National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Emergency Care – Phase II: Hospital-based Emergency Department Care

NQF Member comments due July 2, 2008 by 6:00 PM ET
Public comments due June 25, 2008 by 6:00 PM ET

In July 2007, NQF began a multi-phase project to evaluate the quality of care received in the emergency department. During Phase I (November 2007), NQF endorsed 12 national voluntary consensus standards for emergency care related to emergency department transfers. As part of Phase II, this draft report presents 10 performances measures which address timeliness, access, communication, care coordination and efficiency in hospital-based emergency departments.

Eighteen Steering Committees evaluated 20 candidate measures using the NQF-endorsed™ measure evaluation criteria of importance, scientific soundness, feasibility, and usability. The measure evaluations and meeting summary summarizing the Steering Committee deliberations, discussions with measure developers and recommendations are available for Member review only.

The draft report contains an appendix with the measure specifications.

Pursuant to the CDP, this draft document, along with the accompanying material, is being provided for purposes of review and comment only—not voting. You may post your comments and view the comments of others using the navigation menu on the left.

NQF will post and take into consideration only those comments received by the above deadline(s). NQF reserves the right to identify and remove any objectionable content. NQF is not responsible for the views and opinions expressed in posted comments.

Download a PDF of the “National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Emergency Care – Phase II: Hospital-based Emergency Care” and view the Timeline for Consideration of the Measures.

NQF Member comments must be submitted no later than 6:00 pm ET, Wednesday, July 2, 2008.

Supporting documents may be submitted by email to ed@qualityforum.org with the subject line – “Hospital-based ED Measures”.