Clinical Performance
- Background & purpose of the Performance Measure Implementation for Health Center Program grantees (2008) | HRSA Program Assistance Letter, April 10, 2008 | Document #: 2008-06
- Clinical Measures Review: Online Training Module This module introduces grantees to the new clinical measures that will be reported for the first time in March of 2009 for the period of January 1 – December 31, 2008. The module provides detailed instruction for how to complete the clinical measures reporting on tables 6b and 7 of the BPHC UDS Report. Bureau of Primary Health Care UDS Clinical Measures Training | Module I
- Developing Outcome Measures (2005) | Patricia Post, National Health Care for the Homeless Council
- Health Care for the Homeless Outcome Measures – A Chronicle of Twenty Pilot Studies (1999) | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Program Assistance Letter 1999
- Organizing Health Services for Homeless People: A Practical Guide(2001) | Marsha McMurray-Avila, National Health Care for the Homeless Council – This manual includes a chapter on quality improvement/quality assurance that examines these topics from the HCH perspective:
- Why is it important to have a quality improvement plan/process?
- What is the difference between quality improvement and quality assurance?
- How can HCH projects monitor and improve quality?
- What are the special issues regarding quality improvement in HCH projects?
- Who should be involved and responsible for the quality improvement process?
