article thumbnail

Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Survey data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, methamphetamine, and thousands of other medical issues. Cases of jaundice-related brain damage declined from 7 per 100,000 to about 2 per 100,000 newborns from 1997 to 2012. Nobody does these things except AHRQ,” she said.