Developing New Measures of the Quality of Well-Child Care, Phase 2
Award Amount:
$294,690
Approval Date:
November 11, 2008
Start Date:
January 1, 2009
End Date:
December 31, 2009
National Committee for Quality Assurance
1100 13th Street NW, Suite 1000
Washington, Dist. of Columbia 20005
Principal Investigator:
Sarah Hudson Scholle, M.P.H., Dr.P.H.
The ability to measure the quality of well-child care is essential to the successful implementation of quality improvement initiatives for children. Continuing the work begun in this project's first phase, researchers at the National Committee for Quality Assurance will refine the comprehensive set of pediatric preventive care measures they developed and test the measures with health plans and physician practices. In addition, the team will produce a report outlining data collection strategies and scoring methods, which will guide performance evaluation of plans and individual providers.