The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Healthcare Quality Report, 2006

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Healthcare Quality Report, 2006

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Data brief (Commonwealth Fund)
Contributor(s):
Schoenbaum, Stephen C.
McCarthy, Douglas.
Schoen, Cathy.
Commonwealth Fund. Commission on a High Performance Health System.
Commonwealth Fund.
Publication:
[New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, [2007]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Quality of Health Care -- trends
United States
United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
In the 2006 edition of its annual National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality finds that the rate of improvement across 42 core measures of quality ranged from a high of 7.8 percent (hospital acute care) to only 1 percent (nursing home and home health care). Improvements are not occurring across all aspects of the health care system and are highly variable across the states. The Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System believes it will take an organized health system and expanded access to care to address many of the deficiencies in performance illustrated in the NHQR. National standards of care and performance benchmarks are essential to this effort.
Copyright:
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Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101312977 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101312977