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Foreword by Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, MBA
Paperback, 42 pages
April 2007
This report, available only in electronic format, can be downloaded for free below.
In 2003, a milestone was reached when the National Quality Forum endorsed and published 39 voluntary consensus standards for hospital care in 8 priority areas. Subsequent hospital-focused consensus projects have addressed areas such as nursing-sensitive care, cardiac surgery care, patients’ perceptions of hospital care (HCAHPS®), venous thromboembolism, and, most recently, breast and colorectal cancer care.
However, there continue to be considerable gaps in the information available on the quality of hospital care. During a series of “listening sessions” convened by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, additional areas were identified for which standardized, publicly reported performance measures were urgently needed. One of the areas identified was pneumonia mortality.
This report identifies two additional NQF-endorsed™ consensus standards for hospital care—inpatient and 30-day pneumonia mortality—bringing to 83 the number of performance measures NQF has endorsed for public reporting of hospital quality.