All Kids Count National Program Office

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All Kids CountNational Program Office

• Quantitative Performance
• Indicators
• March, 2000

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Measuring Progress

• What and Why?
• Methodology
• Results
• Conclusions

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What and Why?

• 16 AKC II Projects
• Quantitative measures
• Timeliness
• Database Maturity
• Provider Participation
• Coverage Levels

• To establish standardized measures to assess
• registry maturity
• progress over time

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Methodology

• 8 quantitative indicators
• 7 process
• 1 outcome-based
• 6 month intervals
• Self report survey

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Results - 1Timeliness of Data Captured

• births captured within 42 days.
• electronic transfer - average 61 (median 75)
• other methods - 9.5 and 43
• shots captured within 7 days.
• electronic submissions - average 50 (median 62)
• paper submissions - average 9 (median 5)
• even mix - average 19 (median 13)

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Results - 2Database Maturity
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Results - 3Provider Participation
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Results - 4Provider Participation Aggregate
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Results - 5Private Provider Levels

• Mandatory reporting legislation - 7 projects
• average enrolled 85 (median 91)
• average submitting data 71 (median 84)
• No reporting legislation - 9 projects
• average enrolled 51 (median 36)
• average submitting data 38 (median 25)

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Fully Operational StatusRanking
Ranking
Points accumulated
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Conclusions - 1

• Anything worthwhile is not easy at first!

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Conclusions - 2

• Data Collection and Reporting Issues
• systems not designed to collect indicator data
• elusive, fluctuating denominators
• data source problems - - e.g. vital records
• data quality/duplicate records
• low provider participation levels
• historical data skews results

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Conclusions - 3

• Despite difficulties are indicators useful?

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Conclusions - 4

• Progress can be measured across projects
• indicators 2, 4 and 6 are best
• Weak or problematic areas identified
• inadequate deduplication
• data capture delays
• Indicators can be good internal mgt. tool
• indicators must be a priority for projects --
  they require some work

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Conclusions - 5

• Next steps
• continue administering survey through June 2000
• further analysis of data
• publish results

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Contact Information

• KC Edwards
• [phone]
• kcedwards_at_taskforce.org
• Presentation requests
• info_at_allkidscount.org