Attachment C – AHRQ QDR NQS Data and Product Summary

AHRQ QDR NQS Data and Product Summary

Link to the National Quality Strategy website: http://www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/

Link to the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report website: https://nhqrnet.ahrq.gov/inhqrdr/

National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports Products

1. Annual Reports (National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports): The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports provide a comprehensive overview of the quality of health care received by the general U.S. population and disparities in care experienced by different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. This report measures national trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care. Since 2014, the National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report have been combined into a single report, the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report.

2. State Snapshots: The State Snapshots are dashboards of health care quality measures that provide state-specific health care quality information, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The goal is to help state officials and their public- and private-sector partners better understand health care quality and disparities in their state.

3. Chartbooks: Chartbooks provide more detailed information on specific topics, such as access to care, patient safety, and healthy living and include individual measures.

4. Data Query: Data Query is an interactive tool that can be used to access national and State data from the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. Data and trends are available based on particular subject areas, topics, or measures.

5. National summary data (National View): The National View compares quality measures to achievable benchmarks, which are derived from the top-performing states.

6. State summary data (State View): State View is an interactive state map that lets users select a state from a drop-down menu to view State Snapshots and explore the quality of each state's health care, and compare it with national rates or data from best-performing states.

National Quality Strategy Products

1. Annual Progress Reports/Updates: The National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care (the National Quality Strategy) submits an Annual Progress Report to Congress, which describes the progress against the six priorities, toward achieving the three aims. Starting in 2015, the Annual Progress Report to Congress was published with the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report.

2. Priorities in Action: Priorities in Action feature some of our nation's most promising and transformative quality improvement programs, and describes their alignment to the National Quality Strategy’s six priorities.

3. Priorities in Focus: The National Quality Strategy Priorities in Focus series spotlights current issues, recent federal initiatives to improve care quality, and data demonstrating improvement in each of the six priority areas. Each brief aligns with an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Chartbook that draws on data from the 2015 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report.

4. Stakeholder Toolkits: These toolkits can be used by organizations to showcase their alignment and support of the National Quality Strategy, and include shareable content including fact sheets, web content, slides and social media announcements.

5. Webinars: Webinars cover a range of programs, initiatives and topics related to health care quality and disparities. Presentations and discussions revolve around National Quality Strategy efforts towards better, more affordable health care and how organizations can help improve health care quality by aligning to the Strategy.

6. Fact Sheets: Fact sheets provide an overview of topics related to the National Quality Strategy.