This report tracks changes in health care prices, utilization, and spending for people younger than 65 covered by employer-sponsored health insurance. It also includes snapshots of spending and out-of-pocket spending in 17 states and the District of Columbia.
A set of quality indicators organized into four "modules," each of which measures quality associated with processes of care that occurred in an outpatient or an inpatient setting to highlight potential quality concerns, identify areas that need further study and investigation, and track changes over time.
Resources and tools for optimizing patient safety related to labor and delivery. Includes patient education and model policies.
The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems program is an initiative to develop standardized surveys of patients' experiences with ambulatory and facility-level care.
The CCQM-PC is a survey of adult patients' experiences with care coordination in primary care settings. It is designed to be used in primary care research and evaluation, with potential applications to primary care quality improvement.
Developed in collaboration with the 16 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) community alliances, this tool supports decisions to align measurement and public reporting. The Alignment Tool is a snapshot in time of the measures in use by the 16 AF4Q Alliances in February 2012.
Contains data briefs on U.S. health systems, defined in this analysis to include at least one hospital and at least one group of physicians providing comprehensive care, who are connected with each other and with the hospital through common ownership or joint management.
COMPARE is a microsimulation model that predicts the effects of health policy changes using synthetic data sets.
This toolkit has been developed to assess the value—benefits and costs experienced by patients over time—of the components of health care
This page contains resources for good IT practices in healthcare, including guides, toolkits, and podcast episodes.
Research the scores hospitals have received relevant to patient safety, errors, injuries, accidents, and infections.
The tools in this step-by-step guide can increase the reliability of the testing process in your office by helping you examine how tests are managed.
Provides health data on more than 700 health topics including demographics, health insurance coverage, health costs, minority health, and women's health for all 50 states.
Healthy People 2030 provides a comprehensive set of 10-year, national goals and objectives for improving the health of all Americans. A smaller set of Healthy People 2030 objectives, called Leading Health Indicators (LHIs), have been selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them.
HSRR is a searchable database of information about research datasets, instruments, indices, and software employed in Health Services Research, the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Public Health. The database includes brief descriptions of research resources and links to PubMed.
NCQA rated more than 1,000 insurance plans based on quality, member satisfaction, and accreditation survey results, focusing on care outcomes and patient opinion. Ratings are searchable by state, type, and plan name.
Proprietary database of the American Nurses Association. The database collects and evaluates unit-specific nurse-sensitive data from hospitals in the United States.
This website includes access to all reports from this series, as well as a data query section, which allows researchers to find data based on geographic, subject, and topic area.
The Division of Practitioner Data Banks (DPDB) is responsible for the implementation of the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB). The NPDB and HIPDB are alert or flagging systems intended to facilitate a comprehensive review of the professional credentials of health care practitioners, providers, and suppliers
PROSPERO consists of over 800 records, giving details of systematic reviews being undertaken in 33 different countries.
Information about AHRQ efforts to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety.
A web-based resource featuring the latest news and essential resources on patient safety. The site offers weekly updates of patient safety literature, news, tools, and meetings ("What's New"), and a vast set of carefully annotated links to important research and other information on patient safety ("The Collection").
This series of resources discuss methods of improving communication between clinicians in the context of routine patient care and emergency situations.
QPS is a new tool to help individuals find NQF-endorsed measures quickly and easily.
Tools and resources relating to health-care quality and patient safety.
This interactive tool displays the relationship between health care quality and spending for Medicare patients within a state or local area.
Tool for use by hospitals to electronically submit their notice of participation for the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program- formerly known as Reporting Hospital
The ROI Forecasting Calculator is designed to help Medicaid stakeholders assess and demonstrate a return on investment (ROI) from projects to improve quality in health care.
This toolkit was designed to assist hospitals in reducing readmissions and posthospital emergency department visits. It is specifically designed for those institutions serving diverse populations. It introduces a new component of overcoming language barriers and literacy issues.
Interactive U.S. map of state-specific health system performance on measures of access, quality, and health outcomes.
This toolkit is an evidence-based teamwork system aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals
Tool used by more than 90% of America's health plans to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service.
Key elements of the VA's transparency initiative involve public presentation of health system and facility data about quality of care and safety. Examples include VA's Hospital Compare website, which provides outcomes and process data for selected diagnoses, and the ASPIRE dashboard, which reports quality and safety goals for all VA hospitals.
Use the Rural Health Value Team's comprehensive Value-Based Care Strategic Planning Tool (VBC Tool) to assess 121 different value-based care capacities in eight categories. After completion, users receive a Value-Based Care Readiness Report that can be used to assess an organization's readiness for value-based care and to develop value-based care action plans.
Free resource for health care professionals interested in tracking performance on various measures of health care quality. It enables organizations to compare their performance against that of peer organizations, against a range of benchmarks, and over time. Case studies and improvement tools spotlight successful improvement strategies of the nation's top performers.
This resource provide a centralized location for news, information, tools and standards related to electronic clinical quality improvement and electronic clinical quality measures
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