THE NATIONAL QUALITY FORUM: ANNUAL MEETING

在1998年发布的一份报告中，总统的消费者保护和优质医疗保健行业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，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，促进一种共同的方法，以培养全系统提高质量的能力。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的经验和担忧-以及基于证据的“最佳实践”，以提高质量; 3）通过研究在发展衡量护理质量的新方法中的技术问题，将研究与实践联系起来，重点是与发展后的可行性和使用措施有关的问题;以及4）确定与质量措施的发展，测试，实施和报告有关的未来研究的重要领域。第二次年度会议将主要关注NQF战略框架委员会（SFB）的工作。

In a report issued in 1998, the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality Health Care industry proposed creation on 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 systemwide 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 by examining technical issues in the development of new ways of measuring the quality of care, 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. This second annual meeting will focus primarily on the work of the NQF Strategic Framework Board (SFB).