Slide 4

Hospital Quality Leading Improvement

• Median annual rate of change for hospital measures twice the rate for all measures.
• Lowest rate for ambulatory care measures, but at least some improvement in 75% of these measures.

Bar graph. The horizontal axis shows five categories of measures. The vertical axis shows annual percent change in quality.

All measures (n =190) change: 1.4%
Hospital (n = 60) change: 2.8%
Home Health (n = 10) change: 2.5%
Long-Term Care (n = 15) change: 1.9%
Ambulatory Care (n = 100) change: 1.1%

n = number of measures

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