The Compendium of U.S. Health Systems is composed of 637 U.S. health systems, defined in this analysis to include at least one hospital and at least one group of physicians providing comprehensive ...

The most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage in the United States. MEPS is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals and their ...

The CAHPS® Experience of Care & Health Outcomes (ECHO) Survey is the product of nearly 6 years of research and testing by CAHPS grantees at the Harvard Medical School, with extensive input from ...

The following two tables list children's health care quality measures from the AHRQ-CMS Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP). Table 1 lists available measures that have been developed by PQMP ...

Resource: Advantages and Disadvantages of Registries (PDF, 173 KB, 1 page) Registries can complement paper records or electronic health records (EHRs), which frequently do not have the functions ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to healthcare ...

AHRQ uses a System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) framework that is consistent with the HHS Enterprise Lifecycle Framework (EPLC). This framework provides the basis for conducting application ...

A report on healthcare quality is an ideal place to remind consumers and patients of their rights and protections. In addition to having direct practical value, it reinforces two key messages inherent ...

On September 18, AHRQ’s Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) program hosted a virtual research meeting which focused on the integral role of patients and families in the ...

Purpose of the tool: This tool describes the key perinatal safety elements related to safe cesarean section. The key elements are presented within the framework of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety ...

The On-Time Falls Prevention Menu of Implementation Strategies for using reports is a list of potential ways facility teams may choose to integrate the falls risk reports into clinical practice. In ...

Background: The purpose of this tool is to determine if your facility has a process to screen patients for pressure ulcer risk. The tool is one of a series of Facility Assessment Checklists developed ...