National Disparities Report Highlights Quality and Disparities Successes
The 2014 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report demonstrates that the nation has made clear progress in improving the healthcare delivery system to achieve the three aims of better care, smarter spending, and healthier people.
Quality has improved for most of the National Quality Strategy (NQS) priorities.
- Patient Safety improved resulting in a 17 percent reduction in rates of hospital-acquired conditions between 2010 and 2013, with 1.3 million fewer harms to patients, an estimated 50,000 lives saved, and $12 billion in cost savings.
- Person-Centered Care improved with large gains in patient-provider communication.
- Many Effective Treatment measures, including several measures of pneumonia care in hospitals publicly reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), achieved such high levels of performance that continued reporting is unnecessary.
- Healthy Living improved due to doubling of selected adolescent immunization rates from 2008 to 2012.
atom Alliance is dedicated to working with healthcare providers to achieve these NQS goals. The Alliance is especially focused on reducing disparities in the areas of cardiac health, diabetes care and adult immunizations.
AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Report
Preview: AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Report
