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NQF endorses voluntary consensus standards for ambulatory care
Ambulatory Surgery Reimbursement Update, August 9, 2005
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has announced its endorsement of a set of National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Ambulatory Care, intended to provide a standardized set of measure for gauging and publicly reporting the quality of ambulatory care, according to a press release from the NQF.
The measures could be used by Congress to eventually develop pay-for-performance guidelines for physicians under Medicare.
The standards-designed with the consensus of 260 healthcare providers, consumer groups, professional associations, purchasers, federal agencies, and research and quality improvement organizations-are physician focused. They include 36 performance measures and three recommendations.
The standards are the outcome of the second phase of NQF's Ambulatory Care Project, designed to identify a set of ambulatory care standards from a set of measures submitted by three research and quality improvement organizations.
"These standards represent a measure of structure, process, and outcome that have been linked by evidence to quality of care for ambulatory care," according to the release.
To read the NQF's statement, click here.
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