Health Care Access: Agency for Health Research Quality

Agency for Health Research Quality
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Agency for Health Research Quality
Agency for Health Research Quality (AHRQ) is an institution restricting itself within the offering research for health services, and it is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), consummating the biomedical research mission of its other affiliate agency, and the National Institutes of Health. It is also concerned in research on healthcare quality, its outcomes, the patient safety and costs associated with the healthcare spectrum. As a Federal agency of the state, this body is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (AHRQ, 2003).
The Agency for Health Research Quality's strategies is; to strengthen quality measurement and improvement of health care facilities in the country. This institution researches and gives findings for improvements in hospitals, including measures of quality. In medical research, organizations have the mandate on issues facing healthcare in the country. AHRQ comes in handy in studying, collecting and assessing this evidence and then coming up with measures to combat the problems. These actions are then prescribed to hospitals where they are then used to upgrade the quality of services. For the improvement of health care access, the AHRQ takes one of the rarest steps to research on how the government can foster appropriate use and reduce unnecessary expenditures within the health scope. This has been done by analyzing costs and other expenses electronically and then the details are sent to health centers and also what is needed to implement quality from the government's side.
To control the quality of health care, AHRQ supports projects and also trains clinicians while improving patient safety by identifying factors that put them at risk as they develop innovative approaches to reduce errors. This helps to improve safety within the health care settings and also other geographically diverse locations. This enhances quality healthcare services in a wide area network. AHRQ also provides quality assessment tools to hospitals, health organizations, and states. They can use these tools in combination with their hospital administrative data to make prominent potential quality concerns over time (AHRQ, Quality Indicators—Guide to Inpatient Quality Indicators: Quality of Care in Hospitals—Volume, Mortality, and Utilization, 2002).
AHRQ also has taken a huge step in the containment of costs by providing financial support and technical assistance to researchers. These researchers examine how the organizational and fiscal future of the United States health insurance and health care deliverers can improve access and quality for the Nation's, low-income families. It has also helped hospitals reduce inappropriate admissions of patients, by reduc...