Quality improving at a slow pace, states AHRQ
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, April 20, 2010
Healthcare quality is improving but at a slow pace, according to the 2009 National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), released this month.
The NHQR measures four categories of quality: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness. Across all 169 measures, the median rate of improved change was 2.3% per year.
The NHQR reported that healthcare quality needs improvement, particularly for the uninsured. In addition, urgent areas that need attention include patient safety and healthcare-associated infections.
Since 2003, AHRQ and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have reported the progress that healthcare organizations have made toward providing higher quality patient care and identified opportunities for to improve quality.
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