by Emily DeVoto
April 5, 2007 at 1:37 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized
A recent edition of the Health Affairs Blog introduces the National Health Care Disparities and Healthcare Quality Reports from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; these are annual reports that examine national-level data - both on processes and outcomes - that benchmark progress in improving quality and reducing disparities in the U.S. The blog post also points to seven recent papers in Health Affairs on practice variations in health care settings in the developing world; these papers are released as part of the journal’s global health initiative.
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The Commonwealth Fund has done some very illuminating work comparing the U.S. health care system to that of other countries http://www.cmwf.org/topics/topics.htm?attrib_id=12009
Generally, we stack up poorly. We spend more per capita (by far) than any other nation and we are generally very midling in most measures of health outcomes.
The articles you point to focus on practice variation in low income countries; my recollection comparing practice variation in the U.S. against other countries is that we again are fairly average…perhaps your memory is better than mine.
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