The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is developing a group of assisting materials that help in research and decision-making in healthcare field. Researchers and other individuals in different administrative ranks can use these assisting tools at the local, State, and Federal levels. In order to measure health care quality, AHRQ uses The Quality Indicators (QIs), which is using the promptly available inpatient administrative information from hospitals. AHRQ by using The QIs is focusing on the main probable quality matters, detecting zones that demand more body of knowledge and exploration, and tracking any alteration within the passage of time.
In its official website, AHRQ’s mission statement is stating on, "AHRQ is to improve
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And its budget in the financial year of 2011 was $372 million, where was $405 million in 2012 Fiscal year. Furthermore, roughly 80 percent of AHRQ's budget is invested in grants and contracts that is focusing on improving health care, and that by improving patient safety and the quality of healthcare by reducing the risk of harm to the possible point and promoting the delivery of the best possible healthcare services, Improving health care outcomes by encouraging the use of the evidences to make informed health care decisions, and improving efficiency and transforming researches into a practice to facilitate wider access to effective health care services and reduce unnecessary costs. In short, AHRQ funding is used to develop research, reports, practical tools, and other resources to make care safer and better for people in communities across the country. AHRQ's customers are clinicians and different healthcare providers such as hospitals, consumers and patients, healthcare policymakers at different administrative levels, purchasers and payers such as employers and public and private insurers, and other health officials such as hospital systems and medical school