Envisioning the national health care quality report / Committee on the the National Quality Report on Health Care Delivery ; Margarita P. Hurtado, Elaine K. Swift, and Janet M. Corrigan, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the National Quality Report on Health Care Delivery.

Contributor:

Hurtado, Margarita Patricia.

Swift, Elaine K., 1957-

Corrigan, Janet.

United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--United States--Quality control.

Medical care.

Health services accessibility--Quality control--United States.

Health services accessibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. ; [Great Britain] : National Academy Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How good is the quality of health care in the United States? Is quality improving? Or is it suffering? While the average person on the street can follow the state of the economy with economic indicators, we do not have a tool that allows us to track trends in health care quality. Beginning in 2003, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will produce an annual report on the national trends in the quality of health care delivery in the United States. AHRQ commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to help develop a vision for this report that will allow national and state policy makers, providers, consumers, and the public at large to track trends in health care quality. Envisioning the National Health Care Quality Report offers a framework for health care quality, specific examples of the types of measures that should be included in the report, suggestions on the criteria for selecting measures, as well as advice on reaching the intended audiences. Its recommendations could help the national health care quality report to become a mainstay of our nation's effort to improve health care.

Contents:

Cover

Front Matter

REVIEWERS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Executive Summary

1 Introduction

2 Defining the Contents of the Data Set: The National Health Care Quality Framework

3 Selecting Measures for the National Health Care Quality Data Set

4 Data Sources for the National Health Care Quality Report

5 Designing the National Health Care Quality Report

APPENDIX A Workshop: Envisioning a National Quality Report on Health Care

APPENDIX B Designing a Comprehensive National Report on Effectiveness of Care: Measurement, Data Collection, and Reporting Strategies

APPENDIX C Submissions in Response to the IOM Committee's Call for Measures from the Private Sector

APPENDIX D Selected Approaches to Thinking About Quality and the National Health Care Quality Report

APPENDIX E Quality Measure Selection Criteria

Glossary

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Biographical Sketches of Committee Members.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780309171151

0309171156

9780309504737

0309504732

OCLC:

54356370