In 2023, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a little-known federal agency, was Congressionally directed during FY23 to establish an evidence base for what constitutes high-quality bereavement and grief care. As a result, AHRQ commissioned a systematic review, which was informed by an independent subject matter experts panel, to assess the feasibility of developing consensus-based quality standards for high-quality grief and bereavement care. In June 2024, AHRQ, in partnership with the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), hosted the expert panel of academics, federal policy officials, and leaders from local and national non-profits in Rockville, Maryland. The panel discussed the draft systematic report (which was also available for public comment) reviewing interventions to improve the care of bereaved persons, including “evaluations of screening approaches, diagnostic accuracy studies, grief interventions, and treatment of grief disorder studies reporting on an intervention and concurrent control group or comparator intervention” (Executive Summary). Literature searches identified 8,301 articles, 3,497 of which were obtained as full text, but only 166 met the eligibility criteria to be considered in the report. Feedback from the experts and public will be incorporated into a final report anticipated to be released in the Fall of 2024 (i.e., […]