AHRQs National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports: An Ever-Expanding Road Map for Improvement

摘要

In my April 2006 AHRQUpdate (Clancy 2006) I discussed enhancements to the National Healthcare Quality Report(NKQK2006) and the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR 2006), annual reports produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In this issue, my colleagues and I would like to continue our conversation with you about these reports which have become vitally important tools in our efforts to eliminate heath care disparities and improve the quality of health care services. Since I last wrote about them in this journal, we have an additional year of trend data for many of the measures included in the reports, and we released a new website which provides quality, and some disparities data by state, and we are poised to release a new online resource that will make national health care quality and disparities data even more accessible.