The CAHPS ® Cancer Care Survey assesses the experiences of adult patients with cancer treatment provided in outpatient and inpatient settings, including: Independent community oncology practices.

The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) End-of-Life Care Survey assesses healthcare experiences in the last month of life, including care experiences across a range of ...

Care coordination in the primary care practice involves deliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with a patient's care to achieve ...

An accurate measurement system is an important component of the quality improvement process that allows staff to determine if changes in care lead to improvement. The Tracking Record for Improving ...

People in the top 1 percent of healthcare expenses spent an average of $147,071 in 2022, a decrease of approximately $30,000 from 2021. (Source: AHRQ Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Statistical Brief ...

Before you decide which quality measures to report, it is helpful to know what kinds of data you will need to produce the scores for the measure. Sometimes, the data you want to report already exist ...

Between 2018 and 2022, 21.7 percent of healthcare expenditures were associated with the top 1 percent of spenders. The bottom 50 percent of spenders accounted for less than 3 percent of expenditures. ...

IPV, which includes “any physical or sexual violence, stalking, and/or psychological aggression by a current or former dating partner or spouse,” 1 is both prevalent and underdiagnosed in primary care ...

How did you become interested in primary care research? Prior to my Ph.D. program, I worked for a few health departments, one on the border of tribal land serving mostly rural communities in the ...

The Virginia Task Force on Primary Care is a dynamic public/ private partnership designed to unite leaders from various disciplines and industries to tackle the pressing challenges and seize ...

AHRQ funds primary care research that produces actionable findings and real-world impact to improve primary care delivery and outcomes. Click on the links below to learn about just some of the recent ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care ...