Comparative Health System Performance Initiative: Compendium Of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, Technical Documentation

 This report was released on September 19, 2017, by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The report accompanies the recently released Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, as part of a larger AHRQ project to compare health system performance and promotion of evidence-based practices in delivering care, with the end goal of understanding the factors that affect health systems’ use of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and to identify best practices in disseminating and using PCOR. In this report, the researchers explained how they identified and enumerated health systems . . .