The Quality Measurement, Evaluation, Testing, Review and Implementation Consortiu

描述（由申请人提供）： 在美国，提高向所有儿童提供的护理质量的目标是国家优先事项。虽然为解决这一问题作出了初步的尝试，但在制定质量定义的方法和努力将现有的质量措施付诸实践方面，仍有许多工作要做。为了响应对合作研究示范和传播项目提案的呼吁，我们提出了一个结构化但灵活的能力和研究计划，质量测量，评估，测试，审查和实施联盟（Q-METRIC）。拟议的方案将根据卫生保健质量和研究机构（AHRQ）的指导，对质量措施的开发、评估、改进和测试进行研究。这些研究将侧重于儿童保健的质量措施，包括预防性保健服务、急性病保健、慢性病保健和保健服务，以改善身心状况的影响，并帮助婴儿、幼儿、学龄儿童和青少年，包括有特殊保健需要的儿童的生长和发育。拟议的研究团队拥有丰富的经验、专业知识、数据资源、临床资源、IT基础设施，并能够有效地整合这些资源，在合作协议的框架内发挥作用。家庭和公共团体的投入也包括在研究计划中。拟议的研究联盟（Q-METRIC）将通过在广泛的方法学，分析和测量测试方案中创造协同作用的能力，为质量措施带来显着的创新。一旦AHRQ分配了一项任务，将举行一系列联合体参与者和顾问的深思熟虑和连续会议，以便处理任何可能的请求。最初，联合体委员会会议将确定每个联合体成员完成指定任务的能力和资源。随后将举行一次执行委员会会议，以确定哪些合作体组成部分最适合这项任务的需要。执行委员会随后将指定一个项目工作组，由其完成指定的任务。这些工作组将负责实际执行人权咨委指派的任务，并由具备执行任务所需资源的成员组成。每一个具体项目工作组的组成将根据人力资源咨询委员会分配的每一项任务而有所不同。具体项目工作组将由经验丰富的研究人员领导，他们具有与所分配任务相适应的方法学专业知识。 公共卫生相关性：提高向所有美国儿童提供的护理质量的目标是国家优先事项。拟议的方案将根据卫生保健质量和研究机构（AHRQ）的指导，对质量措施的开发、评估、改进和测试进行研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of improving the quality of care provided to all children in the United States is a national priority. Although nascent attempts have been made to address this issue, much work remains to be done in both developing the means to define quality, and also in efforts to implement into practice those quality measures which do exist. In response to the call for proposals for the Cooperative Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects, we present a structured yet flexible capacity and program of research, the Quality Measurement, Evaluation, Testing, Review and Implementation Consortium (Q-METRIC). The proposed program will conduct studies on the development, assessment, refinement and testing of quality measures as directed by the Agency for HealthCare Quality and Research (AHRQ). These studies will focus on quality measures for children's healthcare, including preventive health services, healthcare for acute conditions, chronic health care and health services to ameliorate the effects of physical and mental conditions and to aid in growth and development of infants, young children, school-age children, and adolescents, including those with special health care needs. The proposed research team has extensive experience, expertise, data resources, clinical resources, IT infrastructure and the ability to marshal those resources effectively and efficiently to function within the framework of a cooperative agreement. Input from families and public groups is also included in the research plan. The proposed research consortium (Q-METRIC) will bring remarkable innovation to the quality measures assigned through the capacity to create synergy across a wide range of methodologic, analytic and measurement testing scenarios. Once a task is assigned by the AHRQ, a series of deliberate and sequential meetings of consortium participants and consultants will take place that will allow for the conduct of any potential request. Initially, a meeting of the Consortium Committee will determine the capacity and resources of each consortium member for the assigned task. This will be followed by a meeting of the Executive Committee which will determine which consortium components best fit the needs of the task. The executive committee will then name the Project-Specific Working Group which will complete the assigned tasks. The working groups will have the responsibility to actually conduct the task assigned by AHRQ and will be comprised of members with the resources available to do so. The composition of each Project-Specific Working Group will be unique for each task assigned by AHRQ. The Project-Specific Working Groups will be led by experienced researchers with methodologic expertise appropriate to the task assigned. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The goal of improving the quality of care provided to all U.S. children is a national priority. The proposed program will conduct studies on the development, assessment, refinement and testing of quality measures as directed by the Agency for HealthCare Quality and Research (AHRQ).