Where does NQF fit in the healthcare quality world?
NQF is one of many organizations working to improve the quality of healthcare in the U.S. NQF has several roles in the quality landscape, include setting national priorities and goals, endorsing measures, and sponsoring various education and outreach activities aimed at facilitating achievement of the national goals. Each of these roles is vital to the quality improvement process and, ultimately, to the creation of a system of increased quality in healthcare. Quality improvement is an ongoing process that involves many different individuals and organizations working in a variety of ways within many different levels in healthcare. Within the process, these individuals and organizations identify goals and priorities, develop measures, evaluate and endorse measures, select measures for implementation, implement measures, evaluate performance, and use data from that evaluation to set new priorities.
