2008 National Healthcare Quality Report AHRQ 09-0001
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, March 2009. 153 pp. Report focuses on quality of care and disparities in health care in America, overall and for AHRQ's priority populations. Finds that health care quality continues to improve, but the rate of improvement has slowed. In addition, variations in the quality of health care across the Nation are decreasing but not for all measures. The safety of health care also has worsened, and more needs to be done.
