This NQF project seeks to identify and endorse specialty clinician level measures for public accountability and quality improvement.
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. Recent initiatives have focused on developing standardized measurement and reporting systems for physician specialties.
NQF reviewed voluntary consensus standards to assess the quality of care provided by specialists in hospital settings in the United States in the areas of stroke and stroke rehabilitation; perioperative prophylaxis of thromboembolic disease and infection; and emergency care, including both patients discharged by the emergency department and patients admitted to the hospital from the emergency department.
This project, like all NQF activities, involves the active participation of representatives from across the spectrum of healthcare stakeholders. The project is guided by a Steering Committee. Agreement around the recommendations will be developed through NQF’s formal Consensus Development Process.
Funding for this project has been provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
For more information, contact Lisa Hines at 202.783.1300 or info@qualityforum.org.