Table 2.
QI Collaborative Features in 9 States
| Features of QI Collaborative | State |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | Illinois | Massachusetts | Maine | North Carolina | Oregon | South Carolina | Utah | West Virginia | |
| No. of practices participating | 20* | 16† | 13 | 24 | 26‡ | 8 | 18 | 12 | 10 |
| Duration | 1.5 y | 1.5 y | 2.5 y | 2 y | 2 y for each cohort | 2 y | 4 y | 3.5 y§ | 1.5 y |
| Stipends | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Leadership | American Academy of Pediatrics (professional association)¶ | American Academy of Pediatrics (professional association)¶ | National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (nonprofit) | Maine Quality Counts (regional collaborative) | North Carolina Community Care Network (CCNC)/North Carolina Center of Excellence for Integrated Care (public–private partnership) | Oregon Pediatric Improvement Network (public– private partnership); Oregon Rural Practice Research Network (university-based network) | South Carolina Dept of Health and Human Services; American Academy of Pediatrics (professional association)¶ | Utah Pediatric Partnership to Improve Healthcare Quality (public– private partnership) | CSI Solutions (consultants) |
| Activities | |||||||||
| Frequency of in-person meetings (duration) | Semiannually (1–2 d) | Semiannually (1 d) | Semiannually (2 d) | Semiannually (2 d) | Semiannually (1 d) | Semiannually (1 d) | Semiannually (2.5 d) | Semiannually (1 d) | Once (1 d) |
| Frequency of conference calls/Webinars (duration) | Monthly (1 h) | Monthly (1 h) | Monthly (1 h) | Monthly (1 h) | Monthly (1 h) | Monthly (1.5 h) | || | Monthly (30 min) | Monthly (1 h) |
| E-mail mailing list | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||
| Members-only Web site/blog | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Practices report on quality measures to collaborative | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Aims and topics | |||||||||
| Initial Core Set measures | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| QI strategies | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Medical home model of care | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
QI = quality improvement. y = years. d = days. h = hours. min = minutes.
Florida experienced attrition in its QI collaborative, resulting in 16 participating practices as of late 2012.
Sixteen practices are participating in Illinois’s QI Collaborative. An additional 35 practices are receiving other types of technical assistance aimed at helping them adopt the medical home model.
North Carolina is offering its QI collaborative to 2 separate cohorts. Twelve practices participated in the first cohort and 14 practices participated in the second cohort.
Utah is offering a 3.5-year QI collaborative that is composed of four 9-month subcollaborative projects.
South Carolina did not initially offer conference calls as part of their QI collaborative but planned to begin offering such calls in 2013.
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ national headquarters provided leadership to Florida’s collaborative, while state chapters of this organization provided leadership to the collaboratives in Illinois and South Carolina.