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Joint
Comments to AHRQ on the Preliminary Measure Set for the National
Healthcare Disparities Report — Dec. 13, 2002
The American
Health Quality Association and the Center for Healthcare Quality (CHQ),
CMS' Quality Improvement Organization Support Contractor for Underserved
Populations commend the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for
defining a robust set of measures to monitor health care disparities
in terms of access to care, utilization of services, cost of services,
and quality. More...
Comments
to the American Medical Association on the Quality Improvement Projects
and Human Subjects Research Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs
— Oct. 21, 2002
The American
Health Quality Association offers our compliments to the members of
the CSA and the staff who drafted this document. Our membership has
reviewed the document and we believe it frames the issues very well.
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Comments
to AHRQ on the Preliminary Measure Set for the National Healthcare
Quality Report — Sept. 18, 2002
The American
Health Quality Association commends the Agency for Healthcare Policy
and Research (AHRQ) for selecting valid and appropriate quality indicators
used by the QIOs in the Medicare Health Care Quality Improvement Program.
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Comments
to the National Quality Forum on the Finalization of Nursing Home Measures
— July 15, 2002
The American
Health Quality Association supports the efforts of the NQF and its work
related to the development of Nursing Home Measures. However, we are
not supporting every measure contained in the NQF ballot, "Nursing
Home Performance Measures". More...
Comments
to HHS on Proposed Revisions to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active
Labor Act Regulatory Framework — July 3, 2002
AHQA
Comments: The original intention of the EMTALA law (passed by Congress
in 1985) is becoming lost in present day enforcement of the law. The
primary legislative intent of EMTALA was simple: ensure that patients
who require emergent medical treatment receive it regardless of their
ability to pay. Seventeen years later, physicians and hospitals are
drowning in a sea of unintended consequences resulting from the EMTALA
law. More...
Comments
to the National Quality Forum on Nursing Home Performance Measures —
May 14, 2002
AHQA
Comments: NQF, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),
and private foundations should invest in identifying clinical areas
where the science is sufficient to support a second generation of quality
indicators that will focus in on specific clinical processes requiring
scrutiny and improvement. The objective of such a project should be
to produce clinical process indicators at least as sound as those successfully
being used by QIOs to evaluate inpatient hospital care today. More…
AHQA
Comments to CMS on Evaluation Recommendations for SOW7,
February 11, 2002
SOP
Nursing Home Survey Recommended to CMS by AHQA, February 11, 2002
Comments
to HHS on Proposed Changes to External Quality Review Organization (EQRO)
Protocols — January 22, 2002
AHQA
Comments: AHQA is concerned that the protocols lack an evidence-based
approach to quality improvement. As CMS develops its final notice regarding
this collection request, we would ask that you provide clarification
regarding the collection and validation of performance measures. AHQA
recommends that CMS take steps to ensure that EQROs use only evidence
based performance measures. More…
AHQA
Comments to CMS on EQRO Protocols, January 22, 2002
Comments
Submitted to the National Quality Forum on QIO Activities,
January 22, 2002
Comments
to the National Quality Forum on QIO Activities —
January 17, 2002
AHQA
Comments: We view it as a shortcoming of the (NQF) report that it
takes no notice of the national Medicare health care quality improvement
program (HCQIP) continuously operated by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS, formerly HCFA) and the QIOs since 1994. This
state of the art program is already implementing most of the recommendations,
including those pertaining to reliance on national goals, careful development
of quality measures, and communication and education of providers, practitioners,
and consumers. More…
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