National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, 2014: Introduction and Methods.

摘要

This year, AHRQ combined the National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report into a single document, the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR).The report is produced with the support of an HHS Interagency Work Group and guided by input from AHRQ’s National Advisory Council and the Institute of Medicine. As in previous years, the 2014 report tracks more than 250 health care process, outcome, and access measures, covering a wide variety of conditions and settings. Data years vary across measures; most trend analyses include data points from 2000-2002 to 2011-2012. It is important to note that the report provides a snapshot of health care prior to implementation of most of the health insurance expansions included in the Affordable Care Act and serves as a baseline to track progress in upcoming years. An exception is rates of uninsurance, which we are able to track through the first half of 2014.