Quality Of Care

Quality of care encompasses many aspects of patient care. Providing high quality care is ensuring that care is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. Care providers, insurers, delivery systems, and quality improvement organizations are focused on improving the quality of care. Different approaches can be taken to ensure standards of quality of care are met, they can entail evidence-based decisions, performance assessment, and explicit efforts to improve quality, reduce errors, and involve patients in care decisions. However, gaps and inconsistency can exist in quality of care which lead to health disparities.

On this page, you will find content from Health Affairs on quality of care and closely related topics, such as systems of care, government programs and policies, patient care, patient safety, and health outcomes.