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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients with heart failure admitted to hospitals with higher 30-day readmission rates and deaths from all causes have a 24 percent higher risk of suffering one or more adverse events during their ...

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 ...

Between 2021 and 2022, average annual total outpatient prescription costs for oxycodone totaled $1.9 billion, and costs for hydrocodone totaled $700 million, accounting for nearly 75 percent of the ...

Between 2016 and 2021, the rate of delivery stays with respiratory-related severe maternal morbidity (SMM) complications increased 137 percent, the rate of stays with renal-related SMM complications ...