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 10 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 readmissions to U.S. hospitals, including readmissions involving specific conditions (diagnoses) and procedures.
The MEPS Insurance Component fields questionnaires to private and public sector employers to collect data on the number and types of private health insurance plans offered, benefits associated with these plans, annual premiums, annual contributions by employers and employees, eligibility requirements, and employer characteristics.
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®).
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.
The Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD) is a unique and powerful database designed to support various types of analyses of national readmission rates for all payers and the uninsured. The NRD includes discharges for patients with and without repeat hospital visits in a year and those who have died in the hospital. Repeat stays may or may not be related. The criteria to determine the relationship between hospital admissions is left to the analyst using the NRD. This database addresses a large gap in health care data - the lack of nationally representative information on hospital readmissions for all ages.
State Snapshots let users explore the quality of their State's health care or compare it with national rates or data from best-performing States.
AHRQ established the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS™) Databases as central repositories for survey data from each of the SOPS surveys. Healthcare organizations that administer one of the AHRQ patient safety culture surveys can voluntarily submit their data to the appropriate database.
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.