Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
Institute of Medicine Report
By the Committee on Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports, Board on Health Care Services, Cheryl Ulmer, Michelle Bruno, and Sheila Burke, Editors


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The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports (NHQR and NHDR) play a fundamental role in examining quality improvement and disparities reduction. In this report, prepared at the request of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) suggests ways to reformulate and enhance our Nation's essential measures of quality and equity, to facilitate informed decisionmaking, and to help set the strategic direction of the Nation's quality improvement enterprise.


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Internet Citation:

Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. December 2010. AHRQ Publication No. 11-0026-EF. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/iomqrdrreport/

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Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports