National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers practical, research-based tools and other resources to help a variety of health care organizations, providers and others make care safer in all health care settings.
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The Compendium of U.S. Health Systems is a suite of files that provides insight into the healthcare organization landscape. It includes data on systems, hospitals, group practices, outpatient sites, nursing homes, and home health organizations. The Compendium files cover a single calendar year, with new years and variables added regularly.
The CAHPS Database (formerly known as the National CAHPS Benchmarking Database) is the repository for data from selected CAHPS surveys. The primary purpose of the CAHPS Database is to facilitate comparisons of CAHPS survey results by and among survey users. To support the use of CAHPS survey results, the CAHPS Database offers products and services that include comparative benchmark results, custom analyses, and data for research purposes. Participation in the CAHPS Database is free and open to all survey users.
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States. The main HCUP products are: HCUP databases, HCUPnet, HCUP research, HCUP reports, and HCUP services. HCUP research tools provide complimentary tools and software to use with HCUP and similar databases. HCUP reports feature findings, publications, and technical reports on HCUP issues. HCUP services include HCUP Fast Stats, which is an online query tool that uses visual displays to compare national or State statistics on a range of healthcare topics.
The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers (doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, etc.), and employers across the United States. MEPS collects data on the specific health services that Americans use, how frequently they use them, the cost of these services, and how they are paid for, as well as data on the cost, scope, and breadth of health insurance held by and available to U.S. workers. There are two major components: the household and insurance.
This report measures trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and access to care. The report presents, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care.
The NHQDR Data Tools allow users to identify populations experiencing disparities in care and areas for improvement in the delivery of healthcare in the United States, as well as the performance of each state.
AHRQ established the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS™) Databases as central repositories for survey data from each of the SOPS surveys. Healthcare organizations that administer one of the AHRQ patient safety culture surveys can voluntarily submit their data to the appropriate database.
The Systematic Review Data Repository is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for the extraction and management of data for systematic review or meta-analysis. It is also an open and searchable archive of systematic reviews and their data.
This interactive maps provides trends in opioid-related hospitalizations between 2009-14 and hospitalizations in 2014 broken down by patient age, sex, geographic area and income. Also available at the county level for 32 states are opioid-related hospitalization discharges and rates per 100,000 population.
The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) was an online, publicly accessible registry and repository of healthcare-related metadata, specifications, and standards. USHIK was funded and directed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) with management support and engagement from numerous public and private partners.
