American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
Under Maintenance of Certification (MOC), quality improvement projects meeting standards set by the ABP can be approved and physicians participating in approved QI projects are eligible for credit toward maintenance of their ABP certification. Click here for more information.
Click here for a list of approved projects meeting MOC Part 4, Performance in Practice
Improvement Partnerships
An Improvement Partnership is a durable, regional collaboration of public and private partners that uses measurement based efforts and a systems approach to improving the quality of life for children.
With support from the Commonwealth Fund, the Vermont Child Health Improvement Partnership (VCHIP) is working to spread the Improvement Partnership model including tools and information to establish a new Improvement Partnerships. There are a total of 16 improvement partnerships across the nation within the states of: Arizona, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Washington D.C. and West Virginia. To learn more about Improvement Partnerships visit the VCHIP website.
Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP)
IPIP is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and led by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). The program seeks to develop, test and deploy a state-based approach that can support efforts by primary care physicians (family physicians, internists, pediatricians) and their care teams to improve chronic illness and preventative care. IPIP is focusing on asthma and diabetes in the following states: Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. For more information visit the ABMS website.
Alliance for Pediatric Quality (APQ)
The APQ
is a collaboration of four national pediatric organizations (AAP, American Board of Pediatrics, Child Health Corporation of America and the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions) working together to measurably improve the quality of health care for America’s children. Priority areas for action are quality improvement, health information technology and strategic national relationships. To learn more visit the APQ website.
Other organizations focused on quality
National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Institute for Healthcare Quality (IHI)
National Quality Forum (NQF)
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI)
Rand Health, Quality of Care Assessments
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC), Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Health Insight
CQN Asthma