NQF Member comments due June 18, 2008 by 6:00 PM ET
Public comments due June 11, 2008 by 6:00 PM ET
Pregnancy and childbirth is the second most common reason for hospital admission. Morbidity and mortality associated with pregnancy and childbirth is substantial and, evidence suggests, is largely preventable through the delivery of high quality perinatal care and adherence to evidence-based guidelines. To date, however, NQF has endorsed very few consensus standards that assess the quality of care for mothers and babies. The purpose of this project is to achieve voluntary consensus on a set of performance measures that can be used to assess the quality of perinatal care in the United States. In March and April 2008, the Perinatal Care Steering Committee reviewed 33 candidate performance standards and recommends 18 for NQF endorsement.
The Steering Committee assisted NQF staff in evaluating the candidate measures against the NQF-endorsedTM measure evaluation criteria of importance, scientific acceptability, usability, and feasibility, as well as standard measure specifications identified by the Committee to achieve harmonization. The detailed measure evaluations and meeting summaries for the Steering Committees are available for Member review only.
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 deadlines. 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 “National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Perinatal Care” and view the Timeline for Consideration of the Measures.
NQF Member comments must be submitted no later than 6:00 pm ET, June 18, 2008.
Supporting documents may be submitted by email to perinatalcare@qualityforum.org with the subject line – “Perinatal Care Project”.