Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) == Template:IPA ==

The Template:IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language.

Pronunciation

The pronunciation of the term "IPA" is /aɪ piː eɪ/ in English.

Etymology

The term "IPA" is an acronym for the International Phonetic Alphabet. The International Phonetic Association, founded in 1886, created the IPA to provide a single, universal system for the transcription of spoken language.

Related Terms

  • Phonetic notation: A system used to visually represent the sounds of speech. The IPA is one type of phonetic notation.
  • Phonetics: The study of the physical sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phonemes), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception.
  • Phonology: The study of the way sounds function within a particular language or languages. While phonetics concerns the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function within a particular language or languages.
  • Transcription (linguistics): The systematic representation of spoken language in written form. The source of the words transcribe and transcription, the term means "to write across" in Latin, and it's the process of converting spoken language into written form. In linguistics, this is often done using the IPA.

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Languages: - East Asian 中文, 日本, 한국어, South Asian हिन्दी, Urdu, বাংলা, తెలుగు, தமிழ், ಕನ್ನಡ,
Southeast Asian Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, မြန်မာဘာသာ, European español, Deutsch, français, русский, português do Brasil, Italian, polski is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that is primarily responsible for improving the safety and quality of healthcare services.

Etymology

The name "Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality" was adopted in 1999 when the agency was reauthorized and received an expanded mandate to translate research findings into improved patient care. Prior to this, the agency was known as the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

Function

The AHRQ's mission is to produce evidence that makes healthcare safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to ensure that the evidence is understood and used. It achieves this through research that identifies the most effective ways to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high-quality care; reduce medical errors; and improve patient safety.

Related Terms

  • Healthcare Quality: The degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge.
  • Patient Safety: The prevention of harm to patients during the process of healthcare delivery.
  • Health Services Research: The multidisciplinary field of scientific investigation that studies how social factors, financing systems, organizational structures and processes, health technologies, and personal behaviors affect access to healthcare, the quality and cost of healthcare, and ultimately our health and well-being.
  • Medical Error: A preventable adverse effect of care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient.

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