This study for the USDA Food and Nutrition Service was conducted to determine existing measures for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program modernization initiatives, including call centers, online systems, document imaging, kiosks, partnering, waiving the face-to-face interview, shortened...

This report provides details on how each of the 45 states measures performance modernization initiatives for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and describes the performance standards in use.

This report integrates and summarizes findings on performance measurement for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program modernization initiatives across the 45 study states including how they monitor and measure performance. It also includes suggestions for performance measures and standards to...

This article provides a national perspective on hospital performance for 30-day risk-standardized mortality rates and risk-standardized readmission rates for patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction and heart failure.

This white paper presents a comparative framework of rapid evaluation methods for projects at three levels of complexity: quality improvement methods for simple process improvement projects, rapid cycle evaluations for complicated organizational change programs, and systems-based rapid feedback...

Perceptions of how organizations use data to make decisions differ greatly among staff in nonprofit organizations who are in a position to use data to make decisions and between those staff and staff at a funder that provides technical assistance to improve data driven decision making (DDDM)....

This report integrates and summarizes findings on performance measurement for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program modernization initiatives across the 45 study states including how they monitor and measure performance. It also includes suggestions for performance measures and standards to...