21 hours ago This Patient Safety chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR). The QDR includes annual reports to Congress mandated in the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-129). This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of patient safety ... >> Go To The Portal
The annual National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report is mandated by Congress to provide a comprehensive overview of the quality of healthcare received by the general U.S. population and disparities in care experienced by different racial and socioeconomic groups.
The NHQR collects data on health care quality for States and uses maps to present some of the data. The State-level data provide an indication of the variation of the national measures. The measure with the greatest amount of variation is the percentage of chronic nursing home patients who were physically restrained.
The Health Disparity Reports identify and understand health disparities affecting California's Medi-Cal managed care members and are based on focused studies conducted annually by the External Quality Review Organization (EQRO).
The integrated National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports (NHQDR, previously NHQR/NHDR) website provides comprehensive information about healthcare developments and overviews for policymakers, legislators, and reporters. It also contains detailed data tables for researchers.
The National Quality Strategy (NQS) is a nationwide effort to provide direction for improving the quality of health and healthcare in the United States. It is guided by three aims: better care, healthy people and communities, and affordable care.
Quality Indicators (QIs) are standardized, evidence-based measures of health care quality that can be used with readily available hospital inpatient administrative data to measure and track clinical performance and outcomes.
Health disparities include the following:Mortality.Life expectancy.Burden of disease.Mental health.Uninsured/underinsured.Lack of access to care.
Healthcare disparities are differences in access to or availability of medical facilities and services and variation in rates of disease occurrence and disabilities between population groups defined by socioeconomic characteristics such as age, ethnicity, economic resources, or gender and populations identified ...
ADDRESSING HEALTH CARE DISPARITIESRaising public and provider awareness of racial/ethnic disparities in care;Expanding health insurance coverage;Improving the capacity and number of providers in underserved communities; and.Increasing the knowledge base on causes and interventions to reduce disparities.
The four core principles of clinical practice benchmarking are maintaining quality, improving customer satisfaction, improving patient safety, and continuous improvement. A common national benchmark is ensuring that all patients who enter the hospital have a medication reconciliation completed upon admission.
six prioritiesSetting Priorities To advance these aims, the National Quality Strategy focuses on six priorities: Making care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care. Ensuring that each person and family is engaged as partners in their care.
Comparing to a State or National Average. Comparing to a Benchmark (the Highest Performance Achieved) Comparing to the Top 10 or 20 Percent of Performers. Comparing to an Independent Standard.