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Slide Presentation of the 2008 National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR)

Slide 3

Improvement in Core Measures

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  • Receipt of care varies widely:
    • Patients hospitalized with a heart attack receive 95% of recommended services.
    • Only 15% of patients on dialysis are registered on a kidney transplant waiting list.
  • Across report measures, the median level of receipt of needed care was 59%.

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