AHRQ Child & Adolescent Health Digest

 AHRQ Child & Adolescent Health Periodic Digest

Volume 14, No. 52, March 5, 2015   CAHPS Webinar Will Highlight Lessons from Top-Performing Medicaid and CHIP Health Plans - Register Now Screening for Obesity and Interventions for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents - Final Research Plan Posted Webcast on the CAHPS Child Hospital Survey – Now Available for Viewing AHRQ Research Conference Returns in 2015 CAHPS Webinar Will Highlight Lessons from Top-Performing Medicaid and CHIP Health Plans – Register Now Registration is now open for an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) webinar to be held March 17 from 1 to 2 p.m. ET. The Webinar will provide a forum to share success stories from Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) plans that have scored above the 80th percentile across all core measures on the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Health Plan Survey. Representatives from two top-performing health plans will share how they achieved high patient experience scores in the areas of access to care, communication with doctors, member information and customer service, and overall health plan ratings. AHRQ’s CAHPS Database receives data voluntarily submitted by users who have administered either the CAHPS Health Plan Survey or the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey. Go to: https://www.cahps.ahrq.gov/ Screening for Obesity and Interventions for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents – Final Research Plan Posted The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has posted a final research plan on screening for obesity and interventions for weight management in children and adolescents. The draft research plan for this topic was posted for public comment from October 23 to November 19, 2014. The Task Force reviewed all of the comments that were submitted and took them into consideration as it finalized the research plan. Go to: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Document/ResearchPlanFinal/obesity-and-weight-management-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-and-interventions Webcast on the CAHPS Child Hospital Survey – Now Available for Viewing The recording of a recent Webcast from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is now available for viewing. The Webcast introduced the new CAHPS Child Hospital Survey (Child HCAHPS), which assesses the experiences of pediatric patients and their parents or guardians with inpatient care. An overview of this new survey was provided during the Webcast, including its development by the AHRQ-Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) Center of Excellence for Pediatric Quality Measurement at Boston Children’s Hospital and the experiences of two hospitalsthat field-tested the survey. Go to: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=884209&s=1&k=F398C70289A36A210932DD7F3616EED6 AHRQ Research Conference Returns in 2015 AHRQ’s research conference, held annually from 2007 to 2012, returns this year and is scheduled for October 4–6 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in Crystal City, VA. will join AHRQ in hosting the conference, which once more will bring together experts in health care research and policy to participate in sessions focused on addressing today’s challenges in improving quality, safety, access, and value in health care, including care for children and adolescents. In addition, AHRQ and AcademyHealth will team with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to hold sessions October 6 focused on disseminationand implementation of findings from patient-centered outcomes research. Go http://www.academyhealth.org/ and http://wwwacademyhealth.org/Institute

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