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The AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention was a 5-year national project aimed at implementing improvements in MRSA prevention across hospital acute care units (including both intensive care units ...

Overall, the rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia increased by more than 100 percent between 2019 and 2021 regardless of hospital type. This increase ranged from 133.9 percent at critical access ...

The rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia during inpatient stays increased by 20.1 percent between 2016 and 2019. (Source: AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #313, ...

The fiscal year 2021 President's Budget proposes AHRQ be consolidated into the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the National Institute for Research on Safety and Quality (NIRSQ). This statement ...

The AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI was developed and refined over a 3-year period through a national quality improvement collaborative designed to reduce CAUTIs and enhance LTC ...