What's New

This page will house the recent findings and resources from both the national evaluation team and the State-based evaluation teams. It also will include slide decks from recent presentations at conferences, issue briefs, journal articles, replication guides, and other materials.

Evaluation Highlights

The national evaluation team is producing a series of issue briefs that frame the most pertinent evaluation findings for a variety of audiences concerned with children's health care quality. These 4-6 page briefs, entitled Evaluation Highlights, will include both descriptive and analytic findings depending on the topic and time period of the demonstration, and will be posted to this page as they become available.

Evaluation Highlight No. 2: How are States and evaluators measuring medical homeness in the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program?

May 2013

Many State Medicaid and CHIP programs and private health plans are pursuing medical home initiatives in an effort to improve the quality of care for children and adults, but varying conceptual definitions and measurement goals have led to the development of a number of different medical home measurement tools. This Evaluation Highlight examines the measurement of medical homeness in selected CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program projects. It also describes the development of the Medical Home Index-Revised Short Form (MHI-RSF), an adaptation of the short version of the Medical Home Index (MHI), for use in evaluating the demonstration projects. Using baseline MHI-RSF data, this Highlight presents preliminary statistics on medical homeness for demonstration practices in six States.

  • Evaluation Highlight No. 2: How are States and evaluators measuring medical homeness in the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program? May 2013, available as a ( PDF file PDF version - 924.92 KB HTML text.
  • How are States and evaluators measuring medical homeness in the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program? Supplement to Evaluation Highlight No. 2, May 2013, available as a PDF file PDF version - 164.77 KB or HTML text.

Please note: This Web site uses the term "national evaluation" to distinguish this evaluation of the entire demonstration program from evaluations commissioned or undertaken by grantees. The word "national" should not be interpreted to mean that findings are representative of the United States as a whole.

Current as of June 2013
Internet Citation: What's New. June 2013. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/whatsnew.html