AF4Q

Acronym	Definition
AF4Q	Aligning Forces for Quality

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"Did Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Improve Provider Performance Transparency?

Presenting Cost and Efficiency Measures That Support Consumers to Make High-Value Health Care Choices

Our exploratory analysis uses data from a random digit dial telephone survey undertaken as part of the evaluation of the AF4Q initiative.

What influences the awareness of physician quality information? Implications for Medicare

There is substantial variation in the history of public reporting efforts across the 14 AF4Q regions included in this study (Christianson et al.

Is anyone paying attention to physician report cards? The impact of increased availability on consumers' awareness and use of physician quality information

Specifically, we sought to determine, approximately 6 years after the program's initiation in 2006, whether chronically ill adults in 14 AF4Q communities reported greater improvement in care coordination, patient satisfaction, provider interaction and support, and receipt of recommended care for diabetes than patients in non-AF4Q communities.

Community-level quality improvement and the patient experience for chronic illness care

(15) Determining how policy makers might best promote and combine these attributes will require additional study, most likely in the form of additional field experiments (and complementary evaluations) modeled on the earlier pilot Patient Partner programs developed as part of the AF4Q initiative described earlier (Scanlon et al.

Using patient-reported information to improve clinical practice

In this case, among all AF4Q alliances, only Maine shows a significant increase in perceived leadership among all respondents combined.

Assessing organizational change in multisector community health alliances

We assessed differences between respondents and nonrespondents with regard to practice size, specialty mix, region of the country, and whether the practice was located in an AF4Q community.

Physician practice participation in accountable care organizations: the emergence of the unicorn

Respondents from the 14 AF4Q communities totaled 1,201 practices.

Use of care management practices in small- and medium-sized physician groups: do public reporting of physician quality and financial incentives matter?

Substantial variation also exists in the differences between the approaches across the AF4Q communities.

Editors and researchers beware: calculating response rates in random digit dial health surveys

The overall response rate for the survey was 27 percent using the American Association of Public Opinion Research method of response rate calculation (found at http://www.aapor.org/ForResearchers/4362.htm) or 48 percent using the Council of American Survey Research Organizations method, with 7,337 respondents in the 14 AF4Q markets completing the survey.

Chronic illness and patient satisfaction

Nevertheless, we specifically compared several estimates from the AF4Q Consumer Survey against those from the 2008 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) in terms of respondents' demographic characteristics and prevalence of comparable chronic conditions, because NHIS has achieved a 90 percent response rate and is thus less likely to be subject to non-response bias.

Care coordination for the chronically ill: understanding the patient's perspective

The primary source was a random digit dial telephone survey of chronically ill individuals conducted in 14 Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) study areas and a national comparison group between June 2007 and August 2008.

Patient-physician role relationships and patient activation among individuals with chronic illness