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This collection of charts and a related brief explore a number of different metrics used to look at health outcomes, quality of care, and access to services. Inconsistent or unavailable data and imperfect metrics make it difficult to firmly judge …
The Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker is launching a new Health System Dashboard that will track U.S. health system performance over time across four domains: health spending, quality of care, access and affordability, and health and wellbeing. The dashboard examines trends …
This chart collection and a related brief take a look at how utilization and price of healthcare in the United States compare to similarly wealthy and sizable OECD countries. Generally speaking, people in the U.S. use health services overall less …
Over the past half-century, the U.S. has seen sizable improvements in both mortality and disease burden due to cardiovascular disease, along with recent signs of improvement in the quality of care provided to heart disease patients. Cardiovascular disease — which …
Note: A related chart collection is now updated with more recent data.
Mental health and substance use disorders are the leading cause of disease burden in the United States. With 10.1 deaths due to mental health or substance abuse disorders …
Compared to similar countries, the United States has higher rates of mortality for most of the leading causes of death, and generally performs worse on a variety of quality indicators. Diabetes and endocrine diseases are no exception. There has been …
This collection of charts and a related brief explore trends in health outcomes, quality of care, and treatment costs for people with diabetes and related endocrine disorders. Endocrine diseases occur when any of the eight major glands in the endocrine …
How can we know if the performance of the health system overall in the U.S. is good and if it is getting better or worse over time? Can a meaningful and reasonably understandable set of national quality measures be identified, …
How can we know if the performance of the health system overall in the U.S. is good and if it is getting better or worse over time? This collection of charts and a related brief explore trends in quality metrics …
A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model resulted in a net shared savings of $134 million in 2012 and $99 million in 2013.
ACOs were introduced into Medicare …