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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1-10 of 14 Resources displayedThese HCUP Statistical Briefs provide statistics about emergency department visits in community hospitals in the United States. Topics include reasons for emergency room visits among adults and children and transfers to other health care facilities from the emergency department.
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.
These HCUP Statistical Briefs provide statistics about hospitalizations for conditions unique to women, specifically pregnancy and childbirth.
HCUPnet is a free, on-line query system based on data from HCUP. The system provides health care statistics and information for hospital inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory settings, as well as population-based health care data on counties.
The Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) is the only all-payer pediatric inpatient care database in the United States, containing data from two to three million hospital stays. Its large sample size is ideal for developing national and regional estimates and enables analyses of rare conditions, such as congenital anomalies, as well as uncommon treatments, such as organ transplantation.
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.
Several quality of health care items are asked in the self-administered questionnaire of the MEPS- Household Component. Topics include experiences with getting an appointment, experiences at the appointment, and smoking and blood pressure related topics. Quality of care measures were taken from AHRQ’s Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®).
The MEPS Household Component collects some questions specific to women related to preventive care. The type of medical conditions associated with events are collected, enabling identification of conditions specific to women. In addition to the publications listed below, many of the statistical briefs and other analytical reports using MEPS-HC data include breakouts and analysis by gender.
This report measures trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and access to care. The report presents, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care.
The Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) produces national estimates about emergency department (ED) visits across the country. The NEDS describes ED visits, regardless of whether they result in admission. One of the most distinctive features of the NEDS is its large sample size, which allows for analysis across hospital types and the study of relatively uncommon disorders and procedures.