New Resource Identifies Care Coordination Measures
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a new resource for researchers interested in measuring care coordination, an emerging field of quality measurement. The Care Coordination Measures Atlas is available online and for download in pdf format. It identifies more than 60 measures for assessing care coordination that include the perspectives of patients and caregivers, health care professionals and health system managers. To help users easily identify measures that are relevant to their work, the measures are mapped to a conceptual framework for understanding care coordination measurement. In addition to researchers, measure developers, Accountable Care Organizations and others responsible for measuring care coordination will find the Atlas useful in identifying currently available measures to assess care coordination activities, as well as gaps in existing measures that can be addressed in future work.
The Atlas is available on the AHRQ Web site. The online version is at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/careatlas/; the downloadable PDF is at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/careatlas/careatlas.pdf [PDF Help].
Care Coordination Measures Atlas
The health care community is struggling to determine how to measure the extent to which care coordination activities are being implemented. AHRQ’s new Care Coordination Measures Atlas lists existing measures of care coordination, with a focus on ambulatory care, and presents a framework for understanding care coordination measurement. The Atlas is useful for evaluators of projects aimed at improving care coordination and for quality improvement practitioners and researchers studying care coordination.
Prepared by: Kathryn M. McDonald, M.M.1; Ellen Schultz, M.S.1; Lauren Albin, B.A.1; Noelle Pineda, B.A.1; Julia Lonhart, B.S., B.A.1; Vandana Sundaram, M.P.H.1, 3; Crystal Smith-Spangler, M.D., M.S.1, 3; Jennifer Brustrom, Ph.D.2, Elizabeth Malcolm, M.D., M.S.H.S.4
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Care Coordination Measures Atlas
miércoles, 9 de marzo de 2011
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