Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Performance Reporting to Inform and Stimulate Action

• Importance of AHRQ Quality and Disparities reports and efforts to develop performance indicators: supporting efforts to improve
• Need for focus on whole system and how dimensions interact: Access, Quality, Efficiency and Equity
  • Examples from Fund sponsored work that builds on AHRQ
  • Composites and benchmarks
  • Geographic and care system variations
  • Efficiency (quality/cost) indicators
• Where performance reporting in going
  • U.S. and international examples
• Future directions: critical role of public performance information & analysis to guide and drive change