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National Voluntary Consensus Standards for the Reporting of Therapeutic
Drug Management Quality
Advances in pharmaceutical science and technology are among the most important
achievements of modern healthcare. Large numbers of patients have improved quality
of life, and hundreds of thousands of patients with previously fatal diseases
now experience transient acute illnesses or live with chronic conditions...More
Home Health Care Patient Experience of Care Measures
There has been growing recognition of the importance of home health in the continuum
of care, especially among those with chronic, co-morbid illnesses. While there
has been a growing movement towards quality measurement in home health care,
the voice of the patient has been absent. A measure of the patient experience
of care in home health care is needed to fully understand the quality of home
health care in America. More
National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Hospital Care: Specialty Clinician Performance Measures
Despite the expanding list of NQF-endorsed™ consensus standards assessing
the quality of hospital care, there are critical aspects of hospital
care not being addressed. Various stakeholders have recognized
a need to fill in the gaps of hospital-based measure sets, particularly
in the area of specialty clinician (physician and other licensed independent
practitioners) hospital care. More
Identifying Opportunities to Improve Transparency and Quality in Laboratory Medicine
Until recently lab quality management programs have focused primarily on test utilization and technical quality assurance. However, in recent years, performance measurement has moved to assessing the quality of laboratory medicine across the spectrum of activities including the pre-analytic phase– procedures from the time the test was ordered until analyzed (e.g., proper test ordered by provider, labeling, or specimen transportation), analytic phase – the analysis of the specimen by automated, semi-automated or manual means; and, post-analytic – all procedures from the time a result was produced in the laboratory to provider interpretation and use... More
National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care
Over the past few years, demand for hospice and palliative care services has grown tremendously. This project will endorse a national consensus framework for discussing and evaluating palliative and hospice care...More
National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Hospital Care: Two Additional Priority Areas, 2005
In 2002-2003, NQF endorsed an initial set of 39 measures in eight priority areas. This project is being undertaken at the request of the CMS in order to supplement that set with measures in two additional priority areas: coordination of care and mortality (acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia)...More
Standardizing a Patient Safety Taxonomy
Although efforts to identify and report information related to patient safety have multiplied, the healthcare system still has no standardized framework for classifying the data that would enable comparisons and analyses of data from across the many public and private reporting systems...More