FIGURE 2: GENERIC QUALITY TRANSPARENCY LOGIC MODEL
Box with "environmental factors" containing boxes:"market characteristics", "characteristics of the health care system and providers", and "factors affecting consumers’ ability and incentive/willingness to shop". From this box there are arrows drawn to boxes with the names: "inputs","activities","outputs", and "outcomes". A "barriers" box sits at the bottom of the image
inputs-contains these boxes: "Raw quality data", line drawn to: "Funds for planning, implementation, maintenance and monitoring of quality reporting", line drawn to: "Formative evaluation, defining objectives of quality transparency initiative". There is also an arrow that points from the "inputs" box to the "activities" box.
activities- contains these boxes: "Develop or select measures that accurately and appropriately measure quality of care", line drawn to: "Institute practices to ensure data are collected and reported accurately and allow comparison across providers", line drawn to:"Present quality data that are credible, meaningful and easy to access, understand and navigate". There is also an arrow that points from the "activities" box to the "outputs" box.
Barriers--contains these boxes: " It is difficult to measure quality of care", "It is difficult to collect and report quality data that are accurate, complete and comparable across providers", and "Consumers/providers unlikely to use quality data unless data are credible, meaningful, easy to access, navigate and understand". Three arrows from the "barriers" box point to,( "Develop or select measures that accurately and appropriately measure quality of care", "Institute practices to ensure data are collected and reported accurately and allow comparison across providers", and the "Present quality data that are credible, meaningful and easy to access, understand and navigate" boxes.
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