Data Sources & Measurement

KEY POINTSCDC reported a provisional 2025 age-adjusted death rate of 689.2 deaths per 100,000 population, the lowest ever reported death rate and 4.6% below the final 2024 rate of 722.1 deaths per 100,000 population.CDC notes that the published 2024

Executive SummaryBackground. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) supports intradepartmental efforts to build data capacity for patient-centered outcomes research and to improve evidence generation for healthcare decision-making.

Executive SummaryBackground. The United States (U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) supports intradepartmental efforts to build data capacity for patient-centered outcomes research and to improve evidence generation for healthcare decisionmaking.

The United States (U.S.) faces urgent health challenges, including poor maternal and childhood health outcomes, childhood obesity, opioid use disorder, cancer, and chronic conditions, which require personalized care tailored to each patient’s unique circumstances.

The U.S. behavioral health (BH) workforce faces significant shortages and distribution disparities, hindering access to quality care and worsening health outcomes. A comprehensive, centralized database of BH providers is vital for advancing patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR), comparative effectiveness research (CER), and evidence-based policymaking.

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This brief describes differences in engagement in child support for custodial parents living in rural and nonrural areas. Key findings are below.Key Points:

This report and accompanying discussion by ASPE and NORC highlights the claims data limitations identified during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Health (PHE) and provides considerations to address these limitations. The report identifies that limitations related to claims data were existing issues, exacerbated by, but not unique to, the COVID-19 PHE.

This report presents the set of guiding principles for linking state Medicaid data with birth certificates that was developed by state and national experts and leaders. These guiding principles can be implemented to create a multistate linked database that researchers would be able to access and use for research on maternal health, including patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR).

Improving health equity in the United States is a priority for the Biden-Harris Administration in order to address longstanding disparities in health outcomes. Health inequities can be conceptualized and measured as drivers of differences in health outcomes.