Compiling Results From All Eight Focus Areas

Multi-stakeholder Community Inventory Modules

Community quality collaboratives are community-based organizations of multiple stakeholders, including health care providers, purchasers (employers, employer coalitions, Medicaid and others), health plans, and consumer advocacy organizations, that are working together to transform health care at the local level. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers these organizations many tools to assist in their efforts.

It may be useful to summarize the information obtained across the Learning Network's eight focus areas in a grid similar to the one shown on the next page. This summary can then be used for communicating the highlights and major findings of the inventory in meetings for future strategy development, prioritizing, brainstorming, and planning.

You may wish to compare your market's stage of development in each focus area by assigning its score, 1 being the lowest level of development (no activity or capability) and 10 being the highest level of development (fully developed) from each of the previous modules.

While there are no specific criteria for this scoring methodology, the process of evaluating each of the focus areas by the Focus Area Team, and then comparing the average scores to scores of the other focus areas, may be a valuable exercise in learning about each other's perspectives, building common language, and beginning to prioritize activities and strategies.

Focus Area	Total Score
Collaborative Leadership
Public At-large Engagement
Quality and Efficiency Measurement
Public Reporting
Provider Incentives
Consumer Incentives
Strategy for Improving Quality
Health Information Technology/Health Information Exchange

Using the total score information from the chart above, you may wish to examine your score by focus area relative to the total possible score for that area. A chart such as the one below allows you to calculate a percentage score for each focus area, so that you can compare your scores across focus areas.

Focus Area	Possible Score	Total Score	Percentage
Collaborative Leadership	*1910 = 190**
Public At-large Engagement	*1010=100**
Quality & Efficiency Measurement	*1610=160**
Public Reporting	*1810=180**
Provider Incentives	*1410=140**
Consumer Incentives	*1710=170**
Strategy for Improving Quality	*1310=130**
Health Information Technology/Health Information Exchange	*1610=160**

Community Inventory Results
	Gaps	Overlaps	Opportunities for Alignment	Challenges	Lessons Learned	Resources	Leaders
Collaborative Leadership
Public At-large Engagement
Quality and Efficiency Measurement
Public Reporting
Provider Incentives
Consumer Incentives
Strategy for Improving Quality
Health Information Technology/Health Information Exchange

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Current as of March 2009

Internet Citation: Compiling Results From All Eight Focus Areas: Multi-stakeholder Community Inventory Modules. March 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/value/cimodules/cimodules-b.html