Aiming Higher: Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance
Cantor JC, Belloff D, Schoen C, How SKH, McCarthy D. The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Aiming Higher: Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance. New York, New York: The Commonwealth Fund; June 2007.
This report features the first-ever comprehensive comparison of US health system performance. All 50 states are compared to benchmarks and ranked on 32 performance indicators of access, quality, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and "healthy lives." Some states ranked highly on multiple indicators, but none scored top marks in every area. The report concludes that federal and state action in key areas is necessary to achieve higher levels of performance and value.
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