The Quality and Performance Measures Workgroup is working to identify gaps in quality and performance improvement measures for adult immunizations, work with partners to encourage the development of appropriate adult immunization performance measures, and promote the use of such adult immunization measures to increase the overall rates of adult immunization.

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Meeting Archives

February 20, 2019

• Meeting Agenda

November 5, 2018

• Meeting Agenda & Updates

June 18, 2018

• Meeting Agenda & Updates

• Presentation Slides:
  • Health Center Program: Uniform Data System (UDS) and Modernization Initiative
  • PQA Adult Immunization Measure Development Update
  • ACOG Prenatal Record
  • AVAC Update: CMS Fiscal Year 2019 Inpatient Facility Proposed Rules

February 26, 2018

• Meeting Agenda & Updates

• Presentation Slides:
  • Increasing Adult Immunization Rates in the US through Data and Quality: A Roadmap
  • (Brochure) Vaccines and Quality Roadmap: Using Healthcare Quality Levers to Increase Adult Immunization Rates in the U.S.
  • (Infographic) Increasing Adult Immunization Rates In The US Through Data And Quality: A Roadmap

October 2, 2017

• Meeting Agenda & Updates

• Presentation Slides:
  • NQF Endorsement Process & CDP Redesign

August 21, 2017

• Meeting Agenda & Updates

• Presentation Slides:
  • PQA Immunization Measures Under Development

June 12, 2017

• Meeting Agenda & Updates

• Presentation Slides:
  • Adult Immunization Task Force: Update on PQA Immunization Measures
  • AVAC Update
  • A Day in the Life of a CMS Quality Measure

May 15, 2017

• Meeting Agenda (ESRD Subgroup Only)

• Presentation Slides:
  • Vaccination in the End-Stage Renal Disease Medicare Beneficiary Population

April 17, 2017

• Meeting Agenda & Updates

January 23, 2017

• Meeting Agenda (ESRD Subgroup Only)

November 28, 2016

• Meeting Agenda

• Presentation Slides:
  • What is a Composite Measure?

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Projects

Advancing Immunization Measures for End-Stage Renal Disease Patients: Recommendations of the National Adult and Immunization Summit (NAIIS) – April 18, 2018
The End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) subgroup developed a set of recommendations to CMS on potential means to improve End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) quality programs in the Medicare ESRD population.

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Priority Setting for Health Care Performance Measurement: Addressing Performance Measure Gaps in Priority Areas
The working group provided input to efforts to identify gaps in the development and implementation of adult immunization quality measures, and helped shape initiatives to address these gaps, including the National Quality Forum (NQF) adult immunization project, and the initial efforts to develop a national immunization plan.

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Resources

Shen AK, Bridges CB, Tan L. The first national adult immunization summit 2012: implementing change through action. Vaccine. 2013 Jan 2;31(2):279-84. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.11.033. Epub 2012 Nov 19.

Shen AK, Groom AV, Leach DL, Bridges CB, Tsai AY, Tan L. A pathway to developing and testing quality measures aimed at improving adult vaccination rates in the United States. Vaccine. 2019 Feb 28;37(10):1277-1283. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.01.044. Epub 2019 Feb 6.