Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Volume 7 – Care Coordination

June 1, 2007 In April 2013, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the final Evidence Report in the series "Closing the Quality Gap" by the Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC). The report addresses the topic of care coordination. The other reports in the series have focused on specific clinical conditions (e.g., hypertension, diabetes,asthma), which lend themselves to a standardized approach for identifying and evaluating primary studies of quality improvement strategies. For the cross-cutting (applicable to all areas of health care) and more loosely defined topic of care coordination, there was no attempt . . .