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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Promotes effective, appropriate, high-quality health care; increased access to care; and improves the way health services are organized, delivered, and financed. Provides Now You Have a Diagnosis: What’s Next, a publication designed to assist patients in their decision-making. 

Mission

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, Maryland 20857 http://www.ahrq.gov
301-427-1364

Last updated: October 23, 2019