The National Quality Forum - Annual Meeting 2002

在1998年发布的一份报告中，总统的医疗保健行业消费者保护和质量咨询委员会建议建立一个自愿的私营部门实体，以制定和实施有效，高效和协调的战略，以确保广泛提供有效和可靠的质量信息，供所有医疗保健利益相关者使用。国家卫生保健质量测量和报告论坛（国家质量论坛，或NQF）成立于1999年，其使命是通过部署一项战略来标准化医疗保健质量数据测量和报告的方法，并确保医疗保健质量数据的广泛可用性，从而提高医疗保健质量。通过精心设计，NQF给予消费者、医疗保健购买者、健康计划和提供者以及质量改进和研究组织平等的发言权。NQF成员共同努力，以促进一个共同的方法，以促进全州的质量改进能力。NQF年会的目的是：1）培养共同的目标感，并制定一个共同的框架，以制定、实施和报告消费者、购买者和医疗保健提供者之间一致的护理质量措施; 2）传播信息，分享有关实施质量措施和循证“最佳实践”的经验和关注，以提高质量; 3）将研究与实践联系起来，重点是与可行性有关的问题和开发后的措施的使用;和4）确定与质量措施的开发，测试，实施和报告有关的未来研究的重要领域。第三次年度会议将主要侧重于国家资格框架项目的状况以及相应共识报告获得批准后的执行和后续行动。还将讨论NQF批准的战略框架委员会报告的后续步骤。

In a report issued in 1998, the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry proposed creation of a voluntary, private sector entity to develop and implement effective, efficient, and coordinated strategies for ensuring the widespread availability of valid and reliable information on quality for use by all healthcare stakeholders. The National Forum for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting (National Quality Forum, or NQF) was established in 1999, with a mission to improve healthcare quality by deploying a strategy to standardize the means by which healthcare quality data are measured and reported, and to ensure that healthcare quality data are widely available. By deliberate design, the NQF gives equal voice to consumers, healthcare purchasers, health plans and providers, and quality improvement and research organizations. Together NQF members work to promote a common approach to foster statewide capacity for quality improvement. The purpose of the NQF Annual Meeting is to: 1) foster a sense of common purpose and develop a shared framework for developing, implementing, and reporting consistent measures of the quality of care across consumers, purchasers, and providers of healthcare; 2) disseminate information and share experiences and concerns about the implementation of quality measures and evidence- based "best practices" to improve quality; 3) link research to practice with an emphasis on issues that relate to feasibility and the use of measures after development; and 4) identify important areas for future research relating to the development, testing, implementation, and reporting of quality measures. The third annual meeting will focus primarily on the status of NQF projects and the implementation and follow up that will result from the approval of the corresponding consensus reports. Next steps will also be discussed for the NQF approved Strategic Framework Board report.