More Quality and Value Projects and Publications

Quality Measure Development

Projects:

Clinical Quality Measures for Electronic Clinical Quality Measure Development
Developing Quality Measures for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Schizophrenia

Quality Measurement and Monitoring

Projects:

Physician Quality Reporting System and Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program Support
Recovery—Comparative Effectiveness Research Data Infrastructure Medicaid Analytic eXtract Production, Enhancement, and Data Quality
Minnesota’s Health Reform Initiative: Provider Peer Grouping
National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program
Physician Quality Reporting System and Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program Support
Child Care Quality Rating and System Assessment
Development, Maintenance, and Support of Hospital Outpatient, Outpatient Imaging Efficiency, Psychiatric Inpatient, and Cancer Hospitals Quality-of-Care Measures
Healthcare Quality Information System—Phase III
Production and Implementation of the CMS Hospital Outcomes and Efficiency Measures II
Program Evaluation of the Eighth and Ninth Scope of Work Quality Improvement Program
Public Reporting of Provider Quality: Research and Testing
Transparency in Public Reporting: Consumer Testing and Enhancements to CMS’s Compare Tools
Environmental Scan of Public Reporting Programs and Analysis
Evaluation of the National Quality Forum Consensus Development Process
Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) Data Development: 2003-2007
Production and Implementation of Hospital Outcome/Efficiency Measures
Technical Consulting Services to Support the Long-Term Care Quality Alliance (LTCQA)
Develop Strategies for Validation Methodology, Cost Estimates, and Impact on Underserved Areas
Development of Physician and Other Clinical Quality Measures
Medicare Quality Measurement Support, Mortality Implementation and Measures Development and Monitoring
Assessment of the Title V Block Grant Program’s and the Discretionary Grants Programs’ Performance Measures
Development of Physician Quality Measures

Publications:

"Choosing Wisely: Selecting Outcomes for Comparative Effectiveness Research on Services for Adults with Disabilities"(July 2011)
“Identifying, Monitoring, and Assessing Promising Innovations: Using Evaluation to Support Rapid-Cycle Change" (June 2011)
"The Implications of Comparative Effectiveness Research for Academic Medicine" (June 2011)
"Basing Health Care on Empirical Evidence" (May 2010)
"Evaluating System Change: A Planning Guide" (April 2010)
"What Physicians Think About Resource Use Reports" (June 2009)
"Characteristics of High-Impact Investigator-Initiated Research: Results from Selected Case Studies" (June 2009)
"Looking Behind the Numbers: Patient Experiences in the Military Health System" (June 2009)
"Measuring Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Efforts to Improve Data Collection" (May 2009)
"Patterns of Hospital Performance in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure 30-Day Mortality and Readmission" (2009)
"Availability of Data to Measure Disparities in Leading Health Indicators at the State and Local Levels" (November 2008)

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Delivery System Organization and Management

Projects:

Evaluation of the Business Case for Quality: Phase II
Medical Home Demonstration Design Contract
Evaluation of Programs of Coordinated Care and Disease Management

Publications:

"Prospects for Rebuilding Primary Care Using the Patient-Centered Medical Home" (May 2010)
"Quality's New Frontier: Reducing Hospitalizations and Improving Transitions in Long-Term Care" (March 2010)
"The Business Case for Accurate Data on Quality and Savings in Medical Home Programs" (March 2010)
“Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research” (2009)
"Practical Lessons for Health Reform from the Military Health System"(November 2009)
"Enhanced Primary Care Case Management Programs in Medicaid: Issues and Options for States" (September 2009)
"The Promise of Care Coordination: Models That Decrease Hospitalizations and Improve Outcomes for Beneficiaries with Chronic Illnesses" (August 2009)
"Maximizing the Value of Philanthropic Efforts Through Planned Partnerships Between the U.S. Government and Private Foundations" (May 2009)
"The National Health Plan Collaborative: Overview of Its Origins, Accomplishments, and Lessons Learned" (April 2009)
"Effective Care Coordination: The Hard Evidence from the Field" (April 2009)
"Promising Results from the Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network Analysis" (March 2009)
"The Promise of Care Coordination: Models that Decrease Hospitalizations and Improve Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries with Chronic Illnesses" (March 2009)
"Using Payment Incentives to Improve Care for the Chronically Ill in Medicare: First Year Implementation of the Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration (MCMP)" (March 2009)
"Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials" (February 2009)
"Differences in Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions Among Maryland Medicare Beneficiaries 2006” (December 2008)
"Qualifying a Physician Practice as a Medical Home" (December 2008)
"Medicare's Private Plans: A Report Card on Medicare Advantage" (November 2008)

Consumer Engagement

Projects:

Patient Experiences with Health Care in the District of Columbia
Analysis of Overuse of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
Partnering with External Quality Review Organizations to Enhance Preventive and Developmental Services for Low-Income Children, Phase 2

Publications:

"A Review of Prenatal Home-Visiting Effectiveness for Improving Birth Outcomes" (February 2011)
"Engaging Patients and Families in the Medical Home" (June 2010)
"Building Advocacy Capacity: Where Grantees Started" (September 2009)
"Treatment Approach and HbA1c Control Among US Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: NHANES 1999-2004" (July 2009)
"Emerging National and State Activities on Language Services in Health Care" (June 2009)
"Leadership Team Member Organizations and Coalition Structures" (June 2009)
"Improving Access to Language Services in Health Care: A Look at National and State Efforts" (April 2009)
"Focus on Quality: Communication in the Health Care Encounter" (February 2009)
"Results from the Administration on Aging's 2005/2006 Survey of Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs)" (January 2009)
"Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials” (Winter 2009)
"Matching Patients to Medical Homes: Ensuring Patient and Physician Choice" (December 2008)
"Summary of Focus Group Sessions at the 2008 Annual Grantee Meeting" (October 2008)

Health IT for Quality

Projects:

Health IT (NRC)
Evaluation of the Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration
Evaluation of Medicare Personal Health Records Choice Pilot
Evaluation of National Resource Center for Health Information Technology (NRC)

Publications:

"Toward Understanding EHR Use in Small Physician Practices" (fall 2009)
"Costs to Medicare of the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) Home Telemedicine Demonstration: Findings from an Independent Evaluation" (July 2009)
"Health Information Exchange: The Role of Safety-Net Providers" (June 2009)
"Implementing Telemedicine Services for Low-Income Seniors: Potential Strategies" (2008)

Vulnerable Populations

Projects:

National Evaluation of Project Access: Improving Care for Children and Youth with Epilepsy
Assessing Cultural Perspectives on the Quality of Care
Performance Monitoring for Voluntary Medicare Health Support Under Fee-for-Service Medicare
Phase II: An Evaluation of the National Health Plan Collaborative Process and Effectiveness in Reducing Healthcare Disparities Among Minority Populations
Assessment of Current Technical Assistance Infrastructure in Relation to the Evolving Regional Quality Strategy of the Quality/Equality Team
Controlling Cost and Improving Care for New York State’s Medicare and Medicaid Dual Eligibles

Publications:

"Improving Care for Dual Eligibles: Opportunities for Medicare Managed Care Plans" (July 2011)
"Detroit: Motor City to Medical Mecca?" (August 2010)
"Differences in Prevalence, Treatment, and Outcomes of Asthma Among a Diverse Population of Children with Equal Access to Care" (August 2010)
"Strategies for Engaging and Retaining Latinos in HIV Care" (August 2010)
"Costs and Benefits of Providing In-Person Professional Medical Interpreters in the Emergency Department: Results of a Randomized Controlled Study" (June 2010)
"Use of Hospital Emergency Services by Youths in Out-of-Home Care" (March 2010)
"Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Access to Care and Quality of Care for U.S. Health Center Patients Compared with Non-Health Center Patients" (October/December 2009)
"Antidepressant Use in a Nationally Representative Sample of Community-Dwelling US Latinos With and Without Depressive and Anxiety Disorders" (July 2009)
"Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in TRICARE" (July 2009)
"Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Partnerships Between Employers and Health Plans" (July 2009)
"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Children's Health Care in the Military Health System" (June 2009)
"Income and Poverty in 2002: The View from Five Surveys" (June 2009)
"Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in TRICARE" (June 2009)
"Intimate Partner Violence, Health Status, and Health Care Access Among Women with Disabilities" (March-April 2009)
"Antidepressant Use in Black and White Populations in the United States" (October 2008