NQF Collaboration Principles
- Collaborating organizations support NQF’s objective to achieve the highest quality care and best health outcomes for all patients.
- Collaboration provides opportunities to address agreed upon, unmet needs in healthcare or leading healthcare challenges.
- Collaborating organizations honor the voices of patients, clinicians, purchasers, and all others who care about and are affected by health care.
- Collaborating organizations will fully and actively foster the success of any initiative in which they participate.
- The values that govern NQF’s work include independence, transparency, commitment to science and inclusiveness.