Featured Studies 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:

Implementation science: a potential catalyst for delivery system reform
The hidden roles that management partners play in accountable care organizations
Accountability across the continuum: the participation of postacute care providers in accountable care organizations

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