Primary Care and Chronic Illness
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Project Status: Completed
Primary Care and Chronic Illness
The Opportunity
In 2012, approximately half of all U.S. adults had one or
more chronic health conditions and one-quarter of adults had two or more.1 In
the following year, the top three most costly conditions were chronic in
nature.2 The
burden of infectious diseases is also great. Infectious diseases remain a
leading cause of death in the U.S. and account for 3.9 million hospital visits
each year.3
The U.S. spends more than $120 billion annually to treat infectious disease.4 Effective
quality measures are critically important to national efforts to improve prevention
and treatment of chronic and infectious illnesses and healthcare outcomes.
NQF Related Work
Stay Connected
For more information, please contact primarycare@qualityforum.org.
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Chronic disease overview website. https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/overview/index.htm.
Last accessed September 2017.
2 Dieleman J. US spending on personal health care and public health, 1996-2013. JAMA. 2016;316(24):2627-2646.
3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
National Center for Health Statistics FastStats infectious disease website. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/infectious-disease.htm.
Last accessed April 2017.
4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
National Center for Health Statistics FastStats infectious disease website. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/infectious-disease.htm.
Last accessed April 2017.
CMS UPDATE: Public commenting of quality measures is temporarily unavailable, as NQF will no longer serve as the consensus-based entity for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of March 26, 2023.
NQF is working with CMS and the successor contractor to make a smooth transition of the endorsement and maintenance work, which will include further communication to stakeholders regarding this body of work, including public commenting for the fall 2022 measures, after March 26. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Effective March 27, 2023, NQF is no longer the contracted consensus-based entity (CBE) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Battelle will serve as the CMS CBE for the endorsement & maintenance of quality performance measures. Materials posted to this site prior to the fall 2022 measure endorsement cycle will continue to be available to the public. However, any materials for the fall 2022 cycle and beyond can be found on the Battelle Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) website. Click here https://p4qm.org/ for more information.
