IDSRN Project Awards

Field Partnerships to Conduct and Use Research

Awards in Fiscal Year 2000

Developing Data and Measurement Capacity
Structuring Health Care Delivery
Health Care for Minority Populations, Women, and Children

Developing Data and Measurement Capacity

Capacity to Conduct Studies on the Impact of Racial/ethnic Disparities in Access, Use, and Outcomes
Partner: Emory Center on Health Outcomes and Quality
Description: Emory examined Aetna's capacity to study racial/ethnic disparities using Aetna databases. Efforts were made to identify potential strategies for improving such capacity, such as seeking information on race/ethnicity from large employers or directly from patients by survey.
Period: 9/00-6/01
Funding: $171,170

Private Sector Data and Measures for the National Quality Report
Partner: Center for Health Care Policy and Evaluation (CHCPE)
Description: CHCPE evaluated the feasibility of using data from private health care organizations in developing AHRQ's annual National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR). Although the first NHQR did not include private sector data, the second report should include the results of this study. The annual NHQR provides a comprehensive picture of the quality of the Nation's health care systems.
Period: 9/00-9/02
Funding: $399,884

Using AHRQ's Quality Indicators
Partner: Research Triangle Institute
Description: RTI examined data and measurement issues and applications of how the prevention and inpatient quality indicators can be used by hospitals and community health care systems in quality measurement and self-assessment efforts.
Period: 9/00-05/03
Funding: $449,007

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Structuring Health Care Delivery

Quality-related Provisions in Health Plan-Hospital Contracts
Partner: Marshfield Medical Research and Education Foundation
Description: Marshfield and Project HOPE conducted a systematic review of 100 health plan contracts with providers to identify how different kinds of health plans (e.g., Health Maintenance Organizations [HMOs] and Preferred Provider Organizations [PPOs]) were operationalizing quality provisions in their provider contracts.
Period: 9/00-6/01
Funding: $98,998

Integrated Delivery Systems and Clinical Preparedness for Bioterrorist Events
Partner: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Description: This project assessed a health system's existing capability of responding to and managing a public health threat. The investigators modeled a hypothetical release of anthrax in New York City, producing the first scalable computer models of civilian medical response to bioterrorism. The model includes an outpatient prophylaxis component and a hospital surge capacity component. An important modeling goal was to pinpoint the limits of system capacity in response to a hypothetical bioterrorist mass casualty event.
Period: 9/00-9/01
Funding: $249,973

Assessing the Information Technology Infrastructures within Integrated Delivery Systems
Partner: Research Triangle Institute
Description: RTI designed this project to increase understanding of factors that facilitate or undermine the diffusion of information technology within integrated delivery systems. The study identified strategies that can be tailored to overcome barriers to diffusion.
Period: 9/00-3/02
Funding: $200,000

Assessing the Impact of Organizational Interventions
Partner: Marshfield Medical Research and Education Foundation
Description: Marshfield evaluated the benefits of several organizational interventions, including the redesign of a charity care program and centralization of a clinic's medical management of anticoagulant therapy.
Period: 9/00-5/02
Funding: $199,942

Value-based Contracting: Understanding What's Behind the Hospital Volume-outcome Link
Partner: Center for Health Care Policy and Evaluation (CHCPE)
Description: CHCPE conducted exploratory research to identify specific processes of care, related or unrelated to volume, which may explain variations in outcomes of certain complex procedures.
Period: 9/00-10/02
Funding: $249,973

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Health Care for Minority Populations, Women, and Children

Socioeconomic, Racial/ethnic and Gender Differences in Quality and Outcomes of Care as Related to Cardiovascular Disease
Partner: Center for Health Care Policy and Evaluation (CHCPE)
Description: CHCPE and RAND assessed disparities in health care quality for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, a cardiac risk factor, using claims and enrollment data from commercial and Medicare plans affiliated with UnitedHealthcare, and HEDIS and non-HEDIS quality measures. Variations were determined for socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity and patient gender in the management of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors within and across different settings and models of care.
Period: 9/00-4/02
Funding: $199,705

Implementation of Otitis Media Practice Guidelines, Developed on the Basis of AHRQ-supported Evidence Reports, in a Pediatric Population
Partner: HMO Research Network
Description: Lovelace Clinic Foundation in Albuquerque, NM, evaluated the implementation of a clinical practice guideline for otitis media with children treated within an integrated delivery system. The study compared health care provided to Hispanic and non-Hispanic enrollees and Medicaid and non-Medicaid enrollees.
Period: 9/00-10/02
Funding: $195,998

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Current as of February 2005

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Internet Citation:

IDSRN Project Awards: Field Partnerships to Conduct and Use Research: Awards in Fiscal Year 2000. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/idsrnproj00.htm

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