The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) will release ‘The State of Health Care Quality: 2009’ report on Thursday, October 22, 2009.
Among the questions addressed by this year’s report:
– What systemic obstacles to quality must be addressed by national health care reform legislation?
– Why has performance on some key measures of health care quality failed to improve in the past year?
– Why does health care quality continue to vary from region to region?
– How are health care quality and health care spending related?