The 2004 National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) extends the baseline
established in the 2003 report for a set
of health care quality measures across four dimensions of quality—effectiveness,
patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.
The 2004 National Healthcare Quality Report focuses on highlight
measures, rather than a broad coverage of all 179 measures in the report.
The 2004 NHQR includes a report and two online appendixes.
The report presents findings, using an expanded chart format, on the effectiveness
of health care for nine clinical conditions or care settings—cancer,
diabetes, end-stage renal disease, heart disease, HIV and AIDS, maternal and
child health, mental health, respiratory diseases, and nursing home and home
health care— as well as findings on patient safety, timeliness, and patient
centeredness.
Appendixes include:
Current as of November 2006
Internet Citation:
National Healthcare Quality Report, 2004. Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhqr04/nhqr04.htm