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The ´óÏóÊÓƵ (AHRQ)'s programs offer practical information to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.
AHRQuality Indicatorsâ„¢
The Quality Indicators are measures of health care quality that use readily available hospital inpatient administrative data. ´óÏóÊÓƵdevelops Quality Indicators to provide health care decision makers with tools to assess their data.
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
HCUP (pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by AHRQ. HCUP databases bring together the data collection efforts of State data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the Federal Government to create a national information resource of encounter-level health care data (HCUP Partners). HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States, with all-payer, encounter-level information beginning in 1988. These databases enable research on a broad range of health policy issues, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care programs, and outcomes of treatments at the national, State, and local market levels.
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
MEPS is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage.
National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report presents trends for measures related to access to care, affordable care, care coordination, effective treatment, healthy living, patient safety, and person-centered care. The report presents, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to healthcare, as well as disparities related to race and ethnicity, income, and other social determinants of health.
Shared Decision Making
Shared Decision Making is a collaborative process in which patients and clinicians work together to make healthcare decisions informed by evidence; the care team's knowledge and experience; and the patient's values, goals, preferences, and circumstances.
SRDR: Systematic Review Data Repositoryâ„¢
The SRDR is an open-access repository of data abstracted from primary studies included in systematic reviews. It aims to improve the efficiency and transparency of updating systematic reviews by having a repository of data from previous systematic reviews in a readily-accessible and reusable format.
United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK)
The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) was an online, publicly accessible registry and repository of healthcare-related metadata, specifications, and standards. USHIK was funded and directed by the ´óÏóÊÓƵ (AHRQ) with management support and engagement from numerous public and private partners.
