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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Aug 22

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-...

Health Research Groups Sue HHS For Halting Grantmaking at Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Public Citizen

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, nonprofit organizations Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) sued Robert…

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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Shande Farmisht @pjt1919.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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Roger D. Klein, M.D., J.D.

Roger D. Klein, M.D., J.D., is a board-certified molecular pathologist and attorney who was formerly Chief Medical Officer of OmniSeq, Inc., a tumor profiling company that was acquired by LabCorp. Dr....

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Shande Farmisht @pjt1919.bsky.social · Aug 6

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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Federal cuts to health care research and quality agency make Missouri hospitals less safe • Missouri Independent

The Trump administration recently slashed funding for the federal agency that works to improve our health care system.

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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Aug 8

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...

Claiming to fight waste, Trump administration slashes potentially cost-saving research

Claiming it wants to cut waste, the Trump administration has terminated grants for research testing ways to save the health care system money.

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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Aug 1

Attention - new opportunity to obtain funding for ancillary studies for #RECOVER #LongCOVID cohorts recovercovid.org/funding/roa-... #MedSky

RECOVER: Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery

The long-term effects of COVID are real. Join the NIH in the search for answers.

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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · Jul 25

the return on investment for this type of research is huge.

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Shande Farmisht @pjt1919.bsky.social · Jul 24

AHRQ cannot publish new funding opportunities - it’s beyond the awards process….

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Andy Pasternak @tubadrew.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · Jul 23

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 🧵

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Maaisha Osman @maaisha.bsky.social · Jul 24

Full details on the meeting: insidehealthpolicy.com/share/149694

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · Jul 24

AHRQ funds a good chunk of the practical medical research in the US.

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 24

Message me directly

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 24

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.

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is such good work by Hopkins’ Joe Levy and team

#HBHI @bsph-hpm.bsky.social

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

AHRQ-funded researchers calculated the US could save $150M every year by switching from low molecular weight heparin to aspirin for blood clot prevention in orthopedic trauma patients. (That grant cost <$100K.) t.co/NqWBB3X0rx

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40668732/

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Ben aka The Ghost of Ryan Grubb @bseahawk14.bsky.social · Jul 23

Man this one really hurts AHRQ is vital to evidence based practice and making healthcare better

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Just reckless, anti-science and will cause real harm in the long run on people.

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Important thread 🧵 on a terrible decision.
Thank you @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · Jul 23

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…🤔

Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

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.

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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

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.

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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

AHRQ-funded researchers did a series of interventions on over 7.5 million radiology reports to reduce ambiguous/unnecessary recs for additional imaging while increasing useful recs 7-fold, leading to a 30% increase in follow-up of important findings. t.co/zWUC9K3LaK

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40459413/

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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · Jul 23

AHRQ research found that 3/100 people hospitalized for a high risk problem were actually seen in the ED within the prior week, suggesting the diagnosis may have been missed, and illuminating ways in which we could try to avoid those misses. t.co/1a9X338rLs

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40526380/

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