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.

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 ...

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 ...

eCare Plans support seamless care coordination, communication, and collaboration among members of the care team (patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals) to address the full spectrum of a ...

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 ...

Some states use some of their budget surpluses to support research. One example is in Texas, where they have created the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) and they are ...

There were 68.6 million outpatient prescription opioid fills between 2021 and 2022. Hydrocodone (25.2 million fills), oxycodone (19.2 million fills) and tramadol (14.1 million fills) accounted for ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

MODULES IN OTHER LANGUAGES Haitian Creole Spanish Tagalog LEADER RESOURCES Tools to help nursing home leaders implement the learning modules in a facility include— Nursing Home Learning Module Guide ...

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