The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF)’s Health Care Almanac provides some unique insights on trends in health care quality in California and for the United States as a whole. Many of the national figures for the Almanac come from the CDC (BRFSS and Vital Stats) and AHRQ’s National Healthcare Quality Report. California quality figures come from the California Department of Public Health, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and the California Health Interview Survey.
Although not discussed in this post, another portion of the Health Care Almanac looks at quality by site of service. Much of this data comes from Hospital Compare, CMS OASIS data, AHRQ’s National Healthcare Quality Report, and the Dartmouth Atlas.
Today I highlight 3 topics related to clinical quality:
- Cesarean Deliveries
- Infant Mortality
- Cancer Incidence.
More detail is below.
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