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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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  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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