Effective Collaborations of Evaluators and Providers in Health Policy

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Recorded at the UTMB Health Policy Lecture Series, January 7, 2015. Craig Thornton, PhD, Senior Vice President of Mathematica Policy Research offers a discussion of developing health policy for collaboration between providers and evaluators of healthcare. Dr. Craig Thornton offers a discussion of developing health policy for collaboration between providers and evaluators in healthcare. He describes quality improvement efforts, systems change approaches, and partnerships for patients.

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  • Topic Outline: Effective Collaborations of Evaluators and Providers in Health Policy

    1. Introduction (0:00 - 1:55)              
      • Dr. Ottenbacher introduces Dr. Thornton
    2. Setting the stage for collaboration (1:55 – 12:08)
      • Two Broad Policy Development Approaches: Independent Program Evaluation vs. Quality Improvement Efforts
      • Evaluators and Practitioners Working Together?
      • Evaluation Design Tensions
      • Takeaways on goals for policymaking
    3. Structured Training and Employment Transitional Services Demonstration (12:08-16:08)
      • A cautionary tale for people who study program operations
      • IMPACT evaluation: Assisting young adults with intellectual disabilities to get jobs
      • STETS Evaluation Findings
      • Lessons from STETS
    4. Transitional Employment & Training Demonstration (16:08-24:54)
      • Average monthly earnings for various participant groups
      • Evaluations based on random assignment are not always the best way to proceed
    5. Quality Improvement & Systems Change Approaches (24:54-27:56 )
      • PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) Cycles
      • Action effort method 27:56-35:16 Partnership for Patients: An Illustrative Example
      • PfP: A large QI Effort
      • Medicare FFS 30-Day all-cause readmissions 
    6. Looking for the best of both worlds? Match the methods to the questions to the goals (35:16-1:00:13)
      • What do policymakers want to know?
      • Further design considerations
      • Looking at “emerging methods”
      • Build rigor into QI efforts
      • Estab. ongoing partnerships & Concluding remarks
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