Inventory of the Department of Health and Human Services Performance Measures.Phase 2 Data Collection/Testing and Analysis

摘要

The Performance Measure Workgroup (PMW) was formed as a subgroup of the Forum theManaged Care Forum in the Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS) to assist with the preparation of an inventory of health care performance measures. This is the final report for Phase II of the three-phase inventory project. Through a pre-test, the report provides the experience necessary to finalized the data collection instruments, software and other materials in preparation for the collection of a full inventory of performance measure in fiscal year 1998. Three agencies participated in the pre-test, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), and the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA). With the development of Phase III in mind, the report recommends that: (1) data collection forms and instructions used during Phase II should be reviewed with the objective of eliminating or simplifying data elements and response categories; (2) agency staff charged with completing forms or using software packages to enter their performance measures receive more thorough training.