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:

Overcoming Challenges to US Payment Reform: Could a Place-Based Approach Help?
A Comprehensive Theory of Integration
A Systematic Review of Vertical Integration and Quality of Care, Efficiency and Patient-Centered Outcomes

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.