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Quality Care: Protecting Our Patients

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AAPA's Quality Care Committee is dedicated to ensuring that PAs deliver safe, cost-effective, high quality patient care and that PAs work to improve the health care system. Here you'll find a variety of resources to aid in that mission.

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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently released new national reports on the quality of care. The reports are available on AHRQ's Quality Tools Web page.

• The National Healthcare Disparities Report
  • Summary
  • Downloadable prepublication
• The National Healthcare Quality Report
  • Summary
  • Downloadable prepublication

Other Resources:

• The Institute of Medicine's Health Care Quality Initiative
• The Commonwealth Fund
  • The Role of the Federal Government in Improving Health Care Quality: An Expert Discussion
    Live Webcast on January 13, 2004, 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET