On May 5, 2008 NQF Member primary contacts were sent voting instructions for the draft report National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Clinicians: Additional Performance Measures, 2008.
Voting closes Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 6:00 pm ET
– no exceptions.
All voting is by electronic submission only.
The “en bloc” voting option to approve, disapprove, or abstain from voting on ALL items under consideration. If you choose to vote “en bloc” you may NOT vote on each item under consideration individually. If you vote “en bloc”, any votes on the individual measures will not be considered.
NOTE: This ballot contains four “en bloc” voting options for each of the measure areas: cancer, infectious disease, perioperative and non-MD/DO.
COMMENTS may be submitted by e-mail using a hyperlink in the electronic voting instructions or votingcomments@qualityforum.org.
A sample ballot (for Member internal use only) is available. No hard copy ballots will be accepted or counted.
Additional technical information is provided: STS
risk models; FOTO
data collection instrument and AM
PAC data collection instrument. Revised Voting Documents
The voting draft has been revised based on the comments received
during the review period and consultation with the Steering Committees.
The voting draft document, including a cover memo, the redlined report,
and measure specifications, is available for review here.
Access the table
of coments and comment letters.
Additional information about the voting draft report is available: timeline and measure evaluations reviewed by the Steering Committee.
This project is being conducted under NQF’s Consensus Development Process v 1.8.
Only designated member representatives have been authorized to access the electronic balloting system; if you have questions about the electronic balloting system, please contact your organization’s designated member representative.
In addition, please forward any comments you want to submit with your ballot to votingcomments@qualityforum.org, using the comment submission form, by Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 6:00 pm ET. Please note that “Approve with Comment” votes will be counted as “Disapprove” votes if accompanying comments are not submitted.