Thursday, May 17, 2007

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care: from The Commonwealth Fund

"Among the six nations studied—Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States—the U.S. ranks last, as it did in the 2006 and 2004 editions of Mirror, Mirror. Most troubling, the U.S. fails to achieve better health outcomes than the other countries, and as shown in the earlier editions, the U.S. is last on dimensions of access, patient safety, efficiency, and equity. The 2007 edition includes data from the six countries and incorporates patients' and physicians' survey results on care experiences and ratings on various dimensions of care."

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