Topic last updated Jan. 2006
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Toolbox
Assessing
Need for Quality Improvement and Setting Priorities
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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:
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Structured summaries about the guideline and its development;
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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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