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Quality Profiles: The Leadership Series NCQA has released six volumes in a series of Quality Profiles publications that highlight successful efforts to address specific health care issues. The first volume, Focus on Cardiovascular Disease; the second, Focus on Depression; and the third, Focus on Diabetes, are available on this site. These volumes, as well as Focus on Care for Older Adults, Focus on Wellness and Prevention, Focus on Tobacco Dependence and Smoking Cessation and the newly released Focus on Supporting Quality Improvement Through the Use of Health Information Technology, are available in hard copy. |
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What is Quality Profiles? Quality Profiles explores the implications of quality improvement (QI), the rationale for change, and the barriers to improvements in the context of an expanded discussion of the personal, social, and economic impact of the health care conditions under review. The overall goal of this series is to provide health care organizations and employers with a rich, up-to-date collection of QI resources, illustrated by case studies, to use as a foundation for new program development. |
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Profile Case Studies The case studies featured demonstrate multiple ways to conduct successful quality initiatives. We have used a format designed to make the profiles easy to understand, adapt and implement. In addition to the full profiles, additional case studies and examples are highlighted as Quality Lessons and Quality Options. |
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Initiative Activity (QIA) Tools Many of the plans agreed to share templates of the tools they used to help implement their initiatives. Examples include patient education brochures, focus group questions and provider information letters. |
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