Introduction

Introduction

The Online Performance Appendix is one of several documents that fulfill the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS') performance planning and reporting requirements.�HHS achieves full compliance with the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 and Office of Management and Budget Circulars A-11 and A-136 through HHS agencies' Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Congressional Justifications and Online Performance Appendices, the Agency Financial Report and the HHS Performance Highlights. These documents can be found at: http://www.hhs.gov/budget/docbudget.htm and http://www.hhs.gov/afr/.

The Performance Highlights briefly summarizes key past and planned performance and financial information. The Agency Financial Report provides fiscal and high-level performance results.�The FY 2009 Department's Congressional Justifications fully integrate HHS' FY 2007 Annual Performance Report and FY 2009 Annual Performance Plan into its various volumes. The Congressional Justifications are supplemented by the Online Performance Appendices.�Where the Justifications focus on key performance measures and summarize program results, the Appendices provide performance information that is more detailed for all HHS measures.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Congressional Justification and Online Performance Appendix can be found at https://www.ahrq.gov/about/cj2009/cjweb09.htm.

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Summary of Measures and Results Table

^1. # of measures that currently have data available for FY 2007
^2. Improvement was reported in two (2) Pharmaceutical Outcomes measures
^3. Data are not yet available for FYs 2008 and 2009

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