The public health community is increasingly faced with the challenge of accountability in a rapidly changing and competitive health care system. In Spring 1997, a TBCB co-sponsored Public/Private Health Care Summit recommended the development of HEDIS-like indicators for TB control and prevention as a means to ensure appropriate TB care in public and private sectors.
To address these challenges, TBCB in partnership with local health departments initiated the TB Indicators Project (TIP). TIP uses TB indicators (supported by an enhanced system for data collection, analysis) for program planning and evaluation at the state and local level. We believe that a performance improvement system that uses indicators will significantly improve TB control functions, processes and outcomes over time.
The following interconnected elements were essential to developing a comprehensive performance improvement system: a focused interdisciplinary planning process; a clearly defined purpose; stakeholder involvement in selecting indicators and designing the implementation plan; measures that are meaningful to the state and local health departments; a systematic process for data development and program review and; the infrastructure to support TIP implementation
The process used at TBCB and with our TB partners to define TIP's essential elements can provide guidance to state and local public health programs interested in using data to guide the planning, implementation and evaluation of program activities. An ongoing evaluation of TIP is being conducted to help inform us of needed changes to enhance the impact of TIP over time.
Learning Objectives: Articulate a process for utilizing data to guide program planning and evaluation. Recognize and develop various types of program performance indicators. Construct a program performance review cycle using indicators. Define the program infrastructure needed to support a performance review cycle. Identify methods for eliciting stakeholder input and buy-in
Keywords: Evaluation, Indicators
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: California Department of Health Services
Local Health Department TB Program in California
Curry National TB Center in San Fracisco
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.