Welcome to the Web-Enabled 2004 National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR)

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-led effort on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This is the second annual NHQR. This second report extends the baseline established in the 2003 report for a set of health care quality measures across four dimensions of quality - effectiveness, safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness - and, within the effectiveness component, nine clinical condition areas or care settings - cancer, diabetes, end stage renal disease, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, mental health, respiratory diseases, and nursing home and home health care. The purpose of the report is to track the state of health care quality for the Nation on an annual basis.

You can access this report in many ways.

• You can go to the Download Page. You can also scroll to the bottom of any page on this site and access the download page using the "Download" button in the page footer. On the download page, we have a single, large PDF of the report available (labeled the "complete report") and we have subsections of the report available in smaller files to facilitate downloading.
• You can enter simple search terms into the search box at the top of the page.
• You can use the "Site Map" link on the top of the page to see hyperlinks to every section in this web report. Once the site map is displayed, simply click on the title of the section that you wish to view.
• You can select from the menu options located in the left-hand margin of each page. Please note that as you click on the titled links, that action may open more choices. For example, clicking on Appendixes will provide access to Measure Specifications and Data Tables.

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