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Figure 1. National Healthcare Quality Report Framework

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This conceptual framework is a matrix including components of health care quality, (e.g., effectiveness, safety, timeliness, patient centeredness, equity) and patient needs (e.g., staying healthy, getting netter, living with illness or disability, coping with the end of life).
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