Perspectives highlight vital and emerging patient safety topics.
• Primers: Primers are quick digestible guides related to current research and practice in the patient safety field.
• WebM&M: WebM&M (Morbidity & Mortality Rounds on the Web) features expert analysis of medical errors reported anonymously by our readers. Spotlight Cases include interactive learning modules available for CME. Commentaries are written by patient safety experts and published monthly.
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´óÏóÊÓƵDiagnostic Safety

Starting in 2019, ´óÏóÊÓƵsupported the development of a series of papers on different diagnostic safety topics. The papers fall under two types—a "call to action" or a "state of the science."

• The Contribution of Diagnostic Errors to Maternal Morbidity and Mortality During and Immediately After Childbirth: State of the Science

Tools

´óÏóÊÓƵSafety Program for Perinatal Care (SPPC)

• SPPC Toolkit Phase 1: Toolkit for Improving Perinatal Safety
• SPPC Toolkit Phase 2: Toolkits To Reduce Hypertension in Pregnancy and Obstetric Hemorrhage
• SPPC Toolkit Phase 3: Safety Program in Perinatal Care—Respectful Maternity Care: This newest phase of the SPPC program is focused on integrating evidence-based practices for promoting respectful maternity care with the toolkit and to align with the patient-centered TeamSTEPPS 3.0 updates in teamwork and communication science. It will be a publicly available resource and will be developed in conjunction with the Health Resources and Service Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Survey on Prenatal and Childbirth Care Experiences in Ambulatory and Inpatient Settings. In 2023, ´óÏóÊÓƵissued a (RFI) to gather broad public input on the survey design. ÌýOpportunities to gain additional stakeholder feedback are currently underway.

AHRQ's new beta software offers an accessible tool for examining maternal health data. It enables users to construct area-level measures of severe maternal morbidity using readily available administrative claims data. This tool aims to address healthcare quality in maternal health and identify opportunities to reduce complications during the peripartum period.

´óÏóÊÓƵdata and analysis help healthcare decision makers understand how the U.S. healthcare system is working and where there are opportunities for improvement.

HCUP Recent Research Publications

Statistical Briefs/Data Briefs

Other Online Data and Tools

• (hospital state data)
• Excel tables of the monthly number of maternal and neonatal inpatient stays, by state, 2018–2022 (depending on state)
• Severe Maternal Morbidity Rates for Healthy People 2023
• ´óÏóÊÓƵQuality Indicators
• Patient Safety Indicators (PSI):
• Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI):

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