2013 National Healthcare Quality & National Healthcare Disparities Reports

Detailed Methods

The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports provide a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care and disparities in health care in the United States. They are organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

This appendix provides detailed methodological and statistical information about the following selected databases and surveys analyzed for the 2013 reports:

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP): Refer to Methods Applying AHRQ Quality Indicators to Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Data for the Eleventh (2013) NHQR and NHDR Report.
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS).

Current as of August 2014

Internet Citation: 2013 National Healthcare Quality & National Healthcare Disparities Reports: Detailed Methods. August 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr13/methods/index.html