Sarah A. Spinler, PharmD, FAHA, FCCP, BCPS has been appointed to the National Quality Forum’s technical advisory panel on cardiovascular patient outcomes. The 10-member advisory panel will review cardiovascular outcome measures that are being considered for NQF endorsement.
NQF is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans by setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.
The cardiovascular technical advisory panel is part of NQF’s current work to identify and endorse measures for public reporting and quality improvement that specifically address patient outcomes of healthcare. The outcome measures will focus on the 20 most common healthcare conditions in the U.S., including cardiovascular conditions. The cardiovascular technical advisory panel is part of a group of numerous advisory panels providing expertise to the steering committee on patient outcomes across all 20 high-impact conditions.
Dr. Spinler is providing expertise on patient outcomes and quality measurement as it relates to cardiovascular care and, as part of the expert panel, will evaluate candidate outcome measures for potential endorsement as national voluntary consensus standards.
NQF’s work to endorse patient outcome measures will continue throughout 2010.
National Quality Forum
The mission of the National Quality Forum is to improve the quality of American healthcare by setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement, endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance, and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs. NQF, a non-profit organization (qualityforum.org) with diverse stakeholders across the public and private health sectors, was established in 1999 and is based in Washington, DC.