KFF October 9, 2024
This chart collection compares the United States and other large, high-income nations across various measures of care quality to show how the U.S. stacks up against its peers and how that has changed over time.
Generally, the U.S. performs worse in long-term health outcomes measures (such as life expectancy), certain treatment outcomes (such as maternal mortality and congestive heart failure hospital admissions), some patient safety measures (such as obstetric trauma with instrument and medication or treatment...