Quality

Information for Consumers:

• "Guide to Health Care Quality: How to Know it When You See it" - Link to the pdf of the booklet produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    
  
• Emmi Safety – A series of programs that helps patients and their families understand what to expect throughout any medical procedure. Click on the image below to view a 5-minute online program that delivers safety tips to patients.

Articles of Interest:

• AHRQ Web site features innovations in health care delivery - 4/16/07
• AHRQ issues health care quality and disparities reports - 3/12/07
• Hospital Compare adds mortality data - 6/27/07
• New Joint Commission report portrays patient safety and health care quality performance of nation's hospitals
• HQA announces new measures for hospital reporting - 8-2-06
• HQA updates Hospital Compare data - 3-22-06
• HQA updates Hospital Compare data - 1-4-06
• Hospital quality Web site now features more data - 9-7-05
• Quality health care Web site supports Remaking American MedicineTM
• CMS presents Congress with its strategy for improving quality