Comment period for this document has closed.
In February and March 2007, NQF Members reviewed the draft report “National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Ambulatory and Hospital Care: Specialty Clinician Performance Measures”. The candidate consensus standards in the draft report are currently in the Member voting stage and measures approved by all four Councils will be considered by the NQF Board of Directors at the May 9, 2007 meeting in Chicago.
As previously noted, evaluations of some measures could not be accomplished within the original timeline. Evaluation of peri-operative surgical site infection measures required additional work with the Technical Advisory Panel. Also, as a result of comments received on the original draft report, the Ambulatory Care Steering Committee recommended an additional gastrointestinal (GI) polyp surveillance measure. These six additional measures are proceeding through NQF’s Consensus Development Process as an addendum to the draft report “National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Ambulatory and Hospital Care: Specialty Clinician Performance Measures” as noted on the timeline below.
The Surgical Site Infections (SSI) TAP assisted NQF staff in evaluating the candidate measures against the NQF-endorsed™ measure evaluation criteria of importance, scientific soundness, feasibility, and usability and provided recommendations to the Physician Hospital Steering Committee. The measure evaluations, SSI TAP meeting summary and conference call summaries for the Steering Committees are available for Member review here.
Pursuant to NQF’s Consensus Development Process v1.7, 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 other individuals 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.
NQF Member comments must be submitted to NQF no later than 6:00 pm EDT, May 16, 2007. NQF strongly prefers to receive comments through the online comment form.
Alternately, comments may be submitted by email (info@qualityforum.org subject line – “ADDENDUM Specialty Clinician comments”); by mail (NQF, 601 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 500 North, Washington, DC 20005); or may be faxed to (202) 783-3434.