What's New | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

What's New | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

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What's New?
The fifth in a series of Evaluation Highlights is now available. Learn how demonstration States are encouraging providers to utilize measures to drive quality improvement.

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What's New

This page houses the recent findings and resources from both the national evaluation team and the State-based evaluation teams. It also will include slide decks from recent presentations at conferences, issue briefs, journal articles, replication guides, and other materials.

Evaluation Highlights

The national evaluation team is producing a series of issue briefs that frame the most pertinent evaluation findings for a variety of audiences concerned with children's health care quality. These 4-6 page briefs, entitled Evaluation Highlights, will include both descriptive and analytic findings depending on the topic and time period of the demonstration, and will be posted to this page as they become available.

Evaluation Highlight No. 5: How are the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States encouraging health care providers to put quality measures to work?

October 2013
This Evaluation Highlight is the fifth in a series that presents interim findings from the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) Quality Demonstration Program. The Highlight compares and contrasts two projects that use quality measures to drive quality improvement. It features a pay-for-performance program in Pennsylvania that encourages health systems to support quality improvement using electronic health records (EHRs) and a State-led learning collaborative in South Carolina that supports primary care practices to become more focused on data-driven quality improvement. Our analysis covers the first 2 to 3 years of these 5-year demonstration projects, including a year of planning and 1 to 2 years of implementation.

• Evaluation Highlight No. 5: How are the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States encouraging health care providers to put quality measures to work? October 2013, available as a a [  PDF version - 655.33 KB ] or HTML text.

Please note: This Web site uses the term "national evaluation" to distinguish this evaluation of the entire demonstration program from evaluations commissioned or undertaken by grantees. The word "national" should not be interpreted to mean that findings are representative of the United States as a whole.

Current as of November 2013

Internet Citation: What's New. November 2013. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/whatsnew.html