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DataBases

• National Cancer Institute (NCI) Dictionaries
   

Quality and Standards Developers

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. As one of 12 agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, AHRQ supports health services research that will improve the quality of health care and promote evidence-based decision making
• American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• American Academy of Ophthalmology (AA0)
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
• American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Members of AACE are physicians with special education, training, and interest in the practice of clinical endocrinology.  These physicians devote a significant part of their career to the evaluation and management of patients with endocrine disease.  All members of AACE are physicians (M.D. or D.O.) and a majority is certified by Boards recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties.  Members of AACE are recognized clinicians, educators and scientists, many of whom are affiliated with medical schools and universities.  Members of AACE contribute on a regular and continuing basis to the scientific literature on endocrine diseases and conduct medical education programs on this subject
• American Association of Health Plans 
• American Accreditation Healthcare Commission/URAC URAC is independent, nonprofit organization committed to promoting health care quality through accreditation, certification and other quality improvement activities. Their Web site provides information about accreditation, education and programs and services.
• American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physician Established in 1977, the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) has evolved to become the nation's largest organization of interdisciplinary healthcare professionals. ABQAURP remains at the forefront of Health Care Quality Management (HCQM), a field so vital to all medical specialties and health care professions. Through its ultimate goal to improve the quality of our Nation's health care, ABQAURP is dedicated to providing health care education and certification for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals
• American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
• American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association
• American College of Rheumatology (ACRheum) The ACR is an organization of and for physicians, health professionals, and scientists that advances rheumatology through programs of education, research, advocacy and practice support that foster excellence in the care of people with or at risk for arthritis and rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases
• American Gastroentrological Association Institute (AGAI) The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) is dedicated to the mission of advancing the science and practice of gastroenterology. Founded in 1897, the AGA is the oldest medical-specialty society in the United States. Comprised of two non-profit organizations — the AGA and the AGA Institute — our 15,500 members include physicians and scientists who research, diagnose and treat disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and liver.
• American Geriatrics Society (AGS) The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is a not-for-profit organization of over 6,700 health professionals devoted to improving the health, independence and quality of life of all older people. The Society provides leadership to healthcare professionals, policy makers and the public by implementing and advocating for programs in patient care, research, professional and public education, and public policy.

• American Health Quality Association The American Health Quality Association represents Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) and professionals working to improve the quality of health care in communities across America. QIOs share information about best practices with physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, and others. Working together with health care providers, QIOs identify opportunities and provide assistance for improvement.

• Association for Health Services Research 

• American Medical Association Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (AMA/PCPI)

• The American Medical Association (AMA)-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® (Consortium) is committed to enhancing quality of care and patient safety by taking the lead in the development, testing, and maintenance of evidence-based clinical performance measures and measurement resources for physicians.

• Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology APIC’s mission is to improve health and patient safety by reducing risks of infection and other adverse outcomes.  The Association’s more than 11,000 members have primary responsibility for infection prevention, control and hospital epidemiology in health care settings around the globe, and include nurses, epidemiologists, physicians, microbiologists, clinical pathologists, laboratory technologists and public health practitioners .  APIC advances its mission through education, research, collaboration, public policy, practice guidance and credentialing.

• California Nursing Outcomes Coalition Database Project (CalNOC)

• Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, Oregon Health & Science University (CAHMI)

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

• CMS-SCRIPT The SCRIPT measures were developed by the Coalition for Quality in Medication Use, funded by CMS, and are in the public domain. The project has concluded, and the coalition is no longer available to maintain the measures; however, NCQA has indicated that it will maintain them.

• Foundation for Accountability (FAACT) FACCT (Foundation For Accountability), was a national non-profit organization that closed its operations in 2004, after nine years of advocacy for an accountable heath care system in which consumers are partners who help shape the delivery of care.

• Healthcare Financial Management Association 

• Health Insurance Association of America. The Foundation for Accountability -- is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping Americans make better health care decisions. FACCT's board of trustees is made up of consumer organizations and purchasers of health care services and insurance representing 80 million Americans. Health Insurance Association of America 

• HealthGrades

• HealthGrades (Nasdaq:HGRD) is the leading healthcare ratings organization, providing ratings and profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians to consumers, corporations, health plans and hospitals. Millions of consumers and hundreds of the nation's largest employers, health plans and hospitals rely on HealthGrades' independent ratings, consulting and products to make healthcare decisions based on the quality of care. Founded in 1999, the firm is headquartered in Golden, Colorado

• HEDIS & Quality Measurement

• HealthPartners

• Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)  The mission of our collaboration is to champion the cause of health care quality and to accelerate improvement in the value of the health care we deliver to the populations we serve

• IHI.org Institution for Healthcare Improvement The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a not-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world. IHI was founded in 1991 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. IHI's work is funded primarily through our own fee-based program offerings and services, and also through the generous support of a distinguished group of foundations, companies, and individuals

• Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative The primary goal of the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) is to generate, disseminate and translate research to understand how nurses contribute to and can improve the quality of patient care.

• International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua). ISQua, The International Society for Quality in Health Care, is a non-profit, independent organization with members in over 70 countries. ISQua works to provide services to guide health professionals, providers, researchers, agencies, policy makers and consumers, to achieve excellence in healthcare delivery to all people, and to continuously improve the quality and safety of care

• IPRO  IPRO is an independent, not-for-profit corporation committed to assessing and improving the value of health care services received by consumers through the use of innovative methods and technologies.

• Joint Commission  (JCAHO) The Joint Commission is the premier health care accreditation organization in the U.S. Information about their accreditation process can be found here.
• Joint Commission (ORYX) Introduced in February 1997, The Joint Commission’s ORYX initiative integrates outcomes and other performance measurement data into the accreditation process. ORYX measurement requirements are intended to support Joint Commission accredited organizations in their quality improvement efforts. A component of the ORYX initiative is the identification and use of standardized—or “core”—performance measures. The Joint Commission’s principal intent is to identify, rather than develop, sound measures that support both the objectives of the ORYX initiative and organizational process improvement. On July 1, 2002, accredited hospitals began collecting data on core performance measures.
• Leapfrog Group  The Leapfrog Group is a voluntary program aimed at mobilizing employer purchasing power to alert America’s health industry that big leaps in health care safety, quality and customer value will be recognized and rewarded. Among other initiatives, Leapfrog works with its employer members to encourage transparency and easy access to health care information as well as rewards for hospitals that have a proven record of high quality care.
• Markle Foundation Emerging information and communication technologies possess enormous potential to improve people's lives. The Markle Foundation works to realize this potential by accelerating the use of these technologies to address critical public needs, particularly in the areas of health and national security.
• Managed Care Group: Performance Measurement

• Managed Care Magazine 

• National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) NAHQ empowers healthcare quality professionals from every specialty by providing vital research, education, networking, certification and professional practice resources, and a strong voice for healthcare quality
• National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. Since its founding in 1990, NCQA has been a central figure in driving improvement throughout the health care system, helping to elevate the issue of health care quality to the top of the national agenda. Annual reports on the state of managed care and individual health plan report cards are important information resources for hospital trustees, and can be found on this well-respected site.
• National Committee for Quality Assurance - Measuring Quality
• National Committee for Quality Assurance and Washington Circle There is a clear need to promote quality and accountability in the delivery and management of alcohol and other drug (AOD) services by organized systems of care, both public and private.  The WC believes that this is best accomplished through adopting a process of care model and defining a set of measures for each domain within that model.  Moreover, the WC believes that accountability for AOD services is best achieved when system performance is compared across all domains of the process of care.  The WC is committed to developing evidence-based measures that allow for such comparison
• National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®) is a proprietary database of the American Nurses Association. The database collects and evaluates unit-specific nurse-sensitive data from hospitals in the United States
• National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance (Allliance)
• National  Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC). A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]).
• National Quality Measure Clearinghouse (NQMC)  The National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC), sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a database and Web site for information on specific evidence-based health care quality measures and measure sets. NQMC is sponsored by AHRQ to promote widespread access to quality measures by the health care community and other interested individuals
• National Quality Forum - The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting. This site includes quality-related articles and resources, as well as information about NQF’s efforts to promote a common approach to measuring health care quality and fostering system-wide capacity for quality improvement.
• National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) is an action-oriented organization dedicated solely to improving the quality of health care provided to children. Founded in 1999, NICHQ's mission is to eliminate the gap between what is and what can be in health care for all children. A national organization with its home office in Cambridge, NICHQ also works with staff and faculty across the country.

• National Quality Measures Clearinghouse

• The National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC), sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a database and Web site for information on specific evidence-based health care quality measures and measure sets. NQMC is sponsored by AHRQ to promote widespread access to quality measures by the health care community and other interested individuals.

   

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  Quality Net  Established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), QualityNet provides healthcare quality improvement news, resources and data reporting tools and applications used by healthcare providers and others

   

  Resolution Health, Inc (RHI) Resolution Health is a health care data Analysis and intervention company whose services have been proven to: (1) reduce medical costs, (2) improve the quality, coordination and (3) Enhance communications between patients and their physicians

   

  Robert Woods Johnson Foundation RWJF focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. The Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change

  Top Hospitals By combining publicly available data sets and our empirical, time-tested methodologies, the 100 Top Hospitals® program objectively identifies the highest performers in the nation. By highlighting what these leaders do best, we have raised the bar for hospital performance each year

• University Research Co. Center for Human Services Links to Quality Assurance Improvement Web Resources

Evidence-based medicine online resource

• CLINICAL EVIDENCE ONLINE. Identifies important clinical questions and seeks the answers instead of finding and presenting only the evidence-based data

• COCHRANE LIBRARY

• OVID TECHNOLOGIES INC.'S EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE REVIEWS. Aggregates three searchable databases -- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness from the Cochrane Library, and Best Evidence from ACP-ASIM and the BMJ Publishing Group. Available only through medical institutions 

Laboratory

• CMS. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulates all laboratory testing (except research) performed on humans in the U.S. through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). In total, CLIA covers approximately 200,000 laboratory entities. The Division of Laboratory Services, within the Survey and Certification Group, under the Center for Medicaid and State Operations (CMSO) has the responsibility for implementing the CLIA Program

Papers:

• Doing What Counts for Patient Safety: Federal Actions to Reduce Medical Errors and Their Impact, A report of the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC) to the President, February 2000.  The book includes an introduction and four chapters: Chapter 1) Understanding Medical Errors; Chapter 2) Federal Response to the IOM Report; Chapter 3) Beyond the IOM Report: Identifying and Implementing Additional Strategies; and Chapter 4) Working With the Private Sector and State Governments.
• Managed Care Group: Performance Measurements This is the tenth article in the Medical Management "Signature Series" by Managed Care Resources, Inc. -- articles on topics in managed care written by experts in the field. The author of this article is Roberta L. Carefoote.

Journals

• International Journal for Quality in Health Care

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