Featured Studies on the Nation's Health Systems

AHRQ's Comparative Health System Performance Initiative funds studies about how healthcare delivery systems promote evidence-based practices and patient-centered outcomes research in delivering care. Publications include:

• Producing comparable cost and quality results from all-payer claims databases
• Understanding U.S. health systems: using mixed methods to unpack organizational complexity
• How do accountable care organizations deliver preventive care services? A mixed-methods study

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