Call for Measures: National Voluntary Consensus Standards For Ambulatory Care Using Clinically Enriched Administrative Data

In this project, NQF will consider quality measures for ambulatory care based on electronic administrative data, enriched by electronic laboratory or pharmacy data or other electronic clinical data, that can provide additional tools to purchasers, health plans, insurers, consumers, clinicians and other stakeholders working to create more feasible approaches to ongoing performance measurement and quality improvement.

NQF will consider candidate performance measures for a wide variety of ambulatory care conditions appropriate for use at the individual clinician, group, health plan, system, and/or community level.  For candidate electronic administrative measures that are similar to current NQF-endorsed measures, harmonization will be addressed.

Any organization or individual may submit measures for consideration.  To be included as part of the initial evaluation, candidate consensus standards must meet the following general criteria:

• be fully developed for use (e.g., research and testing have been completed);
• be open source or in the public domain*;
• have an identified measure steward**; and
• be intended for both public reporting and quality improvement

To submit a measure, please complete the following:

• Measure Submission Form, Version 3.0
• Intellectual Property Agreement

Please note that no material will be accepted without fully executing the attached Intellectual Property Agreement.  All materials not meeting this requirement will be returned to the sender. 

Materials must be submitted electronically via email attachment by 6:00 pm, ET on November 21.  If you have any questions, please contact, Reva Winkler, MD, MPH, at 202.783.1300 or email RWinkler@qualityforum.org .  Thank you for your assistance with this project!

 

*NQF requires any organization submitting a measure for endorsement to execute an intellectual property agreement that addresses disclosure of the measure’s proprietary components, including but not limited to specifications, risk adjustment methodologies, data collection instrument, data collection or analysis software, and database access. For details, please see our Policy on Endorsement of Proprietary Measures.

** NQF requires any measure considered for endorsement to have an identified responsible entity and process to maintain and update the measure on a schedule commensurate with clinical innovation, but at least every 3 years.