National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Prevention and Care of Venous Thromboembolism: Performance Measures

NQF Member comments due January 30, 2008 by 6:00 PM ET Public comments due January 23, 2008 by 6:00 PM ET

Download the Draft Report: “National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Prevention and Care of Venous Thromboembolism: Performance Measures”

This second phase of the project seeks to:

develop and endorse performance measures to assess the quality of care for persons who have developed or are at risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE);
catalyze the adoption and use of the statement of organizational policy, preferred practices, and performance measures in every applicable care setting.

Download Timeline for Consideration of VTE Measures

In October and November of 2007, the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) and Steering Committee reviewed 8 VTE measures and, having combined two of the measures, recommended 7 for NQF endorsement.
The candidate measures were evaluated against the NQF-endorsed™ criteria of importance, scientific acceptability, feasibility, and usability and recommendations provided. The measure evaluations and relevant meeting summaries for the TAP and Steering Committees are available for Member review only.

Pursuant to NQF’s Consensus Development Process, 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 deadlines below. 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 no later than 6:00 pm EST, January 30, 2008 and public comments are due no later than 6:00 pm EST, January 23, 2008. NQF strongly prefers to receive comments through the online comment form.

Download the Draft Report: “National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Prevention and Care of Venous Thromboembolism: Performance Measures”

Alternately, comments may be submitted by email to info@qualityforum.org with the subject line “VTE”