"The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system."

"Healthy People provides 10-year, measurable public health objectives — and tools to help track progress toward achieving them."

"The purpose of AHRQ's Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) program is to advance our scientific understanding of patient experience with health care."

"The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system."

General statistics from the American Hospital Association's annual survey of U.S. Hospitals

Statistics relating to U.S. hospital utilization from the National Center for Health Statistics

Statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics for U.S. physician office visits

"Data on health care facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes, community health centers, and rural health centers, and the health care workforce, such as physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and dentists. Data on access to care and health professional shortage areas are also included in this category."

"AllTrials is an international initiative of Ben Goldacre, BMJ, Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Cochrane Collaboration, James Lind Initiative, PLOS and Sense about Science and is being led in the US by Sense About Science USA, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice."

"CONSORT stands for Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials and encompasses various initiatives developed by the CONSORT Group to alleviate the problems arising from inadequate reporting of randomized controlled trials."

FDA report with guidance that "aims to provide recommendations for how sponsors can increase enrollment of underrepresented populations in their clinical trials."

OpenTrials is a collaboration between Open Knowledge International and Dr Ben Goldacre from the University of Oxford DataLab that "aims to locate, match, and share all publicly accessible data and documents, on all trials conducted, on all medicines and other treatments, globally."

A product of the University of Oxford, The DataLab "builds live, interactive data-driven tools and services for everyone to use."

This CDC site "highlights the strategies, projects, innovation and resources driving these initiatives."