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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some states use some of their budget surpluses to support research. One example is in Texas, where they have created the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) and they are ...

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 2018 and 2022, 21.7 percent of healthcare expenditures were associated with the top 1 percent of spenders. The bottom 50 percent of spenders accounted for less than 3 percent of expenditures. ...

The purpose of the Best Practices in Public Reporting series is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performance information clear, meaningful, and usable ...

This module will cover the Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) framework. The TRIP framework lets us dig deeper into implementing the evidence-based interventions. We will also discuss gap ...