Health Care Quality Improving, Some Americans Still Lack Access

AHRQ recently released the 2013 National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report. These two reports show that the overall quality of health care slowly improved from 2000 to 2011, yet Americans still received only 70 percent of recommended medical services. The reports also show that hospitals are leading the movement to improve quality, as the majority of hospital quality measures showed significant improvement. Despite these improvements, quality of care worsened for measures on diabetic checkups, Pap smears, maternal deaths at delivery, and receipt of asthma preventive care medicine.

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National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Tools for measuring health care quality, including the National Healthcare Disparities and Quality Reports, AHRQ Quality Indicators, and ambulatory clinical performance measures.

For the 11th year in a row, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has produced the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR). These reports measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care. The reports present, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care.

Accessible versions of the reports will be available in June. For assistance, please contact Doreen Bonnett at 301-427-1899 or Doreen.Bonnett@ahrq.hhs.gov.

National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR)

2013 PDF Version [ - 7.2 MB]
2012 Web Version | PDF Version [ - 8.09 MB] | State Snapshots
2011 Web Version | PDF Version [ - 4.89 MB] | State Snapshots
2010 Web Version | PDF Version [ - 27.53 MB] | State Snapshots
2009 Web Version | PDF Version [ - 3.14 MB] | State Snapshots

National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR)

2013 PDF Version [ - 8.25 MB]
2012 Web Version | PDF Version [ - .8.74 MB] | State Snapshots
2011 Web Version | PDF Version [ - 11.2 MB] | State Snapshots
2010 Web Version | PDF Version [ - 31.46 MB] | State Snapshots
2009 Web Version | PDF Version [ - 7.9 MB] | State Snapshots

Related Information

Current as of May 2014

Internet Citation: National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports. May 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/index.html