What is the purpose of the National Health Quality Report (NHQR)?
a. To report on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's goals for the year
b. To describe the yearly activities of the agency
c. To ensure national quality of services
d. To document if health care quality is stable, improving, or declining over time
D
The NHQR is intended to serve a number of purposes, including the documentation of whether health care quality is stable, improving, or declining over time; demonstrating the validity (or lack) of concerns about quality; and providing national benchmarks against which specific states, health plans, and providers can compare their performance.
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