Ryan White 2012 Grantee Meeting

This session provides a basic foundation in developing a system to measure the quality of HIV care and services and using performance data for improvement. HAB measures and other measurement resources are shared and participants learn about effective data collection strategies. Grantees will present successful data collection efforts, and methods for measuring the quality of HIV care and for applying data results to initiate quality improvement activities. Participants will work on selecting and prioritizing performance measures for their quality management plan at their agency.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will understand the balance of performance measurement and quality improvement activities and be able to identify and implement key performance measurement steps and link them to quality improvement activities.
• At the end of this session, participants will understand the purpose, definitions, and expectations of the quality measures released by HAB as well as other measures for use.
• At the end of this session, participants will know how to access existing resources on performance measurement including examples of clinical and non-clinical measures, the HAB HIV Performance Measure Module, the CAREWare Performance Module, eHIVQUAL for data collection, and national benchmarking, and other performance measure resources.