Để Làm cho đời sống của bệnh nhân tốt hơn NHQR tập trung trên quan điểm quốc gia về chất lượng chăm sóc sức khỏe. Điều này xem chất lượng chăm sóc sức khỏe thường xa rời thực tế hàng ngày phải đối mặt với các nhà cung cấp dịch vụ chăm sóc y tế và bệnh nhân trong phòng khám và bệnh viện. | J. Efforts To Make Patients Lives Better The NHQR concentrates on the national view of health care quality. This view of health care quality is often far removed from the daily reality faced by health care providers and patients in clinics and hospitals. At the same time however the statistics that are reported in the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports reflect the everyday experiences of patients and their doctors and nurses across the Nation. It makes a difference in people s lives when breast cancer is diagnosed early with timely mammography when a patient suffering from a heart attack is given the correct life-saving treatment in a timely fashion when medications are correctly administered and when doctors listen to their patients show them respect and answer their questions. These are the statistics that are reported in this year s NHQR. This report documents important progress in making patients lives better. At the same time however it highlights many areas where much more could be done to use the data in the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports to target policy and clinical interventions to improve care. Each of the 50 000 data points that have been produced and reported during the past 5 years represents groups of patients across the country. The hope is that the next 5 years will see greater use of data for decision-making so that those patients begin to experience true quality improvement in American health care. References 1. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. State Snapshots. Available at http statesnapshots menuId 1 state . Accessed August 6 2007. 2. Cantor JC Schoen C Belloff D et al. Aiming higher results from a state scorecard on health system performance. The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System June 2007. 3. Kahn CN Ault T Isenstein H et al. Snapshot of hospital quality reporting and pay-for-performance under Medicare. Health Aff 2006 Jan-Feb 25
