Message from the Acting Director
Message from the Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Part 1. AHRQ Activities and Accomplishments, FY 2002
Health Care in America
Addressing Health Care Challenges
Moving Ahead in a New Century
AHRQ: Working to Improve Health Care in America
Health Care Costs and Sources of Payment
Health Insurance
Health Status
Use of Health Care
Access to Care
Health Care Disparities
Role and Mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AHRQ's Customers
How AHRQ's Research Helps People
Policymakers Use AHRQ's Research in Many Ways
AHRQ's Research Findings Help Clinicians and Patients
AHRQ's Research Findings Help Health Systems Managers, Consumers, and Purchasers of Care
AHRQ's Research Portfolio
Opportunities for Research
Unique AHRQ Research Investments
Innovative Research: Addressing Current and Emerging Challenges
Building the Research Infrastructure
Investments in Training
Partnerships and Coordination
Translating Research Into Practice
Improving Primary Care Through Practice-Based Research
Fast-Track Research Through Integrated Systems
Partnerships for Quality
Monitoring the Nation's Health Care Safety Net
Strategic Goals and Performance Planning at AHRQ
Goal 1 – Outcomes Research
Measuring the Benefits, Risks, and Results of Research
Prevention Research: Keeping People Healthy
Putting Prevention Into Practice
Promoting Safe and Effective Use of Pharmaceuticals
Promoting Evidence-Based Health Care
Finding the Evidence for Quality Health Care
Goal 2 – Quality
Making Quality Count
Patient Safety and Reducing Errors in Medicine
Working Conditions and Quality of Care
Tools for Patients and Health Care Consumers
Making Quality Count for Patients and Consumers
National Healthcare Quality Report
National Healthcare Disparities Report
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™
Goal 3 – Costs, Use, and Access to Health Care
Addressing Challenges to Care
Impact of Payment and Organization on Cost, Quality, and Equity
Health Care Markets and Managed Care
Research on Lowering Health Care Costs
Current Research on Health Care Costs
Enhancing Access to Care
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Collecting MEPS Data
Databases and Other MEPS Products
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
State Inpatient Databases
Use of HCUP Data
Nationwide Inpatient Sample
State Ambulatory Surgery Databases
User-Friendly Software Tools for Quality Improvement
Research on Health Care for Priority Populations
Health Care for Minorities, Women, and Children
Minority Health
Women's Health
Breast and Cervical Cancer
Domestic Violence
Children's Health
Rapid Cycle Research
Bioterrorism Research
Making Timely HIV/AIDS Information Available
Promoting Evidence-Based State and Local Health Policymaking
Outreach to State and Local Health Officials
Research Translation for Health Care Policymaking
AHRQ's Financial Performance, 2002
Overview of Financial Performance
Budgetary Resources
Mechanisms of Support
Analysis of Financial Statements
Consolidated Balance Sheet
Consolidated Statement of Net Cost
Statement of Changes in Net Position
Statement of Budgetary Resources
Combined Statement of Financing
Other Performance Issues
Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA)
Information Technology
President's Management Agenda
Financial Statements and Notes
Consolidated Balance Sheet
Consolidated Statement of Net Cost
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Net Position
Statement of Budgetary Resources
Combined Statement of Financing
Notes to the Principal Financial Statements
Note 1 – Significant Accounting Policies
Note 2 – Fund Balances with Treasury
Note 3 – Accounts Receivable, Net
Note 4 – General Property, Plant, and Equipment, Net
Note 5 – Accrued Grant Advance
Note 6 – Liabilities Not Covered by Budgetary Resources
Note 7 – Grant Awards
Required Supplementary Stewardship Information (RSSI)
Investment in Research and Development
Appendixes
Appendix A. AHRQ's Organizational Structure
Appendix B. AHRQ's Organizational Chart, FY 2002
Appendix C. National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality
Appendix D. AHRQ's Research Continuum
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