NQF’s Action Teams are diverse, public-private multistakeholder partnerships that aim to create positive change through collaboration and collective impact. NQF has successfully used the Action Team model to address significant health and healthcare challenges. In 2012-2014, NQF’s Maternity Action Team contributed to a more than 50-percent drop in national early elective delivery rates. The 2014 Readmissions Action Team supported the spread of best practices to identify and manage patients at high risk for readmissions due to psychosocial issues. NQF also developed an interactive patient engagement tool, the Patient Passport, through the Patient and Family Engagement Action Team to help patients communicate better with their doctors and care teams about their needs, values, and preferences.

The 2015 Action Teams will conduct focused year-long efforts to promote awareness and accountability for the healthcare system in antibiotic stewardship as well as high-quality, person-centered care for people with serious advanced illness. Through webinars and in-person meetings, the teams will bring attention to and broadly disseminate best, promising, or innovative practices; promote solutions to improve appropriate antibiotic prescribing and deliver of high-quality advanced illness care; and partner to implement robust strategies such as performance measurement, public reporting, payment, accreditation, and certification.

For more information, please contact Senior Project Manager Kavitha Nallathambi at knallathambi@qualityforum.org. For sponsorship inquiries, please contact Wendy Prins, Vice President of Collaboration at wprins@qualityforum.org.