Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Performance Budget Submission for Congressional Justification, Fiscal Year 2006

摘要

AHRQ is, of course, a research agency; however, research is only a beginning and not an end in itself. On a daily basis, this means ensuring that providers use evidence-based research to deliver high-quality health care and to work with their patients as partners. Evidence helps patients to become better informed consumers and to be partners in their own care. It also means working at the grassroots level to help local policymakers understand what they can do to improve the quality of health care for their constituents and ensuring that local public health officials have the latest information to help them be better prepared for a possible bioterrorism event. Accomplishing this goal requires a strategic approach to assure that research findings are ready to use, widely available and actionable e.g., bringing clinicians up-to-date findings via personal digital assistants (PDAs). This step is a critical component of the new vision for AHRQ.