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NATIONAL CONSENSUS NATIONAL CONSENSUS STANDARDS FOR PHYSICIAN STANDARDS FOR PHYSICIAN
PERFORMANCE: ROUND 1PERFORMANCE: ROUND 1
Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., M.P.H.President and CEO
National Quality Forum
August 22, 2005
Presentation Overview
Provide some context for physician performance standards
Provide an overview of the NQF Ambulatory Care PM Project:
What has occurred to date?What is forthcoming?
THE IDEA OF HAVING STANDARDS FOR PHYSICIAN PERFORMANCE IS NOT NEW
“If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife and cure it,…, he shall receive ten shekels in money.
If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him,…, his hands shall be cut off.”
Code of Hammurabi, 1870 BC
The Quest for Healthcare QualityThe Quest for Healthcare Quality
TODAY’S INCREASED ATTENTION TO HEALTHCARE QUALITY IS
BEING DRIVEN BY AN UNPRECEDENTED CONFLUENCE
OF FORCES
Healthcare Quality Improvement Healthcare Quality Improvement Driving ForcesDriving Forces
1. Knowledge of deficiencies2. Rising healthcare expenditures3. Purchaser activism 4. Consumerism5. Regulation and accreditation
A CROWDED FIELD
Who are the “players” in the Who are the “players” in the performance measurement performance measurement and quality improvement and quality improvement
game?game?
A partial list of the Alphabet Soup of PM/QI-Related Organizations
JCAHO NCQA CMSIOM AHRQ FDA NQF CDC QIOsHQA GAO PCPIOPM NBCH ACQALeapfrog MedPAC ACMQ IHI WBGH PBGHQUIC UHC ABMS
Lots of Signals…..
BUT
Little Direction
Lots of Signals…..
BUT
Little Direction
There is need for a single national There is need for a single national entity to be the steward for entity to be the steward for
healthcare performance healthcare performance measurement and quality measurement and quality
improvement.improvement.
The The NATIONAL QUALITY FORUMNATIONAL QUALITY FORUM
(NQF)(NQF)
NQFNQF--ENDORSED CONSENSUS ENDORSED CONSENSUS STANDARDSSTANDARDS
Appoint Steering CommitteeAppoint Steering Committeeand Technical Advisory Panels and Technical Advisory Panels
Identify (open call) and Evaluate measures, etc.;
Propose candidate voluntaryconsensus standard (VCS)
Review and Revise
Board of Directors,NQF Staff & Management
Member Councils,Non-member External Entities
Vote by Member Councils
Member Councils,Member Organizations,
Public
Steering Committeewith NQF Staff
(any entity can proposemeasures, etc., for
consideration
NQF ( nominationsfrom membership and public)
Member Organizations
Approved by AllMember Councils
Review and Revisionof unapproved
VCS
Member Councils,Member Organizations,
Public
Repeat Vote
Approved by 0 or 1 Council(no further action)
Approved by at least 2 Councils
Board of Directors Vote
Members and Nonmembersdirectly and materially affected
by VCS
Appeals of Board-endorsed VCS
NQF-Endorsed Voluntary Consensus Standard
Board of Directors
Conceptualize and Plan Project
Review and Revisionof unapproved
VCS
NQFNQF Consensus Development Process
NQF National Consensus Standards:Patient Safety
Patient Safety Strategic Priorities (2001)
Serious Reportable Adverse Events (2002)
Safe Practices (2003)
Standardized Patient Safety Taxonomy (2005)
Improved Medication Use Recommendations (2005)
Improved Informed Consent Process (2005)
NQF National Consensus Standards: Institutions/Settings of Care
Acute Care Hospital National Performance Measures
Initial Set (2003)Nursing Care PMs (2004)Cardiac Surgery PMs (2004)Coordination of Care PMs (2005)Mortality for AMI, CHF and CAP (2005)HCAPHS (2005)
NQF National Consensus Standards: Institutions/Settings of Care
Nursing Home Care Performance Measures (2002, 2004)
Home Care PMs (2005)
Palliative and Hospice Care Framework (2005)
Ambulatory Care (2004-2008)
Dialysis Centers/ESRD (2006)
NQF National Consensus Standards: Conditions/Populations
Diabetes (2002, 2005)
Cancer Care Quality Measures (2004-2007)
Deep Venous Thrombosis (2005-2007)
Child Healthcare PMs (?2006)
Behavioral Healthcare PMs (2005-2006)
NQF National Consensus Projects
National Priorities for Healthcare Quality Measurement and Reporting
15 Healthcare conditions priorities
5 Process of care priorities
2 Infrastructure priorities
NATIONAL CONSENSUS NATIONAL CONSENSUS STANDARDS FOR AMBULATORY STANDARDS FOR AMBULATORY
CARECARE
NQF National Consensus Standards: Ambulatory Care Project
Phase I (2004) – Identify priority areas
Phase II (2005) – Expedited consensus of existing ambulatory care PMs
Phase III (2005-2008) – Flesh out all 12 priority areas; four cycles
National Consensus Standards for Ambulatory Care: Phase I - Priority Areas
Patient experience with care Coordination of care Asthma Prevention, including immunization Medication management Ischemic heart diseaseDiabetesHypertensionDepressionObesity
National Consensus Standards for Ambulatory Care: Additional Priority
Areas
Prenatal care
Bone conditions
National Consensus Standards for Ambulatory Care: Phase II
36 physician-focused PMs endorsed in seven priority areas (8/3/05)
6 measures will undergo a second round of voting
2 measures not endorsed will be re-considered in Phase 3
NQF-EndorsedTM
Ambulatory Care Consensus Standards
Asthma/Respiratory Illness (4)Behavioral Health/Depression (3)Bone Conditions (2)Heart Disease—CAD(10), CHF (7)Hypertension (2)Prenatal Care (2)Prevention, Immunization, and Screening (6)
NQF-EndorsedTM
Ambulatory Care Consensus Standards
• Asthma/Respiratory Illness
– Asthma assessment
– Asthma: pharmacologic therapy
– Appropriate treatment for children with upper respiratory infection
– Appropriate testing for children with pharyngitis
NQF-EndorsedTM
Ambulatory Care Consensus Standards
• Behavioral Health/Depression– Optimal practitioner contacts for
medication management– Effective acute phase treatment– Effective continuation phase treatment
• Bone Conditions– Osteoarthritis: assessment for use of
anti-inflammatory or analgesic over-the-counter medications
– Osteoarthritis: functional and pain assessment
NQF-EndorsedTM
Ambulatory Care Consensus Standards
• Heart Disease—Coronary artery disease– Symptoms and activity– Cholesterol screen– Lipid profile– Drug therapy for lowering low-density lipoprotein
(LDL) cholesterol– Cholesterol control– LDL cholesterol level– Anti-platelet therapy– Beta blocker therapy–prior myocardial infarction– ACEI/ARB therapy– Smoking cessation and smoking cessation
intervention
NQF-EndorsedTM
Ambulatory Care Consensus Standards
• Heart Disease—Congestive heart failure– Left ventricular function (LVF) assessment– Weight measurement– Assessment of clinical symptoms of volume
overload– Assessment of activity level– Beta blocker therapy– ACEI/ARB therapy– Warfarin therapy for patients with atrial
fibrillation
NQF-EndorsedTM
Ambulatory Care Consensus Standards
• Hypertension– Plan of care– Controlling high blood pressure
• Prenatal Care– Anti D immune globulin– Screening for human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV)
NQF-EndorsedTM
Ambulatory Care Consensus Standards
• Prevention, Immunization, and Screening– Tobacco use and tobacco cessation– Advising smokers to quit, discussing
smoking cessation medication, and discussing smoking cessation strategies
– Discussing urinary incontinence and receiving urinary incontinence treatment
– Flu shot for older adults and flu shot for adults ages 50-64 years
– Influenza vaccination– Pneumonia vaccination
Phase II Measures in 2nd Round of Voting
Use of appropriate medications for people with asthmaCoronary artery disease: Beta-blocker treatment after a heart attackChildhood immunizationBreast cancer screeningColorectal cancer screeningCervical cancer screening
National Consensus Standards for Ambulatory Care: Phase III
Cycle 1 (Fall 2005): care coordination, medication management, obesity, asthma, hypertension, prevention
Cycle 2 (Spring 2006): patient experience with care, heart disease, bone conditions, prenatal care, behavioral health, diabetes
National Consensus Standards for Ambulatory Care: Phase III
Cycle 3 (2006-2007): special ambulatory settings of care (i.e., ambulatory surgical centers)
Cycle 4 (2007-2008): development of index/composite measures
National Consensus Standards for Ambulatory Care: Project Deliverables
Sets of endorsed consensus standards Recommendations for implementation and
research issues for each set.Commissioned background paper on barriers to
small group (< 5), provider-level implementationIndex(es)/composite(s) for ambulatory care
measurement and reporting.Workshop to guide ambulatory care
measurement research, development, and testing