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:

ACOs with risk-bearing experience are likely taking steps to reduce low-value medical services
Accountable Care Organizations and post-acute care: a focus on preferred SNF networks
Audio-/videorecording clinic visits for patient's personal use in the United States: cross-sectional survey

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.