Our new study in @jamanetworkopen.com!
We found that heat-associated ED use in older adults at a safety-net hospital was amplified at a heat index of 90F - below NYC’s 95F advisory threshold.
Health systems can use EHR data to identify + address patient-level risks missed by municipal efforts.
Imagine if health systems sent customized risk alerts to patients in addition to city-wide alerts. Could we make a difference? /end
Paper here: tinyurl.com/JAMANOAzan
Press release nyulangone.org/news/researc...
The patients living near the ED with higher heat-related visits were more often Hispanic or Asian, and more likely to be on Medicaid, and their risk increased at temperatures lower than the city-wide alert threshold (95 degrees). /2
It's 89 degrees in LA today! Is your grandmother at risk? In new research in @jamanetworkopen.com led by @alexazan.bsky.social we find heat risk is quite variable: older patients at one ED had little risk from high heat while those at another in the same city had markedly higher ED rates. 🧵/1
Image of list of AHRQ NOFOS from NIH Guide includes titles and expiration dates that are March 2026 - earlier than original dates.
#AHRQ NOFOS EARLY EXPIRED NIH GUIDE
No new awards since 4/25 - entire grants program staff FIRED
If no active NOFOs & no FY26 awards
IS AHRQ NO LONGER A GRANT MAKING AGENCY
Does Congress care
@meganranney.bsky.social @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social
Proud of @societygim.bsky.social for taking action to preserve the vital grant-making functions of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which more than pays for itself by funding research to improve patient safety and quality of care #MedSky #HealthPolicy www.citizen.org/news/health-...
5. Real progress means being strategic about where we look (domains with usable signals, outcomes, and interventions) and disciplined in how we learn: agile cycles of probing, discarding, and scaling (~more agile, less waterfall...) @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social
HHS silently installs new AHRQ Director after it eliminates the AHRQ Office of the Director in the April 1 HHS RIF
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#AHRQ
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HHS AHRQ - supported research to make healthcare safer! Now can’t fund grants, publish new NOFOs or award contracts but according to HHS these duties are unnecessary!!
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Why cutting funds for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality #AHRQ and other scientific research is penny wise pound foolish. Thanks @ericboodman.bsky.social for including me. #MedSky #HealthPolicy www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...
Attention - new opportunity to obtain funding for ancillary studies for #RECOVER #LongCOVID cohorts recovercovid.org/funding/roa-... #MedSky
the return on investment for this type of research is huge.
AHRQ cannot publish new funding opportunities - it’s beyond the awards process….
So much of the research that I use to help treat patients in my family medicine office comes from #AHRQ. On a day with a lot of depressing news, this it at the top
This is wildly reckless; AHRQ is little known to the general public and even those working in healthcare- but their behind the scenes impact is massive. See the 🧵
AHRQ funds a good chunk of the practical medical research in the US.
Message me directly
If we really wanted to reduce healthcare costs, we’d increase AHRQ funding. This is tragic and short-sighted. Another disappeared federal agency that no one knows about but has helped save numerous lives (Q=Quality) and lots of money
AHRQ is the Agency for HealthCare and Research Quality. It more than pays for itself by providing practical insights about a sector that represents a huge portion of GDP. But Trump has decided that research is inefficient.
AHRQ was a Little Engine That Could among scientific agencies, and we are all safer and healthier for its funded work. I'm so dang sad about this but want to salute the incredible staff - they deserved far better.
This is such good work by Hopkins’ Joe Levy and team
#HBHI @bsph-hpm.bsky.social
Man this one really hurts AHRQ is vital to evidence based practice and making healthcare better
Just reckless, anti-science and will cause real harm in the long run on people.
Important thread 🧵 on a terrible decision.
Thank you @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social
AHRQ does amazing work in healthcare that saves lives and saves money. 👑
Defunding it is just dumb. It’s something you’d only do if you were trying to destroy our healthcare system, not fix it. 💣
It’s almost like the current administration is actively trying to destroy the country…🤔
And that's just a handful of results from June/July alone. AHRQ's entire annual research budget is $224M. Without it, we will have more infections, higher costs, more diagnostic errors & less evidence-based care. It pays for itself many times over! Please, consider contacting HHS or your local reps.