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:

Patient engagement in ACO practices and patient-reported outcomes among adults with co-occurring chronic disease and mental health conditions
Using health IT to coordinate care and improve quality in safety-net clinics
Are value-based incentives driving behavior change to improve value?

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.