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:

Early effects of Medicare’s bundled payment for care improvement program for lumbar fusion
Characteristics of interim publications of randomized clinical trials and comparison with final publications
Determinants of success in shared savings programs: an analysis of ACO and market characteristics

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.