Analytic Methodologies

Title:	Measuring Quality Using the CAHPS MFFS Survey
Date:	3/12/2004
Presenter:	Larry Campbell, Shula Bernard, and Arthur Bonito, RTI
Description:	PowerPoint presentation defining the potential use of CAHPS data to monitor consumer and physician behavior in their states. Includes overview of the factors affecting beneficiaries satisfaction with their health plan and the care they receive, focusing on health services utilization, insurance, perceived health and market characteristics; the relationship between clinical measures of quality and CAHPS measures of quality among Medicare beneficiaries is also described.
Keywords:	CAHPS, beneficiaries, clinical measures of quality, health services utilization
Title:	New Frontiers: There is Life Outside of the 7th SOW Adapting AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to QIO Data
Date:	3/12/2004
Presenter:	Charles Schade, WV Medical Institute, Jocelyn Andrel, Quality Insights of Pennsylvania, and Patricia Ruddick, WV Medical Institute
Description:	: PowerPoint presentation assessing whether the AHRQ patient safety indicators can be evaluated from claims data available to QIOs. This presentation develops a simple graphical representation of the patient safety indicator status within a state.
Keywords:	Patient safety, statistical methods, claims analysis
Title:	New Frontiers: There is Life Outside of the 7th SOW Uncharted Territory: Exploring the Content and Characteristics of Medicare ED Claims
Date:	3/12/2004
Presenters:	Neal Traven, Qualis Health
Description:	PowerPoint presentation examining the potential usability of ED claims data for the study of continuity of care, the QIO obtained a sample dataset of outpatient Part A claims.
Keywords:	emergency department, administrative claims data, health policy statistics, demographics

Title:	Improving the Timeliness and Focus of Home Health Technical Assistance
Date:	3/12/2004
Presenters:	John White, DPM, MS, Robert Boudreau , PhD, Carol Roy, RN, Annette Holmes, MSA, CPM, CPHQ, and Terri Lindsey, RNC, BSN, Virginia Health Quality Center
Description:	PowerPoint presentation sharing one QIO’s innovative uses of statewide CASPER OBQI data, linked with ongoing QIO and home health agency activities and interventions data, to: 1) increase the timeliness and improve the focus of agency-specific technical assistance; 2) to support a provider recognition program, and 3) to increase customer satisfaction.
Keywords:	CASPER, OBQI, Home Health, Technical Assistance Model

Title:	Using DDE to Automate Senior Leader Reports Data Compilation and Analysis
Date:	3/12/2004
Presenters:	Dima Turkmani, MPH, CFMC and Steve Rosebrook, KFMC
Description:	PowerPoint presentation introducing a method of automating the process of SLR data import from the many EXCEL files to a SAS dataset where data can be analyzed and summarized accurately and efficiently.
Keywords:	DDE, EXCEL, SAS, Senior Leader Reports, Collaborative

Title:	Producing Data Summary Reports for a Rapid Cycle Surgical Infection Collaborative
Date:	3/12/2004
Presenters:	Joshua Young, Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence
Description:	PowerPoint presentation describing the four-month intensive collaborative, launched by North Carolina in 2003, for hospitals to increase the use of prophylactic antiobotics to reduce surgical infections.
Keywords:	data collection, data reporting, surgical infection prevention, collaborative, rapid cycle
Title:	From Chaos to Clarity: Summarizing Hospital Quality Data
Date:	2/24/2005
Presenter:	Dave Zaun, MS, Stratis Health
Description:	PowerPoint presentation. As QIOs work with hospitals around the country, promoting and encouraging participation in the Hospital Quality Initiative, it can be difficult to get information as hospitals submit quality data to the national warehouse, QIOs track those submissions, and both hospitals and QIOs communicate about them. The stakes are high and there is much information out there, two circumstances which make it that much more difficult to assess the status of individual hospitals and their needs. This presentation will describe the process one QIO led to design a means by which to assess status on an individual level. Analytic and program staff worked together to create an individualized “snapshot” of information for each hospital in the state that summarizes rates for all quality indicators; that indicates participation in NVHRI and/or RHQDAPU; and that provides contact information – all on one page. The team used SAS to create reports in Excel, save them, and print them to distribute to hospitals for their reference. The program works to produce the snapshots for each hospital in the state with a single keystroke.
Keywords:	Subtask 2b; Hospitals; RHQDAPU; NVHRI; Hospital quality data
Title:	Predictors of Success in Achieving Statistically Significant Improvement for a Targeted OBQI Outcome
Date:	2/24/2005
Presenters:	Mary Ralston and Bonnie Noble , Lumetra
Description:	PowerPoint Presentation. This talk develops and evaluates a scale for assessing the theoretical difficulty of achieving statistical significance for a particular outcome and evaluates types of QIO technical support for effectiveness after adjustment for technical difficulty of the POA and characteristics of the HHA.
Keywords:	OBQI, POA, HHA