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Session Title: Performance Measurement: Getting to Yes With Grantees and Partners

Panel Session 335 to be held in Versailles Room on Thursday, November 8, 9:35 AM to 11:05 AM

Sponsored by the Health Evaluation TIG

Chair(s):

Thomas payday loan  Chapel payday loan ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  tchapel@cdc.gov

Abstract: A number of federal programs are implemented by networks of grantees and frontline participants. The process of development and implementation of performance measures is a formidable one because evaluation skills and availability of data sources vary from grantee to grantee, as does willingness to divert time and resources to performance measurement. This panel presents three CDC programs that have trod the performance measurement path and are encountering and solving problems of development and implementation of measures by their partners and grantees. Presenters will talk about their programs, involvement of their grantees and partners in developing performance measurement approaches, and the need for indicators. The process for developing and implementing indicators, decisions on where to impose uniformity or grant autonomy in indicators and data collection, and most effective methods of obtaining grantee participation will be discussed. Transferable lessons from CDC Experience will be identified.

How do you Keep it Going? Steps That one Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Program Takes to Keep Performance Measures Relevant Betty payday loan  Apt payday loan ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  bapt@cdc.gov Dayne payday loan  Collins payday loan ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  dcollins@cdc.gov In 2004, CDC's Division of STD Prevention implemented performance measures for the 65 state and local health departments they fund. Among the challenges CDC has faced since implementation is (1) verifying the validity of the data project areas submit, (2) keeping the measures relevant as programs and disease epidemiology change, and (3) determining the best way to help project areas improve their performance. This presentation will describe techniques CDC uses to address these issues, such as internal data analysis to identify trends, 'Learning Tours' to obtain qualitative input from project areas and to validate data collection techniques, regularly-scheduled consultations with project area representatives, the application of specific criteria to assess the merit of each measure, and dissemination of 'lessons learned' and best practices.

Getting From War Stories to Science: Developing Performance Measures in Public Health Emergency Preparedness Sue Lin payday loan  Yee payday loan ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  sby9@cdc.gov Getting from War Stories to Science: Developing Performance Measures in Public Health Emergency Preparedness Increasingly, government programs are utilizing performance measures to demonstrate fiscal and programmatic accountability. In public health emergency preparedness, developing valid and reliable performance measures that generate accurate and comparable data for reporting at the grantee and aggregate levels is made more difficult by the field's expanding evidence base and divergent expert opinion on promising practices. Since 2004, CDC's Public Health Emergency Preparedness cooperative agreement, which funds 62 grantees to build capacity/capability in responding to public health emergencies, has worked in collaboration with federal agencies, national partners, and grantees to develop and implement such performance measures. The presenter will discuss the process taken to develop useful and feasible measures and provide lessons learned for other programs seeking to travel the performance measurement road. Disclairmer: The findings and conclusions in this abstract are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Performance Measurement in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Diabetes Translation: Some Early Lessons Learned Kristina payday loan  Ernst payday loan ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  kernst1@cdc.gov David payday loan  Guthrie payday loan ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  dguthrie@cdc.gov Richard payday loan  Hoffman payday loan ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  rhoffman@cdc.gov Wayne payday loan  Millington payday loan ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  wmillington@cdc.gov Clay payday loan  Cooksey payday loan ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  ccooksey@cdc.gov The Division of Diabetes Translation's (DDT) mission is to eliminate the preventable burden of diabetes through leadership, research, programs, and policies that translate science into practice. We describe performance measurement efforts in DDT's Program Development Branch, key challenges and next steps, emphasizing implications for our state Diabetes Prevention and Control Programs and attempts to assess contributions of their efforts. We will describe lessons learned and recommendations for others considering developing a public health performance measurement system.