The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released its 2013 National Healthcare Disparities Report. The report identifies which quality measures have improved from 2000 through 2001 to 2010 through 2011.
Here are the 10 quality measures that are improving nationwide.
1. Patients with colon cancer receiving recommended treatment.
2. Adult patients with HIV who received highly active antiretroviral therapy during the year.
3. Adolescents between ages 13 and 15 who received at least one dose of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine.
4. Adolescents between ages 16 and 17 who received at least one dose of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine.
5. Adolescents between ages 13 and 15 who received at least one dose of the tetanus-diptheria-acellular pertussis booster.
6. Adolescents ages 16 to17 who received at least one dose of the diphtheria-acllular pertussis booster.
7. Hospital patients over 50 with pneumonia who received a vaccination.
8. Hospital patients with pneumonia who received an influenza screening or vaccination.
9. Hospital patients with a heart attack who received a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes of arrival.
10. Hospital patients with heart failure who are given complete, written discharge instructions.
Here are the eight quality measures that are worsening nationwide.
1. Women between ages 21 and 65 who received a Pap smear in the past three years.
2. Diabetic adults older than 40 who had their feet checked for sores in the calendar year.
3. Admissions for patients at least 18 years old with diabetes with short term-complications, per 100,000 population.
4. Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
5. Children between 19 and 35 months who received at least three doses of Haemophilius influenzae type B vaccination.
6. Suicide deaths per 100,000 population.
7. People with asthma taking preventive medicine daily or almost daily.
8. Postoperative physiological and metabolic derangements per 1,000 elective surgery admissions for patients at least 18 years old.
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