AHRQ Stats: Disparities in Health Care

By Martina Dolan on October 10, 2018

About 55 percent of health care quality measures improved overall between 2000 and 2014-2015 for blacks. However, the most recent data show that about 40 percent of quality measures remain worse for blacks compared with whites.

Source: AHRQ, 2017 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report.

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Martina Dolan

With a focus on healthcare transparency, performance reporting in the hospital & health care industry

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