Studies Featured on the Nation’s Health Systems

AHRQ’s Comparative Health System Performance Initiative funds studies about how health care delivery systems promote evidence-based practices and patient-centered outcomes research in delivering care. Publications include:

Random or predictable? Adoption patterns of chronic care management practices in physician organizations
Explaining sluggish savings under accountable care
ACOs serving high proportions of racial and ethnic minorities lag in quality performance

Access the initiative’s Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, the first publicly available database that provides researchers, policymakers and health care administrators with a snapshot of the nation’s health systems.