36 hours ago This Patient Safety Chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR). The NHQDR is an annual report to Congress mandated in the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-129). The NHQDR provides a comprehensive overview of the quality of healthcare received by the … >> Go To The Portal
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 from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of patient safety. A PowerPoint version is also available that users can download for presentations. Internet Citation: Chartbook on Patient Safety.
Patient safety and quality issues in outpatient medical offices, by patient safety culture quartile, November 2015-November 2017, combined Key: PSC = patient safety culture. An office's patient safety culture score is the average of the percent positive scores across all 10 composites in the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture.
• Hospitals are a common setting for patient safety events: Many patients admitted to the hospital are in a clinically compromised state. Care often includes the use of invasive devices and procedures, increasing patients’ risk for infection and other harm.
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 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.
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.
Health and health care disparities refer to differences in health and health care between groups that stem from broader inequities.
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.
Benchmarking is a comparison and measurement of a healthcare organization's services against other national healthcare organizations. It provides leaders with insight to help them understand how their organization compares with similar organizations that provide the same services.
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.
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.
The National Quality Standard aims to promote: the safety, health and wellbeing of children. a focus on achieving outcomes for children through high-quality educational programs. families' understanding of what distinguishes a quality service.
A set of six quality priorities for fast-tracking improvement have been identified, these include safety and security, long waiting times, drug availability, nursing attitude, infection prevention and control and values of staff.
three aimsThe initial National Quality Strategy, published in March 2011, established three aims and six priorities for quality improvement.
Chartbook on Person- and Family-Centered Care ( updated October 2016 ) ( PDF, 2 MB) Chartbook on Effective Treatment ( updated August 2016) ( PDF, 4.7 MB) Chartbook on Care Affordability ( updated August 2016) ( PDF, 1.53 MB) Chartbook on Care Coordination ( updated June 2016) ( PDF, 3 MB) Chartbook on Access ( updated May 2016) ( PDF, 3 MB) Chartbook on Healthy Living ( updated April 2016) ( PDF, 3.11 MB) Chartbook on Health Care for Blacks ( February 2016) ( PDF, 2.96 MB).
Internet Citation: National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Report Chartbooks. Content last reviewed November 2021. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
The reports are based on more than 250 measures of quality and disparities covering a broad array of healthcare services and settings. Data generally cover 2000 through 2018. The reports are produced with the help of a Federal Interagency Work Group led by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and submitted on behalf of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). To access the most recent NHQDR, including methodologies and measure lists, go to
These patient safety events result in death, permanent harm, or serious temporary harm to a patient.
The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) is the product of collaboration among agencies across th e U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Many individuals guided and contributed to this effort. Without their magnanimous support, this chartbook would not have been possible. Specifically, we thank:
Since 1999, the patient safety field has made advances such as the reduction of select healthcare- associated infections and medication-related events. These advances have been made through novel strategies, such as clinical decision support, surveillance, treatment protocols, and education and training through simulation. Advancements in safety research and implementation are further described on
A patient experiences a near-miss when he or she is exposed to a hazardous situation but does not experience harm (either through luck or early detection).
Three in five pregnancy-related deaths are preventable (CDC, 2019). Persistent racial and ethnic disparities in maternal mortality have also accompanied the rise in maternal deaths, with Black women having a pregnancy-related mortality rate 3 times as high as that of non-Hispanic White women (Petersen, et al., 2019).
Priority 1: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care