NQF Member comments due March 28, 2008 by 6:00 PM ET
Public comments due March 21, 2008 by 6:00 PM ET
To date, NQF has endorsed 141 consensus standards focusing on the clinician practice in a wide variety of conditions, including asthma/respiratory disease, bone and joint conditions, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, mental health and substance use, and stroke; cross-cutting areas such as medication management, geriatrics, emergency care, obesity and prevention, immunization and screening; specialty areas including cardiac surgery, eye disease, and prenatal care; and patient experience with care instruments.
This draft report presents additional 57 performance measures in the following areas:
Four Steering Committees evaluated more than 100 candidate measures using the NQF-endorsedTM measure evaluation criteria of importance, scientific soundness, feasibility, and usability. The measure evaluations and meeting summaries summarizing the Steering Committee deliberations, discussions with measure developers and recommendations are only available for Member review.
The draft report contains an appendix with the measure specifications. Additional technical information is provided: STS risk models; FOTO data collection instrument and AM PAC data collection instrument.
Pursuant to the CDP, this draft document, along with the accompanying material, is being provided for purposes of review and comment only—not voting. You may post your comments and view the comments of others using the navigation menu at left.
NQF will post and take into consideration only those comments received by the above deadline(s). NQF reserves the right to identify and remove any objectionable content. NQF is not responsible for the views and opinions expressed in posted comments.
Download a PDF of the “National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Clinicians: Additional Performance Measures, 2008, a timeline for consideration of the measures, and NQF Clinician-Level measures endorsed to date.
Addendum Comment Period: Candidate consensus standards have been added to this comment period. Access the addendum chapter and timeline for consideration. Comment on these measures.
NQF Member comments must be submitted no later than Thursday, March 28, 2008, 6:00 pm, ET. NQF strongly prefers to receive comments through the online comment form.
Alternately, comments may be submitted by email to info@qualityforum.org with the subject line – “Clinician Level Measures”; by mail to NQF, 601 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 500 North, Washington, DC 20005; or via fax to (202) 783-3434.