NHQR State Snapshots - Performance Measures

Summary measures of quality of care and States' performances relative to all States and the region by:

Overall health care quality
Types of care (preventive, acute, and chronic)
Settings of care (hospitals, ambulatory care, nursing home, and home health)
Five clinical conditions (cancer, diabetes, heart disease, maternal and child health, and respiratory diseases)
Special focus areas on diabetes, asthma, Healthy People 2010, clinical preventive services, disparities, payer, and variation over time

Oncologist preferences for health States associated with the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer - (interview with 34 oncologists) - abstract

Objective:
"To explore oncologists' preferences for hypothetical outcome scenarios (i.e. health states) resulting from various treatment options."
Conclusions:
"These data suggest that oncologists may choose treatments that maximize clinical efficacy only when not associated with severe toxicities or low emotional well-being unless associated with a large improvement in efficacy. Physicians may prefer a more toxic chemotherapy regimen that improves survival, and are more willing to compromise emotional well-being for a large survival advantage in the setting of newly diagnosed disease. Slight improvements in clinical efficacy may not be acceptable to oncologists unless associated with higher emotional well-being for the patient."