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Assessment of Chronic Illness Care Practice from Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC)
www.improvingchroniccare.org/index.php?
p=ACIC_Survey&s=35

ICIC is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that works in collaboration with organizations and innovators to improve chronic disease health care delivery in the United States. The program supports patients and providers with tools, guidelines, specialty expertise, and information systems.

This practice assessment tool is a web-based survey to help pinpoint areas of strength and weakness in a system interested in improving diabetes care. The user is asked to assess a practice regarding aspects of patient self-management support, clinical information systems, delivery system design, decision support, and community linkages -- and assign a level of achievement. Areas that could benefit from change are readily identified.

The National Guideline Clearinghouse(tm)
www.guidelines.gov

The National Guideline Clearinghouse(tm) (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA) and America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).

The NGC mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use.

Key components of NGC include:

• Structured summaries about the guideline and its development;
• A utility for comparing attributes of two or more guidelines in a side-by-side comparison;
• Syntheses of guidelines covering similar topics, highlighting areas of similarity and difference;
• Links to full-text guidelines, where available, and/or ordering information for print copies;
• An electronic forum, for exchanging information on clinical practice guidelines, their development, implementation and use;
• Annotated bibliographies on guideline development methodology, implementation, and use.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance
hprc.ncqa.org

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is a private, not-for-profit organization that assesses and reports on the quality of managed care plans. NCQA provides information that enables purchasers and consumers of managed health care to distinguish among plans based on quality, and to make more informed health care purchasing decisions. Plans then compete based on quality and value, rather than on price and provider network. NCQA efforts are organized around two activities, accreditation and performance measurement.

The goal of the accreditation program is to conduct an independent, objective review against a set of standards and, based on that review, develop information that is then made publicly available to inform consumers and employers about enrollment or contracting decisions. The accreditation program includes selected performance measures in such key areas as member satisfaction, quality of care, access, and service.

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