The quality of the U.S. health system is improving, but the United States is still lagging behind other comparable countries, according to Kaiser Family Foundation.
Here are four points:
1. The United States has improved on quality measures such as mortality amenable to healthcare, the number of hospital-acquired infections and the percentage of children receiving all recommended doses of vaccines.
2. However, the United States has not done well on other measured such as health-related quality of life.
3. In relation to other countries, the United States outperforms countries of comparable wealth on certain measures such as wait times for specials visits as well as hospital admission rates for uncontrolled diabetes.
4. Other comparable countries outperform the United States on a significant number of measures including life expectancy at birth, cost-related challenges to healthcare access, the rates of retained surgical items as well as the burden of disease.
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