This chart collection compares america and different equally giant and rich nations throughout varied measures of care high quality to indicate how the U.S. stacks up in opposition to its friends and the way that has modified over time.
Typically, the U.S. performs worse in long-term well being outcomes measures (resembling life expectancy), sure therapy outcomes (resembling maternal mortality and congestive coronary heart failure hospital admissions), some affected person security measures (resembling obstetric trauma with instrument), and well being system capability (resembling price of normal practitioners). The U.S. performs equally to or higher than peer nations in different measures of therapy outcomes (resembling mortality charges inside 30 days of acute hospital therapy) and a few affected person security measures (resembling post-operative issues).
The chart assortment is a part of the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, a web based data hub devoted to monitoring and assessing the efficiency of the U.S. well being system.
