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

项目总结 提高向美国所有儿童提供的护理质量的目标是国家优先事项。 尽管已经作出了解决这一问题的初步尝试，但在这两个方面仍有许多工作要做 开发定义质量的方法，并努力将这些质量措施付诸实践 它们确实存在。响应合作研究示范和合作研究项目建议书的号召 传播项目，我们提出了有条理但又灵活的研究能力和方案，质量 测量、评估、测试、审查和实施联盟(Q-METRY)。建议数 计划将对质量措施的开发、评估、改进和测试进行研究，如 由医疗保健质量和研究机构(AHRQ)指导。这些研究将集中在质量上。 儿童保健措施，包括预防性保健服务、急性疾病保健、 慢性保健和保健服务，以改善身体和精神状况的影响，并帮助 婴幼儿、学龄儿童和青少年的生长发育，包括 特殊的医疗保健需求。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基础设施以及有效和高效地组织这些资源的能力 在合作协议的框架内运作。来自家庭和公共团体的意见也是 包括在研究计划中。拟议的研究联盟(Q-METRUM)将带来显著的 通过能力分配的质量措施的创新，以在广泛的 方法论、分析和测量测试场景。一旦AHRQ分配了一项任务，一系列 财团参与者和顾问将举行深思熟虑和连续的会议，以便 任何潜在请求的执行。最初，财团委员会的一次会议将决定 每个联合体成员完成所分配任务的能力和资源。这之后将举行一次会议 执行委员会将负责确定哪些财团组成部分最符合任务需要。 然后执行委员会将指定特定于项目的工作组，该工作组将完成分配的 任务。工作组将负责实际执行AHRQ分配的任务，并将 由拥有可用资源的成员组成。每个特定项目的组成 对于AHRQ分配的每项任务，工作组将是唯一的。具体项目工作组将是 由具有适合所分配任务的方法专长的经验丰富的研究人员领导。

PROJECT SUMMARY 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.