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Project Status: Completed
Cardiovascular
The Opportunity
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death
for men and women in the United States. It kills nearly one in four Americans
and costs $312 billion per year, more than 10 percent of annual health
expenditures.1
Considering the overall toll of cardiovascular disease, measures that assess
clinical care performance and patient outcomes are paramount to reducing the
negative impacts of CVD.
NQF Related Work
Stay Connected
For more information, please contact cardiovascular@qualityforum.org.
1
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). 2015
National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report and 5th Anniversary Update
on the National Quality Strategy.
Rockville, MD: AHRQ; 2016. Available at http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqdr15/index.html
CMS UPDATE: Public commenting of quality measures is temporarily unavailable, as NQF will no longer serve as the consensus-based entity for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of March 26, 2023.
NQF is working with CMS and the successor contractor to make a smooth transition of the endorsement and maintenance work, which will include further communication to stakeholders regarding this body of work, including public commenting for the fall 2022 measures, after March 26. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Effective March 27, 2023, NQF is no longer the contracted consensus-based entity (CBE) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Battelle will serve as the CMS CBE for the endorsement & maintenance of quality performance measures. Materials posted to this site prior to the fall 2022 measure endorsement cycle will continue to be available to the public. However, any materials for the fall 2022 cycle and beyond can be found on the Battelle Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) website. Click here https://p4qm.org/ for more information.
