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The 2005 State Snapshots are dashboards of health care quality measures. The Snapshots include detailed, customized tables for each State. They should help State officials and their partners understand health care quality in their State, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvements.

Specifically the 2005 State Snapshots provide:

Performance meters that show the State’s performance on summary measures of the quality of types of care, settings of care, and overall quality of health care relative to the region or Nation on each summary measure. Also included are breakdowns of the measures that go into creating each of the performance meters.

State Ranking Tables that rank each State on 15 important measures of health care quality.

In-depth focus on diabetes that provides information on quality, disparities, costs, and lives associated with diabetes, as well as potential savings that may result from a focused quality improvement program.

A downloadable table that includes all available NHQR measures with State-level estimates.

Methods on how the summary measures were developed, scored, and presented within the performance meters, as well as how the focus on diabetes section was constructed.