Reports & Resource Guides

The PQA Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Resource Guide documents real-world SDOH services that are promising for improving the quality and safety of medication use. The guide focuses on SDOH screenings, referrals and interventions conducted by or involving pharmacists or pharmacies.

PQA convened 23 national experts and patients to prioritize opportunities to improve the quality of care for individuals using oral anticancer medications (OAM). The group’s number one measurement priority is a health plan performance measure to assess the degree to which patients take OAMs as prescribed.

The second edition of the PQA Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Resource Guide profiles 32 SDOH services, focused on SDOH screenings, referrals and interventions conducted by or involving pharmacists or pharmacies.

The PQA Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Resource Guide profiles 20 real-world SDOH services that are promising for improving the quality and safety of medication use, focused on SDOH screenings, referrals and interventions conducted by or involving pharmacists or pharmacies.

The Patient Engagement in Quality Measurement Rubric is a guide to help meaningfully include the patient community as a partner across the quality measure lifecycle.

A PQA task force identified 15 actions that pharmacists and payers can take to foster the adoption of pharmacist-provided care. Pharmacist-provided care can transform the pharmacist’s role in health care from a medication dispenser to an indispensable clinical care team member.