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Appendix A. Additional Tables (continued)

Table A.4. PFQ Grants—Reach: Target Population/Organizations and Number Participating in PFQ Project

Grantee Organization and Principal Investigator	Target Population		Participating Organization, Providers & Patients
Grantee Organization and Principal Investigator	Number	Type	Number Planned	Number Actual	Type
1. Altarum Institute PI: George J. Miller			300,000	Not specified	Patients in the simulation
			500		Practitioners in the simulation
			6		Hospitals
2. American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) PI : Carole M. Lannon, Center for Health Care Quality, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	3,100,000	Children with ADHD	160-180	186	Pediatric practices
			10	10	AAP state chapters (59 total)
			2000	Not specified	Pediatricians
3. American College of Physicians (ACP) PI: Vincenza Snow			384	Not specified	Patients
			36	35	Physician practices
			352	Not specified	Physicians
			180	Not specified	Nurses
4. American Hospital Association (AHA), Health Research and Education Trust PI: John R Combes			100	60-70	Hospitals
5. American Medical Association (AMA) PI: Karen S. Kmetik			200		Patients in pilot
			10	9 + 3 more large practices in test	Physician practices in pilots
			4		Health plans
6. American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) PI: David F. Polakoff			50	54	Nursing Facilities (14 dropped out)
	500,000	NF patients	5000	Not specified	NF patients
			500-1000	Not specified	Practitioners in pilots
7. Association of California Nurse Leaders PI: Nancy Donaldson, CalNOC & UCSF School of Nursing			30-35	35	Hospitals
			100	91	Med-surg acute care units
8. Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP) PI: Donald E. Casey			4	6	Hospitals in participating regions (31 total in system)
			33,492		FTEs in affiliated hospitals
			8,926		Affiliated MDs
9. Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) PI: Paul J. Sharek, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine & L Packard Children's Hospital			14	33	Children's hospitals—33 of 42 participated in at least one QI project
10. Connecticut Department of Public Health PI: Louise Dembry, Yale-New Haven Health System & Yale School of Medicine			4	1	Hospital and its affiliated physicians
			Not specified	91	Clinicians
11. HealthFront PI: Michael Callahan			2	2	State/regional employer coalitions
11. HealthFront PI: Michael Callahan			2	2	Physicians in the regional health care markets
12. International Severity Info Systems, Inc. PI: Susan Horn			>8	12	Nursing facilities (1 dropped out)
13. Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) PI: Jerod M. Loeb			285	575	Hospitals responding to survey
			90	490	CHCs responding to survey
14. The Leapfrog Group PI: Suzanne Delbanco			6	6	Purchaser groups in 6 markets
14. The Leapfrog Group PI: Suzanne Delbanco			100	Not specified	Hospitals
15. Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network PI: Mark Young, later Kenneth D. Coburn			3000		Patients with diabetes
			8	10	Primary care practices
			18		Primary care physicians
16. New York State Dept Of Health PI: Suzanne Broderick/Beth Dichter			2,700	Not specified	Nursing home residents
			740-2,600	Not specified	Adult Care Facility residents
			45	45	Nursing homes^a
			30-105	21	Adultcare facilities^a
17. Physicians Micro Systems, Inc. PI: Steven M Ornstein, Medical University of South Carolina	Up to 1,000,000	Patients in participating practices	100	125 total (but 99 >1 year)	Primary care practices
	847,073	Patients in participating practices	300-500	600	Primary care practitioners
18. Research Triangle Institute PI: Lucy A Savitz			4	5	Health systems
18. Research Triangle Institute PI: Lucy A Savitz			14,000		Clinicians
19. Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center, Rural and Community Health Institute (RCHI) PI: Josie R Williams			2	2	Regional health district offices
20. Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Center for Home Care Policy and Research PI: Penny H Feldman			8	8	Home health agencies

^a. Some of the planned and actual participating facilities included those in control groups.

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