The Kidney Care National Plan highlights the continued commitment of HHS to advance kidney care and identifies opportunities for policy reform and improvement across the Department’s efforts. The relative lack of innovation in kidney care is the structural outcome of anti-competitive and burdensome actions that have maintained the national crisis of kidney disease and kidney failure.
Division of Health Care Quality and Outcomes (HQO)
The Division of Health Care Quality and Outcomes (HQO) is responsible for analysis, coordination, research, and evaluation of policies related to health care quality and outcomes. HQO’s responsibilities include long-range planning, data development and analysis, program oversight, analysis of regulations and legislation, review and conduct of research and evaluation activities, and information dissemination. Relevant topic areas include:
- Quality measures;
- Value-based purchasing;
- Public reporting; and
- Comparative effectiveness research (CER) and patient-centered outcomes research and associated data infrastructure and information technology.
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Evidence-Based Measures for Chronic Disease Outcomes: A Review of Available Measures for Emergent HIV Therapies
The team conducted an environmental scan to explore the patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) that could be used in new and emerging human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) therapies. In the context of HIV clinical trials, PROMs may be used as clinical outcome assessments (COAs) to characterize how patients feel and function and to inform regulatory evaluations.
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Evidence-Based Measures for Chronic Disease Outcomes: A Review of Available Measures for Emergent Sickle Cell Disease Therapies
The team conducted an environmental scan to explore the patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) that could be used in new and emerging sickle cell disease (SCD) therapies.
ASPE Issue Brief, Report
Aligning Initiatives to End the HIV Epidemic in the United States
KEY POINTSThe Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) provides critical services to low-income peo
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Framework for a Public Repository of Artificial Intelligence Training Datasets Using EHR Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research & A Pediatric ADHD Patient-Centered Outcomes Annotation Schema
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools, particularly those that use natural language processing (NLP), are becoming increasingly prominent in healthcare delivery. For these systems to operate safely and reliably in clinical settings, they require high-quality training datasets drawn from multiple sources, including electronic health record (EHR) data, that closely reflect real-world conditions.
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Harnessing the Value of Electronic Health Record Data for Research
The United States (U.S.) faces urgent health challenges, including poor maternal and childhood health outcomes, childhood obesity, opioid use disorder, cancer, and chronic conditions, which require personalized care tailored to each patient’s unique circumstances.
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Building infrastructure and evidence for COVID-19 related research, using integrated data from NCHS Data Linkage Program
The overall goal of the project is to expand the utility of National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) linked data resources to support patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) through the development of publicly available synthetic linked data files.
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Creating Effective Medicaid Data Linkages for Health Outcomes Research
Patients, clinicians, decision makers, and other stakeholders depend on robust, evidence-based information to make informed health care decisions. Linking Medicaid data to other sources enables a deeper understanding of how Medicaid services and interventions influence health outcomes.
ASPE Issue Brief, Visualization
The State of Rural Hospitals in the U.S, 2012-2023
ASPE’s Office of Health Policy has developed an Issue Brief modeling the key determinants of rural hospital closure or conversion as well as an interactive Rural Hospital Dashboard to highlight key characteristics and trends among rural hospitals.