Supplemental Evidence and Data Request on Updating the Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR), 2611-2612 [2024-00617]
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INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION CRITERIA BY POPULATION, INTERVENTION, COMPARATOR, OUTCOME, TIMING, SETTING/STUDY
DESIGN (PICOTS)—Continued
PICOTS
elements
Inclusion criteria
Timing ...............
• Type 2 diabetes ................................................
• Minimum intervention length of 12 weeks Effect on growth, size, and body composition.
Æ Minimum intervention length of 12 weeks.
• All except hospital and acute care ....................
• Randomized controlled trials .............................
• Nonrandomized controlled trials, including
quasi-experimental and controlled before-andafter studies.
• Prospective cohort studies ................................
• Nested case-control studies ..............................
• Relevant systematic reviews, or meta-analyses
(used for identifying additional studies).
• Studies published in English only .....................
• Studies published in peer-reviewed journals ....
• Studies published at and after the year 2000 ..
Settings .............
Study design .....
Publications .......
Exclusion criteria
• Any intervention length <12 weeks.
• Hospital and acute care.
• In vitro studies, nonoriginal data (e.g., narrative reviews, scoping reviews, editorials, letters, or erratum), retrospective cohort studies, case
series, qualitative studies, cost-benefit analysis, cross-sectional (i.e.,
nonlongitudinal) studies, survey.
• Non-English language studies.
Abbreviations: BMI = body mass index; HbA1c = hemoglobin A1C; GI = gastrointestinal; KQ = Key Question; PICOTS = populations, interventions, comparators, outcomes, timing, and settings; RCT = randomized controlled trial; U.S. = United States
Dated: January 8, 2024.
Marquita Cullom,
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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 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: epc@
ahrq.hhs.gov.
Print submissions:
Mailing Address: Center for Evidence
and Practice Improvement, Agency for
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ATTN: EPC SEADs Coordinator, 5600
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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: epc@ahrq.hhs.gov.
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:
https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/
products/measurement-criteria-qdr/
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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:
D A list of completed studies that
your organization has sponsored for this
topic. In the list, please indicate
whether results are available on
ClinicalTrials.gov along with the
ClinicalTrials.gov trial number.
D For completed studies that do not
have results on ClinicalTrials.gov, 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.
D A list of ongoing studies that your
organization has sponsored for this
topic. In the list, please provide the
ClinicalTrials.gov 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.
D 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:
https://www.effectivehealthcare.
ahrq.gov/email-updates.
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?
• What settings and intended use
were the criteria developed for?
• How are the criteria defined and
operationalized?
• In what context have these criteria
been used?
• How are the criteria similar or
different from the current NHQDR
criteria?
GQ2. How should the current NHQDR
measure selection prioritization criteria
be updated?
• What is the operationalized
definition of each updated prioritization
criteria?
• 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
Domain
Inclusion
Population ............
• Publications that address quality of care indicators, criteria, or benchmarks. We will accept the authors’ 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.
• Publications that describe a process of developing, selecting, applying, comparing, evaluating, or prioritizing measures, i.e., procedures, guiding principles, suggested selection criteria, proposed decision rules, or consensus finding
methods; publications must describe an empirical ongoing
or completed process to select measures used to assess
care quality of a healthcare delivery organization or
healthcare system.
• Healthcare, specifically healthcare delivery organizations ..
Concept ................
Context .................
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Exclusion
• Reports published in English-language journal manuscripts, trial records, and gray literature in the public domain from the outlined sources.
• Publications not addressing quality of care, disparities, or
social determinants of health.
• Publications describing only the need for quality of care
measures, only quality of care measures without describing the process of how to select measures, only discussing the importance of selecting measures, suggesting
measures only for individual clinical areas or patient populations, or only describing hypothetical steps to select
measures.
• Studies in contexts outside of healthcare, not specific to
healthcare, or not applicable to the U.S. health care system.
• Data reported in abbreviated format (e.g., conference abstracts) will be excluded; studies not published in English.
• Systematic reviews will be retained for reference mining.
Searches will be conducted without
date restriction.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Dated: January 8, 2024.
Marquita Cullom,
Associate Director.
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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: [email protected].
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: [email protected].
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: https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/measurement-criteria-qdr/protocol.
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 ClinicalTrials.gov along with the ClinicalTrials.gov
trial number.
[ssquf] For completed studies that do not have results on
ClinicalTrials.gov, 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
ClinicalTrials.gov 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: https://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/email-updates.
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?
What settings and intended use were the criteria developed
for?
How are the criteria defined and operationalized?
In what context have these criteria been used?
How are the criteria similar or different from the current
NHQDR criteria?
GQ2. How should the current NHQDR measure selection prioritization
criteria be updated?
What is the operationalized definition of each updated
prioritization criteria?
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.............. Publications 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................. Publications 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................. Healthcare, 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.......... Reports 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 Systematic
the outlined sources. reviews will be
retained for
reference mining.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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