Project Evaluation Activity in Support of Partnership for Patients: Task 2 Evaluation Progress Report

Project Evaluation Activity in Support of Partnership for Patients: Task 2 Evaluation Progress Report

Published: Feb 28, 2014
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research under subcontract for the Health Services Advisory Group

Associated Project

Partnership for Patients

Time frame: 2011-2015

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Authors

Andrew Clarkwest

Arnold Chen

Maureen Higgins

Valerie Cheh

Jelena Zurovac

Gina M. Tignini

Robert Fornango

Julia Lewis

Sunny Bateman

The goal of the evaluation is to assess the harm reduction during the period when all three engines (CMMI, federal partners, and private partners) were engaged simultaneously in an extraordinary effort to meet the common goals. This report provides an interim assessment of the PfP campaign’s progress towards reducing hospital-acquired harms, based on the synthesis of evidence across multiple data sources and using multiple analytic techniques. The national scale of PfP makes it challenging to assess its overall impacts, as there is little opportunity to identify the progress that would be made in its absence. However, it is important to assess PfP’s overall progress towards its goals, even if more rigorous analyses examining specific features or components of PfP must wait for more complete data to become available.

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