Notice2024-00617
Supplemental Evidence and Data Request on Updating the Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR)
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Published
January 16, 2024
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Health and Human Services DepartmentAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Abstract
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking scientific information submissions from the public. Scientific information is being solicited to inform our review on Updating the Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR), which is currently being conducted by the AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) Program. Access to published and unpublished pertinent scientific information will improve the quality of this review.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2611-2612]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00617]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Supplemental Evidence and Data Request on Updating the
Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and
Disparities Report (NHQDR)
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), HHS. ACTION:
Request for Supplemental Evidence and Data Submission.
SUMMARY: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is
seeking scientific information submissions from the public. Scientific
information is being solicited to inform our review on Updating the
Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and
Disparities Report (NHQDR), which is currently being conducted by the
AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) Program. Access to
published and unpublished pertinent scientific information will improve
the quality of this review.
DATES: Submission Deadline on or before February 15, 2024.
ADDRESSES:
Email submissions: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e88d988ba889809a99c680809bc68f879e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1174617251707963603f7979623f767e67">[email protected]</span></a>.
Print submissions:
Mailing Address: Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, ATTN: EPC SEADs
Coordinator, 5600 Fishers Lane, Mail Stop 06E53A, Rockville, MD 20857.
Shipping Address (FedEx, UPS, etc.): Center for Evidence and
Practice Improvement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, ATTN:
EPC SEADs Coordinator, 5600 Fishers Lane, Mail Stop 06E77D, Rockville,
MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kelly Carper, Telephone: 301-427-1656
or Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#badfcad9fadbd2c8cb94d2d2c994ddd5cc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5a3f2a391a3b32282b74323229743d352c">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality has commissioned the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC)
Program to complete a review of the evidence for Updating the
Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and
Disparities Report (NHQDR). AHRQ is conducting this review pursuant to
Section 902 of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 299a.
The EPC Program is dedicated to identifying as many studies as
possible that are relevant to the questions for each of its reviews. In
order to do so, we are supplementing the usual manual and electronic
database searches of the literature by requesting information from the
public (e.g., details of studies conducted). We are looking for studies
that report on Updating the Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National
Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR). The entire research
protocol is available online at: <a href="https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/measurement-criteria-qdr/protocol">https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/measurement-criteria-qdr/protocol</a>.
This is to notify the public that the EPC Program would find the
following information on Updating the Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's
National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) helpful:
[ssquf] A list of completed studies that your organization has
sponsored for this topic. In the list, please indicate whether results
are available on <a href="http://ClinicalTrials.gov">ClinicalTrials.gov</a> along with the <a href="http://ClinicalTrials.gov">ClinicalTrials.gov</a>
trial number.
[ssquf] For completed studies that do not have results on
<a href="http://ClinicalTrials.gov">ClinicalTrials.gov</a>, a summary, including the following elements, if
relevant: study number, study period, design, methodology, indication
and diagnosis, proper use instructions, inclusion and exclusion
criteria, primary and secondary outcomes, baseline characteristics,
number of patients screened/eligible/enrolled/lost to follow-up/
withdrawn/analyzed, effectiveness/efficacy, and safety results.
[ssquf] A list of ongoing studies that your organization has
sponsored for this topic. In the list, please provide the
<a href="http://ClinicalTrials.gov">ClinicalTrials.gov</a> trial number or, if the trial is not registered, the
protocol for the study including, if relevant, a study number, the
study period, design, methodology, indication and diagnosis, proper use
instructions, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and primary and
secondary outcomes.
[ssquf] Description of whether the above studies constitute ALL
Phase II and above clinical trials sponsored by your organization for
this topic and an index outlining the relevant information in each
submitted file.
Your contribution is very beneficial to the Program. Materials
submitted must
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be publicly available or able to be made public. Materials that are
considered confidential; marketing materials; study types not included
in the review; or information on topics not included in the review
cannot be used by the EPC Program. This is a voluntary request for
information, and all costs for complying with this request must be
borne by the submitter.
The draft of this review will be posted on AHRQ's EPC Program
website and available for public comment for a period of 4 weeks. If
you would like to be notified when the draft is posted, please sign up
for the email list at: <a href="https://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/email-updates">https://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/email-updates</a>.
The review will answer the following questions. This information is
provided as background. AHRQ is not requesting that the public provide
answers to these questions.
Guiding Questions
The brief will be facilitated by guiding questions (GQs),
documenting research and key informant input:
GQ1. Which prioritization criteria for health care quality measures
have been proposed?
<bullet> What settings and intended use were the criteria developed
for?
<bullet> How are the criteria defined and operationalized?
<bullet> In what context have these criteria been used?
<bullet> How are the criteria similar or different from the current
NHQDR criteria?
GQ2. How should the current NHQDR measure selection prioritization
criteria be updated?
<bullet> What is the operationalized definition of each updated
prioritization criteria?
<bullet> What type of health care quality measures would help the
NHQDR's primary audience monitor the effectiveness of health policy
levers?
GQ3. How should the new NHDQR measure selection prioritization
criteria be applied?
PICOTS (Populations, Interventions, Comparators, Outcomes, Timing,
and Setting)
Criteria for Inclusion/Exclusion of Studies in the Review
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Domain Inclusion Exclusion
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Population.............. <bullet> Publications <bullet> Publications
that address quality not addressing
of care indicators, quality of care,
criteria, or disparities, or
benchmarks. We will social determinants
accept the authors' of health.
definition of quality
of care. Quality
indicators may
include care
processes-related
measures (e.g.,
follow-up post
discharge, continuity
of care, medication
errors), heath
services utilization
measures (e.g.,
hospital readmission,
emergency department
visit), care
satisfaction (e.g.,
patient satisfaction,
care needs met, trust
in care provider), or
health outcomes
(e.g., mortality,
physical functional
status, mental
functioning, quality
of life) used as
quality indicators;
care disparities may
either address
differences in
provided health
services, focus on
care services or
health outcomes of
priority populations.
Concept................. <bullet> Publications <bullet> Publications
that describe a describing only the
process of need for quality of
developing, care measures, only
selecting, applying, quality of care
comparing, measures without
evaluating, or describing the
prioritizing process of how to
measures, i.e., select measures, only
procedures, guiding discussing the
principles, suggested importance of
selection criteria, selecting measures,
proposed decision suggesting measures
rules, or consensus only for individual
finding methods; clinical areas or
publications must patient populations,
describe an empirical or only describing
ongoing or completed hypothetical steps to
process to select select measures.
measures used to
assess care quality
of a healthcare
delivery organization
or healthcare system.
Context................. <bullet> Healthcare, <bullet> Studies in
specifically contexts outside of
healthcare delivery healthcare, not
organizations. specific to
healthcare, or not
applicable to the
U.S. health care
system.
Other limiters.......... <bullet> Reports <bullet> Data reported
published in English- in abbreviated format
language journal (e.g., conference
manuscripts, trial abstracts) will be
records, and gray excluded; studies not
literature in the published in English.
public domain from <bullet> Systematic
the outlined sources. reviews will be
retained for
reference mining.
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Searches will be conducted without date restriction.
Dated: January 8, 2024.
Marquita Cullom,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 2024-00617 Filed 1-12-24; 8:45 am]
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