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Rockville, Md., March 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today launched a new mobile app to help patients be more engaged in their own healthcare. The...

Rockville, Md., March 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today announced that an app called PRISM won the AHRQ Step Up App Challenge, a multi-phase...

Rockville, Md., Feb. 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections and hospitalizations after hospital discharge were reduced by 30 percent in patients...

Rockville, Md., Jan. 29, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New data released today by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show...

Rockville, Md., Jan. 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Of the 15.5 million antibiotic prescriptions filled in 2016 by a population of 19.2 million privately insured children and adults under age 65,...

Rockville, Md., Nov. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research studies funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and published today in Health Affairs highlight challenges and...

Rockville, Md., Sept. 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 25, 2018          Contact: Mary McNamara, PCORI  (202) 827-7000 Ext. 480                                         ...

Rockville, Md., Sept. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nearly 125,000 hospitalizations among older Americans involved opioid-related diagnoses in 2015, according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and...

Rockville, Md., Sept. 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The proportion of women who experienced serious complications while giving birth in U.S. hospitals rose 45 percent between 2006 and 2015, according...

Rockville, MD, May 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on mobile phone applications for diabetes patients found that out of hundreds of...