CDP Standing Committee Off-Cycle Activities 

About the Project

To address these weaknesses in the CDP, NQF began transitioning to the use of standing committees for CDPs in 2013 with the goal of seating a standing committee for each of the 22 topic areas. These standing committees oversee the various measure portfolios; this oversight function will include evaluating both newly-submitted and previously-endorsed measures against NQF's measure evaluation criteria, identifying gaps in the measurement portfolio, providing feedback on how the portfolio should evolve, and serving on any ad hoc or expedited projects in their designated topic areas.

During the periods in which no measures are being reviewed, or the “off cycle”, a standing committee is available for ad hoc measure reviews, to serve as clinical or technical experts for other standing bodies (e.g., MAP or cross cutting measurement areas like cost and resource use measurement), for collaboration with measure developers on gap filling, and for thoughtful discussion and activities on prospecting for new measures and addressing strategic measurement issues in the topic area. In order to enable ongoing engagement of committee members throughout their two (or three) year terms, NQF will host quarterly, two-hour web meetings or conference calls for each standing committee during the off cycle timeframe as needed.

Topics areas are not limited but may include:

• The Importance of the Measure Applications Partnership (MAP)
• Developer/Committee collaborative
• “A Guide to the Scientific Acceptability criterion”
• Ad-hoc review of measures for endorsement considerations

Related NQF Work

• Submitting Standards

Contact Information

For more information, please contact measuremaintenance@qualityforum.org.