NQF is a unique, multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to improve healthcare quality by setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement, endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance, and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.
Safe Practices
To guide healthcare systems in providing safe care NQF maintains a set of Safe Practices for Better Healthcare. The evidence-based safe practices are ready-to-use tools to improve safety and guide large and small healthcare systems in providing the safest care possible. Additional resources about safety and safe practices are available.
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