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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1-6 of 6 Resources displayedThe 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.
These HCUP Statistical Briefs provide statistics about injuries that result in emergency department visits. Topics include sports-related injuries, motor vehicle accidents, firearm-related injuries, and bicycle-related injuries that result in visits to the emergency room.
The MEPS Household Component fields questionnaires to individual household members to collect nationally representative data on demographic characteristics, health conditions, health status, use of medical care services, charges and payments, access to care, satisfaction with care, health insurance coverage, income, and employment.
Children can be identified by the age variables in the MEPS-Household Component, allowing most MEPS analyses to be performed for children.
MEPS provides state-level health insurance data for employer-sponsored plans through the MEPS-Insurance Component. Beginning in 2004, MEPS-IC also provides a subset of these data for selected metropolitan areas.
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.