• Clinical Quality
• Medical Group Performance
• Q & A
• Helpful Resources
• Technical Appendix
• Disclaimer
• Acknowledgements
• Patient Experiences
• Letters of Support

quality reports : Clinical Quality : Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

The development and production of the MHQP Quality Insights - Healthcare Performance in Massachusetts: Clinical Quality in Primary Care report could not have been completed without the dedicated effort of a team of individuals both within and external to MHQP. In particular we would like to thank Kathryn Coltin, Helen Osborne, and Robert Rosofsky, all of whom served as consultants on this project providing clinical, technical, and design support. Without their creative insights and energy, our task would have been immeasurably more difficult. We are also grateful to the MHQP Board of Directors, which gave valuable feedback and guidance at each step of the project and to the MHQP staff, Janice Singer, Brian Patrolia, Polly Marvin, Barbara Lambiaso, Phakdey Chea Yous, Jason Leistikow, and Lauren Piccolo, who worked so hard to create this report.

One crucial goal of this project is to design a report that is useful to physicians, aiding them in determining where quality improvement efforts would be most valuable. We could not have met this goal without the insights provided to us by the members of the MHQP Physician Council who devoted significant time to reviewing our report concept and design as the project evolved. We would also like to acknowledge the excellent advice we received from the Massachusetts Medical Society's Committee on the Quality of Medical Practice. Our discussions with both of these groups were invaluable as was of the feedback we received from Physician Council members Barbara Spivak, Ed Westrick, and Greg Young who reviewed the reports before they were distributed to all medical groups.

In addition, we want to thank our representatives from the participating health plans: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Fallon Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Health New England, and Tufts Health Plan, for providing us the data that make this report possible. We also want to recognize the effort by members of medical groups throughout Massachusetts who provide us with the most current information on the physician members of their groups, on new groups, and groups which have discontinued. This information helps us to ensure accurate reporting.

Finally, we want to acknowledge the NCQA 2009 State of Health Care Quality Report, and the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) each of which was a source of invaluable information that helped us to explain the quality measures used in this report and inform the reader about how to obtain high quality health care.