New CHIPRA Evaluation Highlight Focuses on Learning Collaboratives

New CHIPRA Evaluation Highlight Focuses on Learning Collaboratives

CHIPRA Evaluation Highlight No. 13 Now Available

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published the thirteenth Evaluation Highlight from the CMS-funded CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program, now available on the national evaluation Web site under What We Learned. This Highlight describes the experiences of nine CHIPRA quality demonstration States that implemented learning collaboratives to advance the quality of children's health care in participating child-serving practices. States and practices found that a combination of strategies were needed to help practices improve medical home capacity and/or performance on clinical quality measures. Those strategies included offering incentives to encourage practice participation in the collaborative, combining classroom and interactive learning to keep practices engaged in the collaborative, and providing individualized practice facilitation and support. 

You may access Evaluation Highlight No. 13, How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children’s health care quality at:

http://www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight13.html or

http://www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight13.pdf

For more information on the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant projects and the CMS-funded national evaluation, visit: http://www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/index.html.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program, please contact the national evaluation team by sending an email to: CHIPRADemoEval@ahrq.hhs.gov.