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SAGE-KIDS: MEASURING QUALITY OF PEDIATRIC CARE

Award Number: R44HD049937
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 03/01/2005
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 12/31/2012

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SAGE-KIDS: MEASURING QUALITY OF PEDIATRIC CARE - DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): It has been become commonplace in the last few years for health plans to determine the quality of care provided by their physicians by evaluating the contents of electronic claims data records. Physician-ordered services contained in the records are compared with those recommended in established guidelines of care for particular ailments, and physicians are informed of their compliance with these guidelines in an effort to improve treatment practices. This approach has proved itself very successful in the adult health arena, with a variety of organizations constructing sets of "indicators" or "measures" to rate care quality. Each measure is essentially a set of standards that apply a specific ailment, and can be implemented in software to evaluate the total number of case of the ailment and its compliance rate. But such an approach has not yet gained widespread use in the pediatric community. This is largely due to the lack of available measure sets specific to the conditions of children and adolescents. To help rectify this situation a set of forty to fifty measures will be developed covering a wide variety of pediatric conditions. An expert panel of pediatric generalists and specialists will be consulted in conjunction with established treatment guidelines to ensure correct and effective measure development. This set will be thoroughly tested on actual claims data to ensure optimal measure performance. The panel will be informed of the results of the testing and the process will be iterated until the set is honed to a level sufficient to provide accurate evaluation of pediatric care quality when using real claims data. Various methods of reporting the results of measure compliance to physicians will next be developed in consultation with industry leaders in health care. Once this is completed the measure set along with the software required to properly operate it will be marketed under software license. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project is relevant to the current public need for improvement in pediatric health care. It is furthermore relevant to the National Institutes of Health's call for closing the gap between research and practice.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2012 ( Subtotal = $59,138 )
2012	2009	PROFSOFT	117 SUTTON ROAD	NEEDHAM	MA	02492	NORFOLK	USA	Population Research	000	3	1/18/2012	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$395,336
2012	2009	Thomson Reuters Healthcare Inc	777 East Eisenhower Parkway	ANN ARBOR	MI	48108	WASHTENAW	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	002	4	5/8/2012	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$0
2012	2009	Thomson Reuters Healthcare Inc	777 East Eisenhower Parkway	Ann Arbor	MI	48108	WASHTENAW	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	4	1/18/2012	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$454,474
														Subtotal = $59,138

Issue Date FY: 2011 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2011	2009	PROFSOFT	117 SUTTON ROAD	NEEDHAM	MA	02492	NORFOLK	USA	Population Research	000	3	1/26/2011	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2009 ( Subtotal = $395,337 )
2009	2009	PROFSOFT	117 SUTTON ROAD	NEEDHAM	MA	02492	NORFOLK	USA	Population Research	000	3	9/14/2009	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$395,337
														Subtotal = $395,337

Issue Date FY: 2008 ( Subtotal = $324,845 )
2008	2008	PROFSOFT	117 SUTTON ROAD	NEEDHAM	MA	02492	NORFOLK	USA	Population Research	000	2	5/27/2008	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$324,845
														Subtotal = $324,845

Grand Total All Awards = $779,320

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SAGE-KIDS: MEASURING QUALITY OF PEDIATRIC CARE

Award Number: R44HD049937

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 03/01/2005

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 12/31/2012

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