NQF Begins Annual Review of Quality Measures for Federal Programs
Washington, DC —The National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) has begun its annual review of standardized performance measures that the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
View ArticlePhysician, Hospital, and Business Leaders Join NQF Board
Jonathan Perlin, MD, PhD, president of clinical services and chief medical officer of HCA; Jack Resneck, MD, professor and vice chair of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco; and...
View ArticleNQF Endorses Hospital and Post-Acute Care Readmissions Measures
Washington, DC – The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed 30 new and existing hospital and post-acute care (PAC) readmissions measures (PDF). Two PAC measures were adjusted for socioeconomic...
View ArticleNQF Issues National Standards for Patient Education Resources
Washington, DC—The National Quality Forum (NQF) recently issued a set of national standards for decision aids, which are key resources for improving shared decision making between providers and...
View ArticleNew NQF Guide Helps to Assign Accountability for Patients
Washington, DC—As healthcare payers and consumers increasingly seek greater value from healthcare services, determining which physicians or other providers are ultimately responsible for the quality...
View ArticleNQF Names Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil, as New President and CEO
Washington, DC—The National Quality Forum (NQF) Board of Directors has selected Shantanu Agrawal, MD, as the organization’s new president and chief executive officer (CEO). A board-certified emergency...
View ArticleNQFs Measure Applications Partnership Issues Final Measure Recommendations...
Washington, DC – The National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) today submitted recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for 74 performance...
View ArticleMedia Advisory - Telephone Briefing
The National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) is defining new ways to ensure quality measurement is improving healthcare for patients while reducing burden for clinicians...
View ArticleNQFs Measure Applications Partnership Identifies Opportunities to Reduce...
Washington, DC—The National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) is defining new ways to ensure quality measurement is improving healthcare for patients while reducing burden...
View ArticleNQFs 2017 Annual Conference April 4-5: Accelerating the National Agenda for...
Washington, DC—More than 500 leaders from across the healthcare sector, including the federal government, hospitals, healthcare systems, patient and consumer groups, and biopharmaceutical companies,...
View ArticleNQF Honors Planetree Internationals Efforts to Engage Patients and Consumers...
Washington, DC — The National Quality Forum (NQF) today presented its 2017 Consumers and Patients for Quality Award to Planetree International. Founded by a patient in 1978, Planetree was one of the...
View ArticleNQF Statement on Endorsement of Opioid Patient Safety Measures
NQF’s recent endorsement of 11 quality measures of patient safety includes three measures developed by the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) to address the use of opioids at high dosage or from multiple...
View ArticleNQF Initiative to Determine the Impact of Adjusting Healthcare Performance...
Washington, DC—The National Quality Forum’s (NQF) two-year trial to risk adjust certain healthcare performance measures for social risk factors found that this adjustment is feasible, with 17 measures...
View ArticleNQF Statement on Board of Directors Decision Regarding Social Risk Trial
The National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Board of Directors voted unanimously to continue NQF’s groundbreaking work to explore the impact of risk adjusting performance measures for social factors....
View ArticleNQF Examines New Approach to Amplify the Patients Voice in Healthcare Quality...
Washington, DC—A new National Quality Forum (NQF) report evaluates an innovative approach to capture broad input from patients about the healthcare-related issues they care about the most, to inform...
View ArticleMedia Advisory - NQF Telephone Briefing on Telehealth
Two new reports from the National Quality Forum (NQF) provide guidance on advancing health information technology to make healthcare safer and more effective for all Americans. Join NQF and the chairs...
View ArticleNQF Proposes Approaches to Assess, Improve Telehealth Quality and...
Washington, DC—The National Quality Forum (NQF) has issued two new reports that provide national guidance to advance health information technology to make healthcare more effective and safer for all...
View ArticleIndividuals and initiatives advancing patient safety & quality sought for...
The Joint Commission, National Quality Forum accepting nominations through Oct. read more
View ArticleNQFs Measure Applications Partnership Begins New Initiative to Improve Rural...
Washington, DC—The National Quality Forum (NQF) is convening a new Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) workgroup to make recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on...
View ArticleNQF Issues Quality Roadmap for Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Washington, DC—Despite the nation’s advancements in health and medicine, care is still not equally available and accessible across communities, populations, and socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic...
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