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New Series on Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science

AHRQ has released a new series on Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science. In 2004, AHRQ launched a series of reports on quality improvement strategies, tools, and processes aimed at reducing gaps in quality in a number of areas, including hypertension, diabetes, coordination of care, and other topics. This new series of reports continues the focus on improving the quality of health care with the goal of applying and advancing the state of the science for improving the health care system for the benefit of all patients. Select to read about the new series of reports.
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Background

In 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) launched a collection of evidence reports to bring data to bear on quality improvement opportunities identified by an Institute of Medicine study, Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality.1 The 2004–2007 AHRQ collection—Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies—summarized the evidence on quality improvement strategies related to chronic conditions (diabetes, asthma, and hypertension), practice areas (prevention of health care–acquired infections and antibiotic prescribing behavior) and cross-cutting priorities (care coordination).2-8

A new series of reports, Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science (hereafter, CQG series), continues the focus on improving the quality of health care through critical assessment of relevant evidence for selected settings, interventions, and clinical conditions. As before, this series aims to assemble the evidence about effective strategies to close the “quality gap”—the difference between what is expected to work well for patients based on known evidence and what actually happens in day-to-day clinical practice across populations of patients. For every patient who receives optimal care, the evidence suggests that on average another patient does not.9,10 This series not only expands the topic terrain beyond that covered in the initial collection but also marshals the knowledge of eight Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs), with the goal of applying and advancing the state of the science for improving the health care system for the benefit of all patients.

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