2008 National Health Care Quality Report

March 2009 Researchers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sought to report on progress and opportunities for improving health care quality, as mandated by the U.S. Congress. The research is built on 220 measures that represent four dimensions of quality: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness. For this report, the researchers focused on the state of health care quality for a group of 45 core report measures that represent the most important and scientifically credible measures of quality. The measures selected for inclusion are derived from the most current scientific knowledge and are also measures for . . .