How Does U.S. Healthcare Quality Fare Against 10 Countries?

The Commonwealth Fund has published a report comparing the U.S. healthcare system to healthcare systems across the world.

The report, "International Profiles of Health Care Systems, 2012," presents data on several performance indicators, including measures of care coordination and chronic care management. Below is a table excerpted from the report comparing the performance of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States on selected measures. Data is from 2011 except where noted.

Measure

Australia

Canada

France

Germany

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Sweden

Switzerland

U.K.

U.S.

Experienced medical, medication or lab test error in past two years

9%

21%

13%


16%


20%


22%


25%


20%


9%


8%

22%


Experienced gaps in hospital discharge planning in past two years

55%

50%

73%

61%

66%

51%

71%

67%

48%

26%

29%

In past year, healthcare professional has helped make treatment plan you could carry out in your daily life

61%

63%

53%

49%

52%

58%

41%

40%

74%

80%

71%

Mortality amenable to healthcare (deaths per 100,000 population) from 2006-7

57

n/a

55

76

66

79

64

61

n/a

83

96



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