The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Healthcare services should be provided to all people without discriminations of any nature. Professionals in the healthcare sector should ensure that while attending to patients, they act in accordance to the medical laws. Agencies regulating the healthcare industry ensure that all the health professionals act in accordance to the medical laws and people have access to high quality medical attention.

The creation of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) was done in December 1989. It was created as an Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). It was later reauthorized on 6th of December 1999 and from then it was called the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. It is a Public Health Service’s Agency which is within the U.S’s Department of Health and Human Services. In the Agency, it is the responsibility of the Director to implement the Guidelines of AHRQ’s Information Quality. AHRQ is one of the 12 agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and gives support to the initiatives of research in the healthcare industry.

As a way of fulfilling its mission, it conducts and supports research in health services within AHRQ and in the following sectors: institutions of academic; in healthcare systems; in offices of physicians and in hospitals. Weinstock (2009) argues that the agency’s portfolio of research is very broad and addresses all aspects of the healthcare system. The HHS’s strategies and goals act as a guide to the Agency’s operations. The Agency fully supports the strategic goals of HHS.

The Agency ensures that families, seniors and millions of children are provided with healthcare of high quality. It also explores n...

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...ored by AHRQ. The protection requires that the member sponsored by the Agency be the one collecting data. The Federal grantees have discretion of altering the scope and nature of projects that are funded beyond the original outline of funding proposal. The services offered by the Agency helps many people get adequate information on health matters hence are able to make informed decisions.

References

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