Meeting Agenda

Agenda: Meeting 1 - Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures

December 14, 2009

10:00 a.m. Welcome
Gordon DeFriese, Chair

10:10 a.m. Sponsor Perspectives
- background and objectives for study
- overview of relevant agency portfolio

Cindy Mann, Director, Center for Medicaid and State Operations, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Denise Dougherty, Senior Advisor, Child Health and Quality Improvement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Congressional Perspective (by phone, if available)

11:15 a.m. Break

11:30 a.m. Overview of Pediatric Quality Measures

Charles Homer, National Initiative on Children’s Healthcare Quality

12:30 p.m. Discussion of Morning’s Presentations
(Lunch will be served in meeting room)

1:30 p.m. Measures of Pediatric Health and Health Services

Alan Simon, National Center for Health Statistics

Susan Lukacs, Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
Steven Hirschfeld, National Children’s Study, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development [invited]

3:30 p.m. End of Open Session



December 15, 2009

9:30 a.m. Discussion of Strategies and Approach Gordon DeFriese
- Identify key resources and key literature
- Determine additional information needed
- Discuss options and preferences for addressing information needs (e.g., presentations, commissioned papers)
- Formation of working groups
- Interim assignments
- Preferred modes of communications/information sharing strategies (web portal, CD, listserv)

10:45 Break

11:00 Discussion of Future Meetings
- Meeting schedule, locations

11:15 Discussion of Committee Workshop Michael O’Grady
- Agenda
- Timeline
- Focus and key issues for workshop
- Audience
- Potential speaker topics and authors

12:30 p.m. Lunch [to be served in the meeting room]

1:15 p.m. Preliminary Discussion of Dissemination Gary Freed
- Sponsor priorities
- Potential strategies
- Barriers and opportunities
- Timing

2:00 p.m. Final Comments and Adjourn

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