AHRQ fact sheet aligns providers to National Quality Strategy
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has published a new fact sheet to align providers to the National Quality Strategy (NQS).
The fact sheet specifically outlines nine levers in the NQS to serve as a guiding force in quality improvement efforts in the U.S. for federal, state and private-sector stakeholders to improve patient health and healthcare quality.
“Stakeholders can now align to the strategy in a new way, using one or more of the nine ‘levers’... Each lever represents a core business function, resource and/or action that stakeholders can use to align to the strategy. In many cases, stakeholders may already be using these levers but haven’t connected these activities to NQS alignment,” according to the agency.
These nine levers include: payment; public reporting; learning and technical assistance; certification, accreditation and regulation; consumer incentives and benefit designs; measurement and feedback; health IT; workforce development; and innovation and diffusion.
Access the fact sheet here and learn more about general AHRQ efforts here.