An AHRQ-funded study published in NPJ Digital Medicine found that including lab results significantly improved the accuracy of differential diagnoses generated by large language models. Researchers ...

AHRQ Stats: Changes in Healthcare Spending Among Highest SpendersPeople in the top 1 percent of healthcare expenses spent an average of $147,071 in 2022, a decrease of approximately $30,000 from 2021.

AHRQ Stats: Proportionate Healthcare Expenditures Among High SpendersBetween 2018 and 2022, 21.7 percent of healthcare expenditures were associated with the top 1 percent of spenders. The bottom 50 ...

AHRQ Stats: Total Adult Outpatient Opioid Prescription FillsThere were 68.6 million outpatient prescription opioid fills between 2021 and 2022. Hydrocodone (25.2 million fills), oxycodone (19.2 ...

AHRQ Stats: Average Annual Spending on Adult Opioid PrescriptionsBetween 2021 and 2022, average annual total outpatient prescription costs for oxycodone totaled $1.9 billion, and costs for hydrocodone ...

AHRQ Stats: MRSA Rates by Payer TypeThe rate of MRSA diagnoses on admission among expected self-pay hospitalizations decreased from 130.1 per 10,000 stays in 2019 to 114.1 per 10,000 stays in 2021, ...

AHRQ Stats: Trends in MRSA Rates, 2016 to 2021While the overall rate of adult inpatient stays with a diagnosis of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) decreased by nearly 11 percent ...

AHRQ Stats: Conditions Associated With Lack of Reliable TransportationIn 2021, 15.5 percent of current smokers reported transportation issues that resulted in difficulties accessing daily living needs ...

AHRQ Stats: Rates of Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infections by Hospital TypeThe rate of central-line associated bloodstream infections at any hospital type increased substantially between 2019 ...

Editor’s Note: Due to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, AHRQ News Now will not publish again until Jan. 7. AHRQ Stats: Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity. Black non-Hispanic women and ...

AHRQ Stats: Trends in Severe Maternal Morbidity ComplicationsBetween 2016 and 2021, the rate of delivery stays with respiratory-related severe maternal morbidity (SMM) complications increased 137 ...

Today, the National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety (NAA) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the National Healthcare Safety Dashboard, an online ...