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Slide 2. Opportunity for Improvement

Preventable Hospitalization Costs and Mapping Tool

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  • Annual national cost: $30B.*
  • Represents issues of prevention, primary care, access, and care coordination.
  • To reduce avoidable hospitalizations, need to know details:
    • What types of care have the most room for improvement?

* Based on a composite of the AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicators using 2006 data and dollars as reported in the National Healthcare Quality Report (2009).

Image: a drawing of a hospital.

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Page last reviewed July 2010
Internet Citation: Slide 2. Opportunity for Improvement: Preventable Hospitalization Costs and Mapping Tool. July 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://archive.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/ockt/kt/webinars/monahrq/bott/bottsld2.html

 

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