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Evaluation and Quality Improvement

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• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  DHHS research agency provides evidence-based information on health care outcomes; quality; and cost, use, and access.
  • HIV and AIDS Costs and Use Division
    Includes reports and HIVnet, a tool that provides information on inpatient and outpatient utilization by persons with HIV disease.
• CDC Evaluation Working Group
  Program dedicated to supporting evaluation in public health. Web site includes their core product, a Framework for Program Evaluation , as well as an extensive collection of evaluation-related links, including standards, organizations, publications, manuals, reports in its Resources section .
• HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau Special Initiatives: Quality of Care
  Grantee training and CQI program to meet goal of "100% access, 0% disparity" to high quality health care.
• HRSA Health Disparities Collaborative
  Cross-agency collaborative effort to address and eliminate health disparities in the United States. Partners include Federal agencies and community-based networks.
• HIV Guidelines.org
  Collaborative effort of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. Web site's mission is to provide ambulatory care clinicians and administrators as well as policy makers with the necessary information and tools to deliver the highest quality HIV clinical care.
  • New York State HIV Quality of Care Program
    Multifaceted initiative to improve health care quality in NY state.
• Improving Chronic Illness Care
  National program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based at the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, within Group Health Cooperative of Seattle.
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  (IHI) Not-for-profit organization created to help lead the improvement of health care systems, to increase continuously their quality and value. Provides training programs, resources.
  • A Model for Accelerating Improvement
    [PDF, 198K]
  • HIV/AIDS Portal
    Managed in conjunction with the National Quality Center.
• Institute of Medicine
  National Academy of Sciences. The IOM's mission is to advance and disseminate scientific knowledge to improve human health. It provides objective, timely, authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy to government, the corporate sector, the professions and the public. Site includes the publication Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (2002), and Measuring What Matters: Allocation, Planning, and Quality Assessment for the Ryan White CARE Act (2004).
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
  The JCAHO evaluates and accredits more than 17,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. An independent, not-for-profit organization, JCAHO is the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.
• The Measurement Group
  Consulting firm specializing in the evaluation of healthcare and social programs, applied research, data mining, and the development of methods and data collection methods to measure program success. Projects include HRSA-funded Knowledge Base on HIV/AIDS Care
• National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ)
  Professional organization dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare and to supporting the development of professionals in healthcare quality.
• National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
  National association dedicated to improving healthcare quality.
• Synergy Project APDIME Toolkit
  Developed to help public health specialists and program managers improve the assessment, planning, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of HIV/AIDS interventions.

HIV Prevention Program Evaluation

• CDC Program Evaluation Research Branch
  CDC National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention. Branch includes behavioral, health, and social scientists; communicators; statisticians; and public health specialists dedicated to the evaluation, understanding, and improvement of HIV prevention in the United States
• Center for Applied Behavioral and Evaluation Research
  (CABER) Part of the Academy for Educational Development (AED), CABER specializes in applying the theories and methods of the behavioral and social sciences to the design and evaluation of effective programs, services, and policies.
• Sociometrics Corporation
  A for-profit research and development firm specializing in social science research applications. Offers evaluation workshops and training services, technical publications, evaluation tools, and data sets designed to assist practitioners, administrators, evaluators, and funders of social interventions, including HIV/AIDS and STD prevention programs, to design and implement successful evaluation systems.
• Statewide Community HIV Evaluation Project
  (SCHEP) Description of an innovative prevention research project designed to foster collaborative program evaluation projects between local scientific researchers and AIDS service providers. UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, California State Office of AIDS.
• Synergy Project APDIME Toolkit
  Developed to help public health specialists and program managers improve the assessment, planning, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of HIV/AIDS interventions.