The National Quality Forum has endorsed 36 physician care performance measures, called the National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Ambulatory Care. The standards are the result of consensus of more than 200 healthcare providers, consumer groups, professional associations, purchasers, federal agencies, and research and quality improvement organizations. The measures are "for gauging and publicly reporting the quality of ambulatory care."
From asthma assessment to cholesterol control to pneumonia vaccination, these standards, NQF says, represent measures of structure, process, and outcome that have been linked by evidence to quality of care for ambulatory care.
To read more about the NQF ambulatory care quality measures, go to www.qualityforum.org/ news/prAmbulatory08-04-05final.pdf.
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