Clinicians & Providers

• American Academy of Physician Assistants Recommends AHRQ's Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Trends in Racial-ethnic, Income, and Insurance Disparities Over Time 2002-2009
• Associations between Minimum Wage Policy and Access to Health Care: Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1996-2007
• Health Insurance/Access to Care
• Uncertain Health Insurance Coverage and Unmet Children's Health Care Needs
• Universal Health Insurance and Health Care Access for Homeless Persons
• Women With Diabetes: Quality of Health Care, 2004-2005
• Women at High Risk for Diabetes: Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003-2006

Hospital & Health System Resources

• Health Insurance/Access to Care
• Women at High Risk for Diabetes: Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003-2006

Policymaker Resources

• Health Insurance/Access to Care
• Women With Diabetes: Quality of Health Care, 2004-2005

Full Research Reports

September 1 2012 20120901

Women With Diabetes: Quality of Health Care, 2004-2005

September 1 2012 20120901

Women at High Risk for Diabetes: Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003-2006

Other Research & Data

• American Academy of Physician Assistants Recommends AHRQ's Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Trends in Racial-ethnic, Income, and Insurance Disparities Over Time 2002-2009
• Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital
• Connecticut Office of Health Care Access
• Hawaii Department of Human Services
• Health Care in Urban and Rural Areas, Combined Years 2004-2006: Requests for Assistance on Health Initiatives: Update of Content in MEPS Chartbook No. 13
• Health Insurance/Access to Care
• Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
• Near-Elderly Adults, Ages 55-64: Health Insurance Coverage, Cost, and Access
• Neighborhood demographics play a role in access to health care for immigrant and U.S.-born Mexican Americans
• State of New Hampshire
• State of Oregon
• State of Oregon
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Press Releases

June 1 2011 20110601

Health Care Quality Gaps and Disparities Persist in Every State

February 28 2011 20110228

Health Care Quality Still Improving Slowly, but Disparities and Gaps in Access to Care Persist

Other News & Events

• Access to care for patients with lupus affected by several local factors
• Adults with individual and employment-related health insurance report similar, often good, access to care
• Americans, especially blacks, spend substantial periods of time uninsured
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Trends in Racial-ethnic, Income, and Insurance Disparities Over Time 2002-2009
• Being foreign-born affects access to care
• Black and Hispanic Medicare patients with hip fracture wait longer for surgery than white patients
• Black children are more likely to be hospitalized for a ruptured appendix than white children
• Black male prisoners in North Carolina have considerably lower mortality rates than black residents of that State
• Blacks have longer PSA screening intervals than whites
• Certain patients with lupus are more likely to end up in the emergency department three or more times a year
• Children whose parents lack a usual source of care are more likely to have unmet medical needs
• Children with special health care needs with disabilities have greater unmet health care needs than those without disabilities
• Community health center collaboratives improve care quality but have little impact on disparities
• Community hubs ensure better care for the most vulnerable
• Creating networks to provide social support for the homeless may improve health outcomes
• Criminal justice system may create and aggravate health disparities among minorities
• Despite more widespread prescribing of antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection, disparities remain
• Diabetes testing plummets among poor, minority, and inner-city adults
• Disparities Report highlights health care challenges for minorities, underscores importance of Affordable Care Act
• Dual Veterans Administration/Medicare users are not hospitalized more for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
• Emergency departments have increasingly become the health care safety net for adults insured by Medicaid
• Fragmentation of care for complex diabetes patients may be associated with greater use of the emergency department
• Geographic information system reveals primary care needs of Hispanics
• Hard-of-hearing individuals more likely to report difficulties in accessing care
• Having a usual source of care as well as insurance reduces unmet health needs
• Having a usual source of care promotes preventive health counseling for children
• Health Care Quality Still Improving Slowly, But Disparities and Gaps in Access to Care Persist, According to New AHRQ Reports
• Health Insurance/Access to Care
• Health care quality still improving slowly, but disparities and gaps in access to care persist
• Health information technology-supported quality improvement initiative reduces some ambulatory care disparities
• Health insurance is necessary but not sufficient for children's access to care
• Homeless and underserved women may not be receiving empiric treatment
• Immigrants to the United States and Canada have worse access to care than native-born counterparts
• Improving care for patients with disabilities
• Increasing the number of coronary angiography facilities led to a reduction in racial disparities in New Jersey
• Individuals who seek care for coughs and colds in emergency departments have social support
• Leaving the emergency department without being seen more likely at hospitals that serve more low-income patients
• Majority of conditions treated in emergency departments are treatable in primary care clinics
• Many Texas residents cross Mexican border to obtain health care services
• Many minority patients do not receive or complete colorectal cancer screening tests in urban, primary care settings
• Medicaid MCOs don't boost care access for the disabled or lower Medicaid expenditures
• Men shy away from routine medical appointments
• More hospitals with angioplasty capability have not improved access to the procedure
• Neighborhood demographics play a role in access to health care for immigrant and U.S.-born Mexican Americans
• Nighttime-Breathing Treatments Backed by Strongest Evidence Among Options to Treat Sleep Apnea
• Older black women with breast cancer do not receive beneficial chemotherapy as often as white women
• One in 13 U.S. adults report access to specialists to be a "big problem"
• One-fifth of the U.S. population has no doctor or other usual source of medical care
• Patients who find it easy to access primary care are more likely to receive selected preventive services
• Patients' income and where they live influence hospitalization for chronic lung disease
• Physicians report care barriers for young adults with childhood onset
• Poorer patients less likely to receive specific treatment for head and neck cancer
• Practice setting, ownership, and specialty all affect volume of charity care provided by physicians
• Project helps those with spinal cord injury identify community and environmental barriers
• Regional poverty boosts adults' chances of having unmet health care needs
• Relative inefficiency of rural critical access hospitals must be balanced against their contributions to care access and quality
• Requiring proof of citizenship cuts participation in Oregon's Medicaid family planning program
• Rural and urban residents have similar perceptions of health care quality, despite differences in care delivery
• Rural elderly with dementia are hospitalized more often for conditions that primary care visits might have caught
• Rural patients with a serious form of gallstone disease are less likely than urban patients to receive treatment
• Six of every 10 rural emergency departments visits made by poor patients
• Study identifies attributes of surgeons more willing to provide charity care
• Study outlines factors associated with untreated diabetes
• Uncontrolled asthma events among Massachusetts patients declined between 2002 and 2007
• Up to $500 million in Affordable Care Act funding will help health providers improve care
• Vulnerable populations with heart failure less likely to receive early physician followup after discharge