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Information Management and Healthcare Quality - A National Summit
NQF convened, along with the Institute of Medicine, a National Summit on Information Technology and Healthcare Quality in March 2002. This program focused on the state of the nation’s health information infrastructure...More
Reaching the Tipping Point: Measuring and Reporting Quality Using the NQF-Endorsed™ Hospital Care Measures - Proceedings of a National Summit
Together with the National Health Care Purchasing Institute (NHCPI) and support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NQF convened an invitation-only workshop of hospital decision-makers, purchasers, and consumers to address the question, "What would be required to get the NQF-endorsed™ performance measures implemented and the results disclosed?"...More
National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Hospital Care: An Initial Performance Measure Set
While the growing interest in quality measures for hospitals increases the possibilities for measuring and improving hospital quality, it also increases the potential for misdirected or redundant activities, conflicting demands by different interests, and confusion about relevant measures...More
A Comprehensive Framework for Hospital Care Performance Evaluation
This report, developed as part of the NQF project on national voluntary consensus standards for hospital care, established a comprehensive framework and standardized process for hospital quality measurement and reporting, including identifying where research is needed to develop appropriate measures and recommending a process for updating the initial set...More
Safe Practices for Better Healthcare
This project identified a list of 30 evidence-based "safe practices" that should be universally implemented in applicable care settings to reduce the risk of harm resulting from the processes or environments of care...More
Voluntary Consensus Standards for Adult Diabetes Care
The NQF has endorsed as voluntary consensus standards a set of performance measures for adult diabetes care for both accountability and quality improvement purposes...More
A National Framework for Healthcare Quality Measurement and Reporting
In December 1999, the NQF appointed a nine-member Strategic Framework Board (SFB) with a charge propose a national strategy for quality measurement and reporting. This document builds on that work...More
Improving Healthcare Quality for Minority Patients - Proceedings of a Workshop
The need to assess healthcare quality metrics specific to minority populations is particularly acute because of the significant disparities that persist in health and healthcare outcomes for minority populations in the United States...More
Serious Reportable Events in Healthcare
The NQF has identified and endorsed a set of serious preventable adverse events in healthcare that can be used to standardize data collection and reporting of these events within and across states. Previously, standardized definitions and measures of avoidable, serious adverse events did not exist...More