Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Fiscal Year 2008 Annual Performance Report

摘要

In FY2007, AHRQ created the new Comparative Effectiveness Portfolio. The long-term objective of the Portfolio is to improve patients quality of care and health outcomes through informed decision making by patients, providers and payers. In an effort to measure if this goal is being achieved, AHRQ plans to track the data for a subset of Quality and Effectiveness of Care Measures that focus on the priority conditions that guide the work of the Effective Health Care Program. In FY2008, the portfolio initiated work to identify and review the Quality and Effectiveness of Care Measures and to limit the measures to a subset in the priority condition areas. Thus far, measures have been identified but a subset based on priority conditions has not yet been selected.