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Descriptor English: United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Descriptor Spanish: United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Descriptor United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Entry term(s) Agencia de Investigación y Calidad en Asistencia a la Salud (EE UU)
Agencia de Investigación y Calidad en Asistencia a la Salud (EE. UU.)
Agencia de Investigación y Calidad en Asistencia a la Salud (EE.UU.)
Agencia de Investigación y Calidad en Asistencia a la Salud (EEUU)
Agencia de Investigación y Calidad en Asistencia a la Salud (Estados Unidos)
Agencia de Investigación y Calidad en Asistencia a la Salud de los Estados Unidos
Agencia de Política e Investigación de Asistencia a la Salud (EE UU)
Agencia de Política e Investigación de Asistencia a la Salud (EE. UU.)
Agencia de Política e Investigación de Asistencia a la Salud (EEUU)
Agencia de Política y Investigación de Asistencia a la Salud (EE.UU.)
Agencia de Política y Investigación de Asistencia a la Salud (Estados Unidos)
Agencia de Política y Investigación de Asistencia a la Salud de los Estados Unidos
Agencia para la Calidad de la Investigación y Asistencia a la Salud de los Estados Unidos
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Scope note: Agencia del PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE (Servicio de Salud Pública), creada en 1990 al objeto de "proveer indexación, resúmenes, traducción, publicaciones y otros servicios que propicien una divulgación más efectiva y actual de la información sobre las investigaciones, los proyectos demostrativos y las evaluaciones relativas a los servicios sanitarios, a las entidades públicas y privadas y los individuos involucrados en la mejora de la oferta de cuidados sanitarios...". Esta agencia sustituye al National Center for Health Services Research (Centro Nacional para la Investigación en los Servicios Sanitarios). Conforme a la Ley de Calidad e Investigación Sanitarias (Healthcare Research and Quality Act) de 1999, la United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (Agencia de Estados Unidos para la Investigación y Políticas Sanitarias) pasó a llamarse Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - AHRQ (Agencia para la Calidad e Investigación Sanitaria).
Descriptor Portuguese: United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Descriptor French: Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (USA)
Entry term(s): Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U.S.)
United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Tree number(s): I01.409.418.750.600.650.592
N03.540.348.500.500.600.650.592
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016270
Scope note: An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE established in 1990 to "provide indexing, abstracting, translating, publishing, and other services leading to a more effective and timely dissemination of information on research, demonstration projects, and evaluations with respect to health care to public and private entities and individuals engaged in the improvement of health care delivery..." It supersedes the National Center for Health Services Research. The United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research was renamed Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999.
Annotation: add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 91
History Note: 91
Entry Version: AHRQ
DeCS ID: 29143
Unique ID: D016270
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1990/05/29
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Preferred
Concept UI M0024864
Scope note An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE established in 1990 to "provide indexing, abstracting, translating, publishing, and other services leading to a more effective and timely dissemination of information on research, demonstration projects, and evaluations with respect to health care to public and private entities and individuals engaged in the improvement of health care delivery..." It supersedes the National Center for Health Services Research. The United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research was renamed Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999.
Preferred term United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Entry term(s) Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U.S.)
United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research



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