AHRQ reports a slowdown in overall quality gains.
Expenditures rise 6.7% per year during same time period that quality improves only 2.3%. The good news: More than 93% of heart attack patients received the recommended hospital care, up from 77%. AHRQ suggests quality managers use its numbers for benchmarking.
D019985:Benchmarking; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality