The article highlights how personal tragedies led Sue Sheridan and Helen Haskell to advocate for patient safety, pushing for vital research conducted by the AHRQ. The recent cuts to this agency and the firing of experienced staff threaten the progress made in making healthcare safer. Despite claims from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding inefficacy in healthcare spending, no justification is given for targeting AHRQ, raising concerns about the future of patient safety research and the available data that informs hospital practices.
AHRQ's dissolution dislodges experienced patient safety experts, resulting in a brain drain that will be impossible to rectify, impacting hospital patient safety research severely.
Survey data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, methamphetamine, and thousands of other medical issues.
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