AHRQ

Trump/Musk killed AHRQ, but in a sense, the death has been playing out over 25 years. Recalling 4 eras of the agency and my dream for its eventual rebirth.

Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA), Outcomes Measurement /

Slashing and Dissolving As reported by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Health News site blog, last week the Trump administration “dissolved” the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the agency that has for decades been at the center of the US Federal Government’s support for health services research in the service of improvement of our

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AHRQ guidance: Forget about proving Medical Home effectiveness with small pilot studies attempting to measure all-patient cost savings

Bibliography, Evaluation Methods /

The vast majority of already-published and currently-underway studies of the effectiveness of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care are pilot studies with fewer than 50 PCMH practices.  Most of these studies report or intend to report reductions in hospitalization rates and savings across the entire population of patients served by the PCMH

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