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4 Process for Identifying Priority Areas
4 Process for Identifying Priority Areas
Pages 115-126
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Tile salient studies do not share comment intementions or outcome measures and are often not reported in the pub1:ished~Titera~e. Thus, the committee took~both a quantitative and qualitative approach when assessing the potential for systems change, an(1 employed (1ata as well as the negotiated consensus of the group to decide whether a priority area under consideration met a threshold of confidence for improvability The committee also considered the degree to which effective systems change in one area had the potential to diffuse to other areas in which improvements would: be welcome.
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Apply criteria to screen the carld~d£ltes. Identify priority areas' reassess and Apron Although the process appears to be linear ire fashion, it is much more amp ~an: a succession of orderly steps.
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Marty of the Health Plan Employer Data antl~f~rmation Set (HEDiS~) standardized performance measures currently used by (he National Committee for Quality Assurance (N6Q~ ~n its accreditation process (National Committee for Quality Assurance, 2002)
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that £0Ul] be broadly applied to improve health care quality, especially since it was riot possible to select every cor~ctition worthy of improvement.
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b COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease SOURCES: AHl~Q/MEPS-(~ohen~ 2002; Med~1 Expenditure Panel Survey, 2002) ; VA/QUERI-(Demakls et ale 2000; Feussner et al., 2000;~:Kizer et al., 2000)
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Identify priority areas; reassess and implementing strategies for improving care in approve.
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described in Chapter 2. Identify Priority Areas Categorize Candidate Areas Within the The priority areas on the final list share a Framework common set offeatures.
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Recommendation 4: The committee recommends that AHRQ, in collaboration with other private and public organizations, be responsible for continnous assessment of progress and updating of the list of priority areas. These responsibilhies should include: Developing aloud improving data collection and measurement systems for assessing Ithe effectiveness olf quality implroYement efforts.
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. ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ committee reached consensus :that to achieve I: : : ~ The costs of clevelop~ng and inclusiveness, it would recommend 20 areas, but implementing ciata collection it would select within most of these areas a mechali~sms anti imLplrov~ng the specific focus Mat won be elected to yield capacity to measure results.
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