National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care
Data
- Data Infographics
- Data Visualizations
- Data Tools
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- All-Payer Claims Database
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
- Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
- AHRQ Quality Indicator Tools for Data Analytics
- State Snapshots
- United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK)
- Data Sources Available from AHRQ
Tools
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.
Tracking and Improving Screening for Colorectal Cancer
This toolkit includes materials for planning an intervention, identifying a central entity to manage the program, educating medical practices about the program, and communicating with patients.
Date Published: September 2012 Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital
Transitioning Newborns From NICU to Home: A Resource Toolkit
This toolkit provides customizable resources for hospitals that wish to improve safety when newborns transition home from the neonatal intensive care unit by creating a health coach program.
Date Published: December 2013 Setting of Care: Hospital
Will It Work Here? A Decisionmaker's Guide to Adopting Innovations
This Guide helps decisionmakers determine if an innovation would be a good fit—or an appropriate stretch—for their healthcare organization and links users to actionable tools.
Date Published: September 2008 Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital, Long-term Care