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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [1] (AHRQ; pronounced "ark" by initiates and often "A-H-R-Q" by the public) is one of twelve agencies within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). [2] The agency is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. (with a Rockville mailing address).
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) was created in 1989 in order to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care through research. In 1990, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) was entrusted to offer accreditation programs for managed care organizations.
The first Federal Security Administrator was Paul V. McNutt. [3] The new agency originally consisted of the following major components: (1) Office of the Administrator, (2) Public Health Service (PHS), (3) Office of Education, (4) Civilian Conservation Corps, and (5) Social Security Board. [citation needed]
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and products from the United States that is developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Shoppers spent between $979.5 billion and $989 billion last month and in December, with retail sales up 2.5% to 3.5% from a year ago, according to an estimate from the National Retail Federation ...
In 2008, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ created the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange to document and share health care quality improvement programs, including hundreds of profiles featuring nursing innovations. [1]
Zooey Deschanel is a fun and festive mom!. The actress, 44, attended an event for The Simpsons’ latest holiday special, "O C’mon All Ye Faithful," on Friday, Dec. 13, when she was accompanied ...
3. En los ordinales siguientes se sintetizan los hechos que dan lugar a plantear la cuestión prejudicial: 3.1. El día 19 de julio de 2007 don Mohamed AZIZ suscribió con la mercantil CAIXA D’ESTALVIS DE TARRAGONA (actualmente CAIXA D’ESTALVIS DE CATALUNYA, TARRAGONA i MANRESA, CATALUNYACAIXA), un contrato de préstamo con garantía