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AHRQ Offers New Guide to Help Hospitals Engage Patients and Families in Their Health Care

Electronic Newsletter, Issue 387
AHRQ's Electronic Newsletter summarizes Agency research and programmatic activities.
July 9, 2013

AHRQ Stats

Hospitalizations of patients undergoing knee arthroplasty roughly doubled between 1997 and 2010—from 329,000 to 730,000 procedures. (Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #149, Most Frequent Procedures Performed in U.S. Hospitals, 2010).

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